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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1923
Page
4
A London pauper Robert Culver carried a secret dye formula to his grave after learning it from a German relative. He built a dye company that failed due to officials’ dishonesty and poverty followed. Culver died in a poorhouse without revealing the process, his German relatives having died or been killed during the war.
Two young women Winnie McLaughlin aged 23 and Ruby Morgan aged 22 confessed to running a profitable scheme using male accomplices to lure men into taxis beat and rob them. They were held without bail for further investigation along with four alleged male suspects James McAndrews Cleveland Lerwin Cohen Youngstown Michael Kelp and Charles Wineberg Pittsburgh.
A steam shovel weighing 300 tons with coal has been built in England for irrigation work in the Punjab, India. It is ten times larger than typical machines and lifts 20 tons per minute, performing the labor of 600 men.
W. L. Austin of Corsicana Texas bought and occupied two seats at the Fulton theater in New York, prompting curiosity from the audience as a rare seating arrangement.
A businessman reports a total loss exceeding 25000 with 100 from his own funds in a terse exchange during a passing show. The brief dialogue underscores a tough day in the financial arena.
Rome Ga Mrs Lula Crisler twenty four of Cedar Bluff Ala died at a local hospital from injuries after her two year old daughter shut a door on her foot. The wound did not seem serious but became painful and infected with blood poisoning. By the time she sought treatment the infection had advanced beyond help and she died after more than a week of suffering.
A report describes the Indian goddess Sali as supremely powerful in curing sickness and disease. It notes British authorities halted daily human sacrifices and mentions a small temple on Madura outskirts with figures of men women and children representing now forbidden rites.
Winchester Virginia police investigate a bold theft as a tombstone weighing over half a ton is reported missing from the banditry wave. The carved stone had been sold to a Frederick County customer and vanished from the showroom near Mount Hebron cemetery.
Creditors heirs and legatees of Sarah C Albaugh are summoned to Putnam Circuit Court Green Castle Indiana on January 10 1924 to show cause regarding the estate final settlement.
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