Notice of Elm Street improvement assessments Green Castle 1921
The Greencastle Common Council approves the assessment roll for Elm Street improvement from Maple to Locust with curbs and gutters and concrete sidewalks. Remonstrances may be filed December 27 1921 at 7:30 p.m. to challenge amounts. The assessment roll lists owners and property descriptions and is open at the city clerk’s office. Mayor FE Rupert Bartley. City Clerk W M McGaughey.
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Common Council
Greencastle
Indiana
City
Green Castle
Elm Street
Maple Avenue
Locust Street
Central Avenue
Crown Street
Illinois Street
Rupert Bartley
New Haven Umbrellas Echo Old West India Trade Habit
A New Haven traveler recalls college professors and merchants once carrying pongee umbrellas in summer sun. He links the practice to the East India trade and Old West India merchants who adopted the habit during tropical years. The city preserves this old custom.
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New Haven
New
Antilles
Tropics
Yale
Famous Wolf Hunter of Scotland
In 1748 MacQueen of Pallachroin led a hunting party to track a great black wolf attacking children near Cowdor. He arrived late, sparking tension with MacIntosh, but after the gray wolf head was revealed, the men forgave Pall a chrocain whose fame as a hunter grew, and he received land for meat for his dogs.
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Carnach
MacQueen
Palla’ Chrocein
Macintosh
Cowdor
Figinchas
Pall-a-chrocain
Deer Hunting with a Bell by Theodore Van Dyke
Theodore Van Dyke explains using a cow bell to lure deer. He advises hanging the bell over the shoulder and moving quickly while watching ahead. Deer react to bell sounds, approaching within a hundred yards and sometimes exposing themselves before you, enabling a clear shot when seen.
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Theodore van Dyke
He Built a New Island
Dr Justus Chare health officer of St Paul reclaimed a shoal in the Mississippi as an island by dumping city waste and gifts. The four and one half acres host a playground a small zoo a vegetable garden baths a day nursery and gymnasiums for boys and girls for the city’s residents within easy reach of City Hall.
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Justus Chare
St. Paul
Mississippi
Longest Name Noted In Honolulu Directory Claim
A Honolulu directory lists what is believed to be the longest name in such publications, spelling Miss Annie K. Keohoansakalainhueakaweloaikan ken meaning Jack and the Bean Stack. Paine Nabu chodonozowiszownn from Milwaukee may be champion of Ammarica. Balkatore Schianodi tonnaricilo of Providence and Bernard G. Ahrenhor of St. Louis may gain honorable mention.
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Honolulu
Annie K
St. Jouis
Submarine Mice Guard Crew Warn of Gas Leaks
A World War era note claims three white mice aboard each submarine hunt for gas leaks, detecting fumes faster than humans and signaling danger by their squeaks and attempts to escape. The report emphasizes the mice as tiny guardians of the fleet.
Whistling Workmen and Turkish Manners in a Century
An employer criticizes whistling workers as a sign of mental vacancy while noting that focus is essential in clerical and manual tasks. The piece then surveys Turkish social ascent and manners, portraying arrived Turks as aristocrats with conservative tendencies and civil elegance. A Rome observer praises B- Ber as exceptionally clever and versatile, combining European and American traits with female sympathy.
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Grinis
B— Ber
Rome
Tentury
Microscopical Study Links Faults to Boiler Stay Bolt Failure
English metallurgist Thomas Andrews analyzes a fractured British warship boiler stay-bolt. He finds microscopic segregations of manganese sulphide or iron sulphide and argues flaws began a fatigue line that led to fracture. He notes mild Siemens steel as inferior to the best wrought iron for stay-bolts.
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Thomas Andrews
Andrews
Siemens
Barbed Wheat Shows Protection Against Birds Near Antwerp
Telgian agriculturist Monsieur Le Breton tested barbed wheat against Japhet wheat near Antwerp. Japhet heads were stripped by birds while barbed heads remained intact and ripened. Nonbarbed grains attracted non-seed eating birds more than barbed heads.
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Monsieur le Breton
Antwerp
Medals Awarded in England and Campus Incident
A Belgrade University examiner noticed students purchasing cakes on campus during exams. He bought one and discovered it contained the solution to a problem. Separately, reports say medals are inexpensive in England as a nurse who treated the Duke of Connaught after a car accident received the Victoria Medal from King Edward.
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Belgrade University
England
Duke of Connaught
Edward
The American Woman's Home
A passage notes that hundreds of thousands of American women are born and live their lives in boarding houses or schools without ever finding time or desire to create a home for themselves.
Saving of would be out cides the puupteluality of Rone
A garbled OCR fragment references police and a major date, with unclear names and actions. The readable bits suggest a crime or police matter, but essential details are missing to determine a clear event, parties, or location.
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Rone
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