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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1919
Page
2
The Tyrol houses over 500 castles once owned by great families and in various states of ruin. Some sit on cliff edges while others rest on firm ground, offering daring access for visitors. Many decayed ruins are still romantic though some listed are merely pulverized rocks.
A New York Times critique laments the lack of a proper noun for lawyers’ work, noting engineering and medicine have clear terms while “lawyering” is absent. The piece argues the profession suffers from this linguistic neglect and remains oddly unnamed.
Leopold Wertheimer recalls starting from a small shop to five New York department stores by prioritizing courtesies to maids and nurses. He highlights doorward kindness, signage for baby carriages, and hiring a maid to manage carriage display, shaping a family-focused customer base.
The Minneapolis Journal notes waltzing mice once common as goldfish are now extinct in the United States due to war shortages. Breeders stopped raising them, and their lively dances on small surfaces are remembered as a bygone childhood pet. Some may still exist in Japan, but immigration laws split them from the United States.
The black and white warbler or black and white creeper is highlighted by the American Forestry Association of Washington in a national bird house building contest. Descriptions note its black and white head stripes, eye white stripes, wing bars, and white tail feather edges. The bird feeds by peering into tree bark to gather insects and grubs, helping control tree pests.
Jonathan Trumbull, born October 12 1710 in Lebanon Connecticut, was the original Brother Jonathan and a trusted adviser to George Washington. A clergyman, lawyer, merchant and Connecticut governor, he died in 1785 in Lebanon, the town of his birth.
Sir John Biland-Sutton of Middlesex Hospital Medical School explains that all animals except humans and monkeys have a third eyelid. Birds such as the turkey wink with a opaque lid, while some birds fishes and reptiles use a transparent cover for protection or hunting. The star gazer fish uses powerful muscles to trap prey, with over fifty small fish found inside after capture.
A twelve year old newcomer to town misreads his school teacher’s fatigue. Ted recalls her remark about not being able to “block her own shoes” and interprets it as deception. The scene exposes his struggle to adapt to new surroundings and language.
On October 24 1838 a reform faction seized control of a Democratic county convention at Tammany Hall. They used candles and a sulfur match called loco foco to light the meeting lampooned by opponents as loco-fecos, a nickname that spread nationwide and stuck.
Relics brought to Merit from Greek Macedonia by allied Eastern armies reveal neolithic tools and a broad range of ancient Greek vases. Jewels, bronze, silver and gold of great value accompany tombs from the fifth and sixth centuries BC, linking Macedonian civilization with the ancient world.
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