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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1919
Page
3
Alonzo Crawley’s Fox Ridge garage burned to the ground last evening trapping an Overland Touring car inside. Cause unknown but likely engine overheating and oil catching fire. Insurance partially covers the loss. Local notes include medical, social, and civic items from Indianapolis.
A period advertisement promotes Dr. Carter’s K. B. Tea as a gentle health aid. It claims two weeks of use improves blood and liveliness, helps liver and bowels, ends bilious headaches, and suits children’s digestion, urging druggists for the product.
Call 716 for stock hauling, moving hogs or household items. Ads list used cars including Buick and Chevrolet roadsters, farm loans, real estate buyers, Cox & Sellers Chevrolet stock, county wood for sale, dishwasher wanted, denatured alcohol for radiators, fire insurance at 85 percent, and a office position with dictation duties.
Abstracts of title offered by Wm. B. Vestal with Dobbs and Vestal real estate in Greencastle Indiana. Federal Farm Loans at 5 percent for farms, city property, and insurance through Seefoots Brothers Realty Co.
Local shop Dobbs Bros on North Side at 531 East Anderson Street offers fresh pork beef and a selection of oils tires grease and batteries. The listing notes Taeprone White 680 as part of the contact or pricing details.
Brown and Moffett of Greencastle Indiana acknowledge a two thousand dollar life claim payment from Guarantee Fund Life Association Omaha to Nellie Davis of Bainbridge Indiana. Policy purchased May 4 1916. Davis died November 20 1919, proofs filed November 29 1919, payment made the same day. Administrator J E Coffman expresses thanks.
An advertisement touts Begby's Mustarine as a modern blisterless mustard plaster for neuralgia neuritis lumbago rheumatism and other aches. It claims rapid action for chest colds sore throat tonsillitis pleurisy and deep coughs and notes its use during influenza with high heat content without blistering.
A vivid Atlantic Monthly portrait shows a German burgermeister in a cobbled town near Coblenz who, after American officers refuse to threaten, secures orders by using a parade of broom and shovel squads. The episode ends with the town under his guidance and the Ortskommandantur yielding to routine.
Two Irishmen in Glasgow read a shop window sign reading Butter Buotter But ter and joke that the extra strokes are for shillelhns to show it's Irish butter.
Serious consideration is given to creating a commerce faculty at London University with a target of 2 500 000 dollars to establish courses scholarships traveling clerkships buildings and a workshop. The move aims to expand higher commercial training and professional education through a new faculty.
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