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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
2
The Greencastle Herald published daily except Sundays at 17 and 19 S Jackson Street. Cards of Thanks are charged at 50 cents each and the paper is mailed as second class mail matter at Greencastle post office under Charles J Arnold, proprietor.
Wilkinson vents anger at his doctor and complains of misdiagnosis and unnecessary home confinement. He worries about peritonitis or pneumonia and presses for a specialist while his wife questions treatment and a sudden engagement story unfolds nearby.
A Chinese grocer Fong Tay raged after threats to chase away a spirit, triggering a chaotic scene with apples, peas, and vegetables spilling onto the sidewalk. He fled after the incident, leaving the shop in disarray and a battered Joss in the inner room. Two boys who had played with fish hooks fled in fear. The landlord later found the tenant missing and pondered the scene.
A Mrs Burtonby laments that a "nice man" is a myth in her world as she recounts her husband’s excessive generosity and misadventures. She jokes that marriage to a ward boss or a loan shark would be wiser than to a “nice man” who spoils others while draining finances.
A quip of a suitor asks for the lady's fortune and jokes that his own is small, meant to flatter yet reveals humorous vanity in a flirtatious exchange.
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