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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1924
Page
2
Subscribers missing evening copies should call Herald Office at phone 65 or Paul McEvoy at 360-L. Reports of irregular delivery are appreciated. 9e 18 38e 52¢
A narrator describes a bass in one section striking minnows through a glass partition until three days pass with bruises. The naturalist removes the minnows and the bass swims around without striking. The tale ends with a moral.
Honolulu notes recount the Kipuka Puaulu forest near Kilauea as a haven for native Hawaiian birds. Charles Kraebel describes species including the apapane iwi elepaio amakihi and mamo, their habits, and the impact of extinction from habitat loss and cats.
A British pilot and observer in McClure's recount a daring night raid that destroyed a Denis-St Westrem Gotha airfield and several planes. The mission interrupted London raids for weeks, as Red Whiteman and Teddy Parsons attacked from the darkness.
In Berlin the acting profession faces hardship with about six in every thousand actors out of work this fall. Many playhouses are shut, and the film industry in dolrums mirrors the stage downturn across the city.
A French scientist wired copper plates to trees and the earth to measure electrical currents with a galvanometer. Connecting three trees amplified the output, and two buried copper plates six feet apart powered a small lamp. Commercial viability remains to be tested.
The Department of Agriculture notes sugar from cane was known in China 2000 years before Europe. Greek physicians called sugar Indian salt and honey from reeds. Traders in the Indies carried sugar with spices and perfumes, but early uses were medicinal and dietary introduction met with suspicion as heating and lung effects and possible apoplexy worries.
A Portland Maine man named Alexander Comen owns a clock refusing daylight saving. Last spring he set the watch one hour ahead but it fell back to standard time after a few days. He reset it again, and the pattern repeated, with no further adjustment.
A rat entered a distributing drum at the Pasadena plant of the Houston Lighting and Power Company and caused a short circuit. Workmen spent about thirty minutes removing the charred body of the rat from the burned vines amid the incident in Houston Heights.
On a mountain honeymoon trip the bride's mother accompanies the couple. The groom cries out that she has fallen over a cliff. The bride asks about her condition, and the groom jokes that she has not stopped yet, in a lighthearted but risky moment from The American Legion Weekly.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a classroom moment on the start of the Thirty Years War with a student question about how soldiers were recruited for multi decade terms. The brief reflects how history teaching framed long conflicts and enlistment in early modern Europe.
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