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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1915
Page
4
A flurry of short items from Greencastle Indiana reports visitors, local trips, and holiday greetings. Indirect references include Indianapolis officials, Terre Haute friends, Elwood teachers, and Chicago relatives alongside updates on Bassett and Stilesville events and a Greencastle fishing club meeting set for January 1 1916.
Members of the College Women's League church group will host a New Year's dinner. Seats for parties may be reserved and tickets bought from Mrs. S. A. Sfays or Mrs. O. F. Overstreet. Price 0c.
An analysis from the New York Telegraph warns that rapid car travel unsettles dogs, especially spaniels, by stimulating nerves and the brain. It notes dogs crave rescue impulses, mirroring human thrill seeking, and cautions excessive motor rides may harm their health and temperament.
The Quatre Fourche in northern Alberta connects the Peace and Athabasca rivers and can flow in two directions simultaneously. When Peace River water is high the current runs north toward Mamawe, while on the opposite side water from Mamawe can push toward the Peace and Athabasca.
The Cambridge Philosophical Society discussed how far a fly can travel and its flight direction. Dr Hindle released 25 000 flies with chalk dust to track movement, finding that flies migrate against or obliquely to the wind. The longest observed flight was 2296 feet, with city flights around 1400 feet. Under strong wind or hunger, flights can be longer.
The Indianapolis News reports Canopus in the stellar system as 49 000 times brighter than the sun and 134 times larger in diameter. If placed at Earth’s orbit, it would fill 0.85 of Venus orbit and span 70 degrees of arc in the sky, making life impossible on Earth.
The article describes traditional Indian funeral pyres used to cremate the dead, noting the practice persists in peace and war. It mentions British military hospitals in France where wounded Indian fighters are burned by comrades, reflecting enduring religious customs.
The United States Bureau of Fisheries reports six pondweed varieties will be propagated to feed wild ducks. Pondweed becomes a propagated plant in the US as settlers encroach on duck habitats and marshes are drained. Varieties will provide year round food for diving ducks like canvasback and in prairie regions. The canvasback’s flavor is linked to pondweed tubers.
A Brooklyn inventor works on a device to run a typewriter by voice via a telephone transmitter. Steel reeds and electromagnets mimic inner ear fibers, vibrating to produce each letter and closing circuits to press keys. Vowels record well, some consonants falter due to reed sensitivity.
A solid mahogany table six feet in diameter and 1.5 inches thick, cut from a single log, has been received by S. M. Bickerstaff of a Kalamazoo firm. Owned by Gen. Harry H. Dandohis, the table was acquired in the Philippines and shown at several expositions. Filipino labor cut and finished the top from a boll form trunk enlargement, and the top weighs 250 pounds.
A Kalamazoo jeweler creates a reverse movement watch after his daughter complains left handed people are ignored by standard designs. Satisfied customers request similar watches, and he plans to expand into making backward traveling clocks to serve left handed individuals nationwide.
L Rollins of Colfax California has patented a water meter that reads correctly under variable head via an automatic device for constant flow. A Japanes e retired admiral invents a seaworthy inflatable life boat from hashikirazu paper. Debt tends to rise as it is contracted.
Sadie Bridgewater spent Sunday with Mina Moore despite bad weather as a large crowd attended Christmas exercises at the church. Several residents visited relatives in Terre Haute Brazil and Kansas while schools enjoy a week’s vacation.
Lawrence Murphy of North Dakota visits Lena. Roy Thomas and Bertha Gaskill of Lena wed Dec 23 in Brazil with Squire Law. Sarah Rowings spends Christmas with Valla Turner. Clyde and Laura Thomas of Terre Haute visit home folks. Ross Paris of Fillmore and Claud Humphrey of Ferndale visit relatives. W P Murphy family visit Sarah Cox. Dallis Payne family visit Carbon relatives. Gladys Morlan of Terre Nlante and Muriel Thomas of Danville spend Christmas with home folks. Don Asbaugh of Iowa visits Lizzie Thomas. Mrs Welch and Sallie Welch visit Frank Gates.
Real estate transfers include James T. Denny et al transferring land to George Thomas in Greencastle for 700 and Louisina Isabelle Jones transferring land in Washington township to David M McCullough for 600. P D Jones guardian transfers land in Washington township to David N McCullough for 1200. The B P O Elks announce their New Year reception and dance for Friday December 31 1915. Local crime report notes Andrew Drescil captured after escaping from Putnamville State Farm and returned via Shelbyville. S C C Club hosts Christmas party at Jesse Beemer residence with Santa Claus gifts and decorations.
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