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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1921
Page
2
The Herald states charges for Cards of Thanks and obituaries. Cards of Thanks cost a page rate per note while obituaries incur a gate fee per notice plus a per line poetry surcharge. Policies cover all such notices in print.
The article recounts how Sir Charles Hallé could play any Bach Beethoven or Chopin from memory and how Campanini Liszt and others relied on recollection. It notes Hallé’s Bach and Beethoven cycle and Liszt’s memory for both major works and small details with anecdotes of lost scores recovered from memory.
The Bank of France protects its treasure with elaborate medieval style defenses. Every evening masons seal the strong room then flood the vaults with water, making access require diving gear and dynamite. Modern weapons and alarms are praised but water barriers remain the chief guard.
At a gallery Leighton overhears a critic calling his painting Helen of Troy horrid. He reveals it was his own work and musters a polite reply. The critic stiffens, then concedes she should not mind public opinion.
A fisherman recalls a 30 year old beach wreck and the moral choice around a dead man found in the boat. Ole and Hans debate taking the boots, decide to keep them, and later ensure the beach-washer is buried with respect, prompting a fisherman’s vow to remember him. The tale ends with the magistrate briefly examining the survivor’s belongings and a communal grave prayer.
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