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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1921
Page
4
Snakes lack eyelids and never close their eyes as light is controlled by the paper muscle. The rattlesnake’s fangs are curious organs with a hollow canal for venom. Each fang shows a distinct base noseon and is expelled by striking at prey or threats.
Denver welcomed the List through coach on May seventeenth 1859 as the Overland Mail project linked to the Pony Express. Red shirts gathered round the hamlet as drivers and guards prepared for a spirited night with horses saddles and holsters ready. Dusty riders emerged from the trail and the loaded stage arrived on time amid cheers from towns eager for mail and connection to the east.
The Samoyeds, a reindeer using people of the Arctic, share bone implements and customs with western Burere communities. They endure smallpox, drink raw spirits, and face trader exploitation leading to famine and even cannibalism. Each year they journey from Archangel to Saint Petersburg, dwelling on the Neva in pole huts to trade for civilized goods.
Wells Hawks notes the stage doorkeeper is an older man with a history. He guards entry to the stage, recognizing rightful entrants and slitting doors for outsiders, while stars gift him on last nights. The keeper calmly manages crowds and preserves backstage order.
A richly dressed woman hurrying to an elevated station loses one glove on the stairs. She tosses the matching glove to the plain girl below after pausing to glance back, then hurries on with her new gloves as the girl watches. She smiles and says you are welcome.
A short, dated-sounding note surveys famous women and their superstitions. It mentions Rosa Bonheur, Sarah Bernhardt, Duse, and Queen Victoria, noting talismans and beliefs said to influence their work or fate. The tone imitates a light anecdotal column of a historical newspaper.
The phrase describes a ship capsizing to lie on its back, rendering it helpless. In South Seas turtle hunting the animal is flipped onto its back to prevent sinking or swimming, after which captors secure ropes and take it into captivity. The term is used metaphorically in congress to illustrate a ship in a vulnerable, immobile state.
Spain has 600000 titled persons about one in thirty eight inhabitants. These grandees form an aristocracy of birth, with no social ties to dukes of new creation. To become a Spanish baron four hundred pounds suffices a viscounty costs double that amount and to be made a count twelve hundred pounds is necessary.
A Washington Post report describes the Likieb atoll in the Marshall Islands where a Portuguese whaler’s family and a visiting American captain helped turn natives into shipbuilders. The locals now construct 12 ton schooners for chiefs at about 1000 dollars and cheaper for poorer buyers.
During maneuvers near Southampton a stampede of cavalry horses caused chaos across camps. A horse was shot after breaking a leg, thousands fled, many were injured or killed, and two trainloads of wounded animals were sent to Aldershot for treatment. Dozens of horses and several men suffered in the incident.
A Louisville Post item recalls a judge who kept a $20 war era bill given by Federal soldiers after tending wounded Confederate boys at a battle site. The note remained with him for 42 years, unused, as he described hoping the soldiers would recover and reclaim it someday. The story ends with the judge’s claim that the money still belongs to the young men.
A physician notes there are over fifty headache types and suggests self cure for common forms. He lists forms such as dull forehead pain from dyspepsia, back head pain from hyperesthesia, bursting temple pain from malnutrition, top-head ache from overwork, and brow ache from eye strain.
The article describes the traditional Japanese wife as a servile figure who must bow and please her husband, rarely accompanies him in social settings, and conceals emotion. It argues that conjugal love in Japan is seldom visible to foreign observers and headlines the unequal domestic role.
The article describes hairstyles among Japanese widows and maidens, noting changes as women age and signaling social status or intentions. It highlights short plain cuts for widows and elaborate arrangements for maidens, with hairpin accents and bright ornaments as signals within a London reader’s view of Japanese fashion.
Daily on Clark Street women take seats for their homeward trips by boarding streetcars on the fly, dodging motor man attention and risking accidents. Shop girls, clerks from Halsted Street and Gentworth Avenue, rely on Washington Street routes as cars switch southward, a practice described as dangerous and increasingly common.
A precise electric clock housed in an airtight glass cylinder in the Berlin Gaservatory has run for years with an average daily deviation of only 15 one thousandths of a second. It has been operating since 2005 and is regarded as the world’s most exact timekeeper.
At Portman Square in London West End, Mary Brian, once a crossing sweeper, has spent forty years nearby. Now aged eight years of work left, she sits on a box each day watching passersby, weathering rain and cold under a shawl as she keeps her vigil.
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