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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1919
Page
3
Two Vienna physicians reported dire hunger in the city at a famine council meeting in London. They said Vienna is virtually blockaded, coal scarce, and industry collapsing, while Budapest faces worse prospects as farmers sell cattle to avert seizure.
Local social life is sketched with Mrs F G Gilmore hosting the Bridge Club on Vine Street and the Penelope Club meeting with Mrs Charles Gardner. Sporadic updates note weather returning to 10 above, theater trips in Indianapolis, and visits across Terre Haute Bloomington and Lafayette. Reports include a chimney fire at Tri Delt house, train service resuming on the Monon, and several residents traveling or visiting relatives.
Closing out sale of personal property on a farm 2 miles northwest of Putnamville and 1 mile north of State Farm begins at 10 30 a m. Items include two head horses three cows five hogs hay grain farm implements bees and miscellaneous equipment with six month credit on sums over five dollars and cash discount over five dollars Dinner served by Ladies Aid Auctioneers and clerk listed.
Local classified column lists hauling and moving services for 60 hogs per load and household moves, used autos including Buick and Chevrolet roadsters, exclusive sales territory for Blue Bird typewriter ribbons, pork product offers, denatured alcohol for radiators, and real estate and business opportunities across central Indiana. Also notes a job for a news carrier and an office work applicant with dictation skills.
Abstracts of title and real estate services advertised by Dobbs & Vestal at Vestal office Greencastle Indiana. Client invited to discuss loans and property details with Christie’s representatives.
Dobbs Bros on North Side advertise Chevrolet cars including several four nineties 1919 models for sale. Wm M. Randel lists county wood for stove or furnace at phone 716. Mohawk tires promise over ten thousand miles of service with a five thousand mile guarantee from Wells and Michaels at 118 120 Jackson Street.
An apparent classified blurb urges readers to buy guaranteed Blue Bird Brana with a promise of delivering a typewriter ribbon and carbon paper for owners. The offer asks readers to send $1.
The court sentenced Sherwood to two to five years in the State Prison after he admitted this morning that he was 18 years old, not 16 as he initially claimed.
A fragmentary line critiques how some people draw ethical conclusions from others misfortunes, suggesting a readiness to condemn without full understanding. The remark hints at a judgmental attitude and calls for caution in moral assessments.
An 1890 death of Jack the baboon is described in The Natural History of South Africa. For nine years he acted as understudy to a legless signalsman on the Graaff-Reinet line. He wheeled him in a lorry, tended the garden, and operated railway levers without error. A gentleman recounted Jack adjusting a trolley and returning a forgotten walking stick and key to his master.
A yearlong anti tuberculosis effort in France funded by the Rockefeller Foundation has seen three traveling exhibits and lecturer groups visit ten departments and 141 towns of 3000+ population. Over 2,000,000 printed items were distributed nationwide, with French creators producing vivid materials that set a new standard for public health education.
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