Cards of Thanks and Obituary Rates Noted
The notice outlines charges for Cards of Thanks at 5fc each and obituaries at $1 per obituary with an additional 5c per line for poetry. It lists applicable rates and billing details for readers.
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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1919
Page
2
The notice outlines charges for Cards of Thanks at 5fc each and obituaries at $1 per obituary with an additional 5c per line for poetry. It lists applicable rates and billing details for readers.
Excerpts describe academic figures discussing activism and socialism, with mentions of DePauw University hires, Clark University links, and Lenox College in Hopkinton. Remarks cover cooperation over class privilege, fame of the nonpartisan league, and wartime German atrocities cited by professor Zeuch.
The notice lists the office at 13 East Walnut Street near the post office and the residence at 505 Elm Street for Dr. R. H. Richards.
Dr and Mrs W W Lockwood and three sons depart Tuesday for Shanghai where he serves as Y M C A secretary. They travel via Chicago and Vancouver and sail September 4, arriving in Shanghai after visiting Greencastle and the Towns on South Locust street. The three boys will enroll in Shanghai public school.
Greencastle residents face a sugar shortage with less than 100 pounds in town and two pounds per person weekly. Merchants say shipments from larger cities are unavailable and outsiders seeking sugar are turned away. Local cante loaves from Will Wetz are promoted.
The text notes a congressional tactic of keeping the committee in session to pressure bills, with majority members pushing tariffs on products from their own districts and no sign of relief from this approach.
Wrigley’s Spearmint Number One and Two aeroplanes tour eight states visiting 150 cities carrying gum to local distributors. Parachute drops carry gum packages and two free ride tickets. tours span the Middle West and South over four months with John N. Hammond directing and pilots from air services.
Evangelist Grose, at the Nazarene district assembly in Alexandria Indiana, will remain until Thursday and conduct three services starting tonight at 7 30 in the hall over the Browning grocery store. Everyone is invited to attend.
The London Chronicle recalls a Copenhagen summer spectacle where visitors descend to a cool basement for a strawberry feast. Piles of berries, cream, sugar, and low prices create a memorable, nearly perfect Danish treat unique to Denmark’s capital.
The sketch traces early mankind’s move from animal rudiments to reason guiding action. It views departure from nature’s guardianship as transition to freedom. The author questions whether humans gain or lose from this shift, framing it as progress toward perfection despite imperfect initial efforts.
A Springfield Union snippet describes a young woman wearing feathered hat trim secured with curl papers. She explains nightly use of flexible spiral curl papers to keep the arrangement neat, saying the feathers look fattest and prettiest after removing the papers.
The article lists historic eateries across Europe with long founding dates. Cafe de Terence in Paris exceeds two centuries, Mitre hotel in Oxford is said to be five centuries old, Rathskeller in Bremen holds famed Rhine and Moselle wines since 1405, Bratwurstglocklein in Nuremberg linked to a church has served roast sausages since 1400, and Capello Nero in Venice traces its origins to an earlier year.
In 1777 on July 1 Congress voted Lafayette the position of major general in the American army. He arrived in spring 1777 with his own ship funds, served as a volunteer in Washington's forces, declining pay, and was soon promoted to major general at the age of twenty.
The passage reflects on how life is built from small acts and the need to be faithful in little duties to progress toward a higher path. It notes we cannot foresee consequences yet must choose right over wrong, leaving outcomes to fate.
Busy women seek leisure to unleash talent, but real ability finds time despite duties. A quote from Exchange argues true talent will develop even under pressure.
A department store shopper overhears a cash girl joke that a man’s mother feeds him garlic so she can locate him in the dark. The remark appears in Harpers Magazine.
Tallor confronts a debtor demanding payment as the impecunious author declares a doctor ordered break from writing for three months. The exchange highlights financial stress and a temporary cessation of literary work.
A large sale listing includes a 7-foot McCormick binder, two McCormick mowing machines, one Deering mower, one sulky hay rake, one hay tedder, two J I Case riding brakes, two walking plows, two disk harrows, two spike tooth harrows, three riding cultivators, a 5-hoe wheat drill, an end-gate seeder, a Black Hawk corn planter, two corn shelters, one Rude manure spreader, one Columbus wagon, one Moline wagon, two old wagons, blacksmith tools, a 2 HP gasoline engine, a maple syrup evaporator, sugar tanks, a Primrose cream separator, cream can, a hay frame, two gravel beds, three sets team harness, three sets common harness, and many more items.
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