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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1913
Page
4
Harper's Weekly notes that horse dentists in big cities specialize in extracting and filling teeth. They use a speculum to keep the mouth open and a two foot cutter to snap off damaged corners, with fillings in gold aluminum or amalgam. Fees range from 35 to 125 dollars.
Alalia Boniface endures a three day and night vigil beside her killed husband in the desert. Miners summon Coroner C. D. Van Wie as the Piute woman chants a dirge and protects the grave, scarcely eating until burial.
George Christie and Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Peck traveled to Indianapolis on business while Arthugg Hurst of Belle Union visited Greencastle. Numerous residents and visitors are noted in Greencastle, Indianapolis, Cloverdale and Gosport with updates on illness, travels, and civic duties including jury commissioners named by Judge James P. Hughes and a DePauw student voting turnout.
The play Milestones will run the entire week of January 5 at the English's Opera House in Indianapolis with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. It features evolving themes from marriage to women's suffrage and follows generations of a family under changing social expectations.
Broad Arke residents attended events in Green Castle on Monday. Dora McAnineh and her husband from Arie stayed with the McAninchs Friday night. Melvin McCammack and family visited the McCammacks Sunday, and Gilbert Dorsett with family visited Hugh Parker. Clarence Phillips wed Ada Mish er at Danville Wednesday. Virgil Whitaker and family from Monrovia spent a few days with Fletch Walter and wife. Frank Wleox and family visited Mer o and Mrs Clivener Adams last Thursday.
Dan Cline and wife spent Sunday with M. Dy. Lastey and family. Benjamin Wininger and wife near Cloverdale visited Mr. and Mrs. Havilah Jones. Jesse Cox, visiting Verre Haute relatives, returned home. Elbert Allen of Ploverdale spent part of last week with uncle W A Allen. Xmas tree event at Poplar Grove drew many. Thomas Williams visited Saturday with brother A J Williams north of Cloverdale. William Allen and wife visited Albert Williams near Putnamville.
Followers of theatrical fare in Indianapolis await Milestones at English's Opera House opening January. The play traces three generations from 1860 to 1912, showing a dreamer who believes ships can be iron, a collapsed partnership, and evolving attitudes in industry.
Harvard University creates a School for Health Officers within its medical department for graduates in medicine and sanitary engineering. Entry requires prior coursework and two years preparation. The degree of Doctor of Public Health demands studies in anatomy physiology chemistry sanitary biology and hygiene and sanitary engineering. A trained health officer would improve health, wealth, and happiness by visiting communities and directing sanitary improvements. The note also reports Mrs. J. P. Allen’s illness worsening from grippe to potential typhoid fever.
Mrs. Ruby Hayes regains her wedding ring lost twenty five years ago after her husband found it in dirt while repairing a trough in their yard. The ring had disappeared after the wedding, reappeared five years later, then vanished again before resurfacing in a spadeful of soil found by the husband.
A foot and a half long water snake, about five sixteenths of an inch thick, can swallow a killifish an inch and a half long and nearly half an inch in diameter. The creature demonstrates remarkable capacity for its size, per the New York Sun.
The Newton New Jersey company is near receivership after building a large plant on sand. Liabilities total 149,650 dollars with assets at 84,000, and no funds exist to relocate or restart operations. The Builders Gazette questions the construction choice and notes the need for a solvent, secure site.
The pine is hailed as the greatest American tree with wide use and high demand. The piney woods country offers health resorts like Aiken, Pinehurst, and Thomasville, famed for ozone health benefits, plus abundant fruit, vegetables, and cheap living.
Sir Henry Hawkins presided over a lengthy trial and listened to a long winded speech. He sent a pencil note via the usher to the opposing counsel stating Patience competition Gold medal Sir Henry Hawkins Honorable mention Job.
State dairy and food commissioner James Foust urges the legislature to pass a bill imposing long terms of imprisonment and heavy fines for selling or buying decayed eggs for food. He also seeks labeling of all cold storage poultry, game, and eggs as cold storage products.
The Glasgow Herald notes difficulty in estimating total grain crop losses but cites a plausible £2 per acre deterioration on 90 percent of cropland, yielding well over £2,000,000. Winter losses from rotten fodder and long sales of discolored grain are harder to quantify.
Diners report a growing assumption by waiters that any change from a bill is theirs. When payments arrive close to the amount due, waiters take the change, prompting customers to insist on receiving their proper change and leaving no tip.
The London Chronicle notes that seventeenth century novels dwarfed modern ones. Mademosielle de Scendery’s Le Grand Cyrus ran ten volumes over five years, and after translation appeared as five folio volumes. La Calprenede’s Qleopatre stretched to twenty three volumes, yet attracted many readers. The Paris publisher earned 100 000 crowns from the first edition. Scudery and Calprenede works were quickly translated into English and often into German.
A large crowd witnessed the first removal of undesirable fish from Clear Lake. J Weigner of Harper’s Ferry Iowa captured seven tons of mostly carp and buffalo by a seine over a mile long, with nine assistants. The fish were removed from the seine and returned to the lake after weighing twenty four and near twenty pounds. The state paid $400 for the privilege.
Cardinal Coulllie of Lyons prohibits priests and clerical students in his diocese from riding bicycles. He argues the act undermines priestly gravity and conduct. An appeal to Rome is believed futile as Pius X also forbade clergy bicycle use.
The Henrici rooms in Berlin hosted a sale of manuscripts from renowned composers. Mendelssohn five lieder brought 810 marks, Beethoven King Stephen draft 350 marks, Mozart composition 400 marks, 62 Schumann letters 405 marks, and Wagner letters 800 marks as reported by Munchner Neueste Nachrichten.
A Columbian friend recalls the Hadherway home in Jackson County, Missouri. The front gate shows Hadherway the name that drew attention for years as the family finally moved from Kansas City to a country farm.
Peat beds in Ireland may become valuable beyond fuel as Austrian experiments claim peat reed and grass fibers can be used to weave fabrics. The discovery suggests peat could supply materials for papercaking carpets and high quality textiles, expanding industrial uses.
The French government seriously considers a plan to explore Algiers and the Sudan by airplanes to determine the best locations for airship stations.
Osteopathy claims to adjust mechanical disorders remove nerve pressure and bodily obstructions quicken assimilation and waste elimination. The Spaunhurst practice in Greencastle marks eleven years with phone 226 in Prevo Block awaiting new offices.
In Putnam county during the spring Democratic primaries speculation rises over many candidates and the city level race. Mrs Flint recounts a humorous election dilemma while citizens await local option results showing a dry majority of 256 after the first ward posted a wet lean by 55. Mr and Mrs Ward Arbogast and son Gilbert return to Lafayette after visiting Mrs Marguerite Kelley.
State fire marshal warns that fire hazards in buildings threaten not only owners but the whole community through adjoining fires. He cites France’s law enforcing individual responsibility and notes higher fire losses locally. Also reports quarantined scarlet fever case of Walter Goldberg and social visits in town.
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