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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1919
Page
2
A brief note from Indiana reports LD Jass mail liaison at the local post office. Proprietor Jack Wcastle operates in the town, with afternoon hours listed as 7 and 19 S and a price of 65 cents per item or service priced at $1.
Obituary notes Tyr Rolland F. Darnall's family ties and long illness, praises his devoted wife Mary Deitrich, and records his funeral at College Avenue Church with pallbearers and burial in Forest Hill cemetery. Includes a humorous Small Boy and Small Sister exchange from the New York Post.
New York and New Jersey plan a massive under river tunnel for vehicular traffic dated for completion within two years. The 9000 foot long two deck highway would connect Canal Street in Manhattan to Thirteenth Street in Hoboken, carrying up to 100000 vehicles daily and easing freight bottlenecks amid fuel shortages history.
Tom Mix sought a pickpocket to play a camera role for High Speed with Captain Dan O’Brien of the San Francisco police. The man balked, saying he would not have his mug flashed on screen for any price. Others also refused, prompting Mix to hire a professional actor for the part.
Investigators from the Department of Justice visited a cold storage plant and found a hog claimed to have been in storage for 25 years. Officials said such a duration would indicate an oversight and pledged further inquiry.
A Vermont man paid 57.50 in Boston for a bed once slept in by the Prince of Wales later Edward VII. Historic items fetch varied sums from 7.50 to 7,500 for hair and manuscripts. relics remain a risky, specialist market with little steady profit versus food trades.
London stamp collectors admire curios stamps arriving from Lithuania Lettland and Czechoslavia. Lithuania issues first permanent stamp on Silurian gray bread ticket paper. Lettland prints on German map backs then cigarette paper. Fiume stamps show Italian mandate themes with Romulus and Remus statue and other images dated 30-10-1918.
In 1917 Rear Admiral Mayo attempts to hail a taxi near the Nelson Statue in Trafalgar Square during a London cruise. The independent taxi driver resists, and after delays the Admiral secures a promise of a taxi, joking that they have kept them waiting for three years.
Police Inspectors Gorey and Pitman raided a Manchester confectionery run by Arthur Vasil and discovered hard cider flowing from a chocolate urn. In the cellar two men slept off drinks. one man testified he had four drinks. Vasil was arrested and held on bond.
New Yorkers may find it cheaper to stay put as moving costs soar this fall. Real estate men say high moving expenses deter residents who used to move annually or biannually. Only a small fraction are surrendering this year compared with former years.
J Pierpont Morgan relates a tale of a resolute English clergyman who confronted Lady Blank, whose refusals to give to the offertory caused scandal. The elder's quip about manners and silver provoked churchwide laughter and a sharp reminder of kinship. The tale ends with the clergyman noting he will mention relationships when recounting it. A contrasting verse and an ad for denatured alcohol close the item.
Andrew Carnegie recalled a New York millionaire who splurges on art and luxury. Paul Bourget noted his bragging about slicing a Velasquez to fit a screen. A visitor in a three million dollar palace mocked a giant mirror as scratched. The millionaire warned his staff not to let the children handle more diamonds.
A careful Scottish man drops a single copper coin into the collection plate. Realizing the error he asks for the coin back, but the coffer gatherer declines. He concedes the loss, noting it could have caused trouble elsewhere.
The Washington Star notes Senator Shively reciting a Fourth of July war story at a South Bend banquet. A private longs for furlough to see his wife after months apart, while the colonel counters with his own longer separation, prompting a sharp retort about manners.
A father seeks guidance on his son's future and visits a village sage. The plan to test the boy with a theology book an apple and money leads to the boy sitting on the book with the apple half eaten and money in hand. The sage declares the boy a born lawyer.
The notice explains battery freezing points by specific gravity levels. It lists freezing temperatures at various gravity readings and offers free test slips to show the gravity of each cell.
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