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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1919
Page
4
Columbus, a hard working boy, recalls a birthday egg that sparked a family farm rise. Years later he meets Isabella again, the girl who inspired the act, and discovers love as his life circles back to where it began. The tale follows devotion, resilience, and the turning point from poverty to prosperity.
Hundreds of British ex-officers seek new combat roles abroad. Russia calls for technically skilled instructors, with pay around $50 a month, and Estonia, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia offer posts as foreign officers. Poland pays captain 800 marks and lieutenant 600, with leave and medical care.
The secret police service of Copenhagen solved a months old mystery about people crossing Schleswig border on passports not issued by German authorities. Refugees were prominent German Spartacist leaders aided by Danish bolshevik supporters who formed a bureau making false passports and supplied them to Spartacist friends for return. The Danish organization allegedly received large sums from the Spartacists.
A simple DIY water filter uses a large garden pot with the bottom hole blocked by sponge and a few inches of powdered charcoal. Fill with water and allow it to filter into a tub below, supported by sticks. Change charcoal every three months and replace the sponge several times yearly.
A school teacher asks her class to define the jungle. A bright boy rises with importance and declares the jungle is where the circus lives, in a playful interpretation of the story about a jungle setting for young strollers.
An emaciated looking visitor entered a Century company counter and offered stories for editors before leaving. The incident is noted by William W. Ellsworth in A Golden Age of Authors, marking the Century company’s loss of Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Dead Sea region holds ample bitumen that can be gathered and prepared for road making at lower costs than current Near East and Europe supplies. It can be applied efficiently using standard tar spraying equipment.
A Tasmanian mammal species is described with females laying eggs and young that hatch in a manner like birds. The creature is about porcupine size, densely spined, with a white horn beak and a slender nose.
The text argues that a receding chin often signals weakness or discouragement in men and women but cautions against judging a person by chin alone. It notes possible counterbalancing traits and stresses nuanced interpretations.
Describes pouring a liquid over charred documents to rehydrate and dry into a tough transparent coating that reveals printing. Notes that bank notes and other papers charred have been treated successfully.
In De Beers diamond fields a black miner recently swallowed 21 diamonds totaling 337 carats. Values ranged from 150 to 500 dollars per stone, making the meal cost mine owners about 105 six. An X ray is now used on miners as they leave each day.
Petty recalls her envy as she mentions her baby brother’s bald head and calls him a lucky shampooless kiddie. The quip reveals her grievance about having her hair shampooed gone public in a family moment.
In Mardh Luck Jacckie attended a birthday dinner at our house. He enjoyed the first courses but sighed at dessert and admitted he was running out of appetite.
The Railroad Administration reports about 19,000 of 100,000 freight cars remain to be built. From October 18 to 25 an average of 193 new cars were placed in service daily, with nearly 200 cars built each day.
A practical home tip suggests soaking an old cork in boiling water for fifteen minutes to make it fit any bottle. This method uses heat to soften the cork, allowing it to seal containers of various sizes.
The article states rats cause about 200 million dollars in yearly damage in the United Kingdom, a figure that grows with population. It notes the annual cost is substantial and widely cited.
In a report on labor tensions a prison officers strike looms and several inmates currently serving sentences have volunteered to join in sympathy actions if carried out in future.
Sir Jay Lankester says a Denham discovery of a mammoth skull and tusk is about 70 000 years old. The find highlights ancient life in England and prompts questions about Ice Age fauna in the region.
In the three months ending September 30, New Orleans shipped 1336 hogs and 81 cattle to Havana, Cuba. Hogs were for slaughter while cattle were mainly Holstein dairy stock. Prospects point to broader shipments to Mediterranean and South American ports. New York meanwhile sent 1252 cattle to Antwerp and various horses, cows, and mules to London, Havre, Bermuda, Trinidad, and the British West Indies.
The Gulf Stream is an ocean current with a width that varies from 45 to 100 miles and a course that changes slightly over time. Popular usage often extends the name to much of the north Atlantic drift current.
From the Keystone Philadelphia Pa. a note on advertising philosophy emphasizes advertising to attract buyers rather than to boast. The piece contrasts aggressive advertising with a selfish promotional approach, suggesting steady ads draw more customers to a store.
An authority notes farms commonly earn at least fifty dollars per season from trapping as fall work winds down. He argues trapping is pleasant for farmers and boys and yields pure profit beyond trap setting and tending time.
Johnnie watches a maid stretch his shrunken sweater and returns to find his kitten now stretched to full length. He proclaims he has learned how cats grow by stretching themselves, celebrating the surprising change.
The article traces the expression down in the dumps to a mythical Egyptian king Dumpps who built a pyramid and died of melancholy. It notes Shakespeare usage in The Taming of the Shrew with the line How now daughter Katherine in your duraps.
In 1862 on November 4 Richard Gatling patented the first rapid fire gun. Despite proven value the Gatling gun saw little use during the Civil War as a conservative government clung to muzzle loading cannon and rifles.
A reflective aphorism by Phillips Brooks on life as work, mutual aid, learning through suffering, faith through perplexity, and truth through wonder, outlining the meaning of prospering and living.
A father pushes his son Rob Minkin to study higher mathematics to prepare him for future work and price tag writing duties.
Travelin g teachers escort education to inland Maine children along the coast. They stay brief in each isolated district, moving among communities to provide instruction and support.
The article argues for registering births to establish identity and nationality, prove legitimacy, determine school entry and employment rights, enable inheritance and military duty, secure voting and property rights, set marriage age, and support health statistics. It contrasts this with lax attitudes toward registering births.
The guide emphasizes keeping healthy well-developed pullets and culling weak, underdesigned or late-hatched birds in fall. It notes most pullets laying before winter cover first-year costs, while mature hens require careful assessment to decide which to keep or sell. It stresses studying each bird's value and recognizing natural productivity marks.
An eccentric Ohio craftsman uses a pocketknife with nicked blades to carve ornate violins. Despite the simple tool and rough methods, his instruments boast striking appearance and good tone, with wood sourced from unexpected places.
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