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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1924
Page
4
A Field Afar excerpt cites two missioners arguing over Chinese business thrift and cunning. It contrasts sharp profit focus with generous fortune losing in card games. The piece notes a pervasive Chinese attitude toward price, risk, and gambling among all ages.
Oldtime customs describe mixed bathing becoming allowed at several British seaside resorts, with bans on same sex beaches and bathing machines long gone. Women dressed in dark gowns went to sea at scheduled times while men stayed indoors, and bells signaled bathing times and departures as changes to Puritan norms emerged.
In the Westminster abbey chapter house a restored floor reveals a treasure of medieval tile work with portraits of Henry III and other notables. The article explains the tile making process with red clay pressed in carved molds filled with white clay before glazing and firing.
Octavus Roy Cohen, Birmingham quote on teaching a Alabama colored boy to speak pure English ends with the boy correcting the phrase weren t you to aren t it. The remark highlights dialect teaching and language contrasts.
The most important visitor from the skies ever to fall to earth has been discovered in the North African desert. It is an enormous mass of meteoric stone with a volume near 10,000 cubic meters. French geologist M. La Croix studied the meteorite and says it contains some rare metals.
Silk garments styled to resemble wild animal skins appear in Europe. Designers favor leopard and tiger motifs, using colored threads to imitate fur. The look signals a daring trend embraced by fashionable circles across cities.
Cornelia Blivin, heiress to a fortune, declares she will marry without her father’s approval. She foils his plans by choosing Casper White as her intended despite Walter Reynolds’s objections and Mabel Landers’s interference. Walter confronts Cornelia about her spoiled ways.
An elderly man visiting his daughter in San Jose is educated on Spanish pronunciation of J and H. He then misreads Pajaro as Pajaro informing Pajaro, while thinking the town Watsonville, prompting his railway ticket confusion.
Switzerland builds a highly modern prison system with near self sufficiency and abandons solitary confinement. In Neuchatel region a drained marsh becomes a 2500 acre agricultural penal colony, created by convict labor over 50 years turning unusable land into productive farmland.
The Pullman News notes 116 large conventions and special gatherings from June through November 1924. June 57 extra cars, July 16, August 8, September 20, October 11, November 4. Extra cars were needed for the Kentucky Derby May 17, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine June 2–5, Republican convention 180 extras, and Democratic convention 200.
The French press questions the removal and chemical treatment of Anatole France brain after embalming. Professor Guillaume, who examined the brain, says it is exceptionally fine with deep fissures and pronounced convolutions. The practice recalls a prior instance at Tours involving a decapitated criminal head.
The suspension bridge between Philadelphia and Camden will require at least 25 000 miles of wire for its two towers. Engineers race to complete the Delaware River crossing as steel strands rise between the riverbanks.
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