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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1921
Page
2
TheGreencastle Indiana postoffice lists chargeable items including cards of thanks at 6c each and obituaries at 81c each. An additional line indicates poetry charges and miscellaneous notices.
A strong sentiment grows among Anchilo Indians and British observers that England should forbid marriages between English women and native Indians. Reports claim such unions end badly, with deserted wives, legal barriers, and social isolation. The issue extends to London’s East End with immigrant intermarriage rising near the docks.
A German scientist detailing ideal female proportions argues the Japanese exhibit the most harmonious development. He estimates measurements for height face head and limbs and notes thumb and finger spans and arm length as standard beauty rules.
A humorous piece blends trivia on wet pencils and the baker's dozen origin. It cites a newspaper clerk testing pencil wetting and recounts whimsical Dutch folklore about why thirteen is called a baker's dozen. The tale links leading figures, places, and origins to quirky customs.
The straposcope reveals rapid machine motions by rapid electric sparks. It lights moving parts to show stationary action when timing matches revolution rates, and to display movement slowed when lagging. It highlights engine work and sewing machine stitch formation at visible speeds.
A survey of one legged competitors across sports shows cricketers, swimmers, cyclists, runners, wrestlers, and boxers excelling despite amputations. Notable figures include Camp the beach master, Kilpatrick and West in speed feats, Carter’s six mile dash, Binet’s strength displays, and Kench’s boxing prowess against larger foes.
Signor Am edo Bucci, a Milanese barrister, has developed a flexible fabric resembling leather that allegedly cannot be pierced by bullets or hard steel. He demonstrated by driving a car over large ground pegs and by firing revolver shots at a fabric piece tested by the Minister of Marine, all without defeating the material.
Dr EB Magnin and M Edward Flegenheimer photographed about 500 images showing a hypnotic subject reacting to musical and oral prompts. The collection captures full ranges of emotion from joy to greed, with expressions praised as intense as those of eminent artists. The article notes Rome’s vast cemetery as the world’s largest, burying over six million people.
A Berlin clerk rejects nearly £100,000 from an Austrian uncle after learning the man’s usury ties. In London, Frederick Charrington declines £1,250,010 from a brewery share to pursue temperance work in East London. A West End doctor’s fortune, left to a nephew with charity contingency, is rejected and later transferred to a deserving cousin, with outcomes influenced by personal betrayals and fate.
The Century Magazine argues farming remains unorganized and uncaptured by syndicates. It notes farmers resist corporate entanglement, rely on intrinsic earnings, and face pressure from both organized capital and labor while securing only a remainder after yearly enterprise.
The text traces how foraminifera shells formed most chalk and limestone from Beachy Head to the Alps and Carpathians. It notes their role in geology from ancient seas to modern ocean floors, linking chalk beds to paleontological history and the genesis of the nummulitic limestone in pyramids.
Franklin Welles Calkins recounts Murray Grenlet's mountain goat hunt in Montana. Grenlet wearing a goatskin decoy suit is spotted by autumn tourists on a slope, prompting a deadly rifle volley. He escapes by shedding the disguise and scrambling to safety, amid angry gunfire and close-range shots.
The scene shows painters and decorators at work in a dining room while a housewife juggles orders. A painter jokes about painters colic and mocks the wife for keeping her mouth open, prompting quick retort before the work resumes in silence.
London Country Gentleman notes many back street curiosity shops in county towns are run by large London firms. They exploit a found taste for old furniture and silver, selling at higher prices to locals shy about Bond Street or Piccadilly.
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