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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1921
Page
2
Obituary and classified notice page listing charges for death notices at 50 cents per line and general notices from Greencastle Indiana. Details include post office location at 17 and 1y S. Jackna Street and contact via telephone 66 Cartle of Thanas.
Fragmentary text discusses animals surviving without water and links habit formation to human success. It mentions a childhood picture book and a Moon reference, then shifts to a philosophical note on purpose and training. Named individuals or organizations are not clearly identifiable in the readable portions.
Aungo proposes a lime paving event to lay lime rock on four city streets. The lime will be shed washed packed and form a cement equal to asphalt. The government is testing lime with good results.
County Engineer J Y McClintoch urges building and maintaining Midewsiks and restoring side paths as a cost efficient step with the improved coaches in Monroe County New York. He stresses sidewalk improvement as essential given the small expense involved. The rest of the text notes diverse trivia like Pope's gloves, US cotton share, a meteor in Mexico and Chinese chrysanthemums in history.
The franking privilege for the President and for members of Congress is abolished effective July 1, 1872. Mail matter on public business may be sent free only during official duties and not beyond term limits.
Geneva correspondence Pall Mall Gazette notes a herd of twenty to thirty chamois gathered at noon each day on the Mettenberg rocks. They string along a narrow path above glaciers while avalanches loom earlier and later, providing a dramatic Alpine spectacle for observers.
Mr A R Horwood of the Leicester Museum discusses how eggs colors reflect nesting habitat. White eggs come from dark hollow or concealed nests. olive brown eggs blend with ground or heather. ringed plover, little tern, oyster catcher eggs imitate sand and glare. other species imitate soil or dried vegetation. chicks also show protective coloration.
An official at the Smithsonian in Washington says the current animal tally underestimates true diversity. He notes insects alone may exceed two million species, with ten million a moderate upper bound, while overall individual numbers remain incalculable.
An exploring party led by A H Brooke supports Mount McKinley as North America's loftiest peak. The team traveled about 00 miles in Alaska last season. Topographer D L Rea Burn notes height measurements have a probable error under 100 feet, placing McKinley above 200000 feet and Voraker at 17000 feet.
Advice urges keeping a reliable medicine at home to treat cramps colic and cholera morbus until a physician can be reached. It warns these ailments can be fatal without prompt treatment and emphasizes preparedness to ease pain and potentially save lives.
The Storm nose Gewiliernose is a high pressure wave pre storm causing sea level changes. Barometer rises quickly then falls gradually. Danish sea observations show level shifts reaching up to three feet.
Five year old Thomas met an unknown tall uncle with a bald head framed by a hair fringe, reminiscent of David B. Hill cartoons. He quipped to his mother that the new relative had grown so fast his hairline never reached the top.
An old note explains a simple eyesight test using Ursa Major. It invites readers to locate Mizar, the second star in the constellation, and to spot its double star companion on a clear night. Success proves good vision.
Hotel proprietor retorts to a guest as he asserts hospitality while the visitor resists and claims to be unsettled by the arrangement. The exchange hints at tension over expectations and control within the lodging.
The report notes continued belief in witchcraft in India with cases across Bengal Santhal Pargana Palamau and among Khonds and other tribes. Women suspected of witchcraft are killed or sacrificed often tied to cholera fears and village beliefs.
A Royal Microscopical Society gift from M. Nachet notes daguerreotypes captured with electric light by Leon Foucault. The plates are dated before 1844 and bear his signature, marking the earliest known photographs and the first use of electricity in scientific imaging.
Maria Megilereo, a music hall singer born in Algiers, told the London Mirror of a life as a bullfighter and tamer under an assumed masculine disguise. She later gambled away her money after a string of injuries and is now arrested for attempting to pawn jewels not her own.
An Omaha observer notes New Yorkers bustling on surface elevated and ferry routes. He recalls riders on cars reading typewritten manuscripts studying languages aloud and filling memo books while others ignore the activity.
Investigators estimate rails in England lose eighteen tons daily to rust. Much expense stems from repainting iron and steel structures, including the Scotch bridge over the river. Pure iron resists rust without oxygen, but rust forms with acids like carbonic acid in water. Sulfuric acid from locomotive smoke accelerates rust in stations.
In spring 1908 a swarm flew over a vineyard to a hollow concrete block. A bee scout found a small hole into the block cavity and reported back, proving swarms send scouts during reconnaissance according to Scientific American.
Unprecedented photographs produced by a method from M. Estanave of the University of Marseilles were explained before the Academy of Sciences in Paris. The dia positive on a sleeping woman shows eyes that open when tilted and close in the original pose, with the entire face appearing animated as described in Current Literature.
The younger Dumas compared his stop to M. Mae terlinck as he realized the harm of nicotine in middle life. He recalled laying down his cigar after a vivid description of smoking evils and vowed never to smoke again, a vow he says he has kept. He argues tobacco saps the brain like alcohol.
Chestnuts are nearly as valuable as bread and more nutritious than potatoes. Two pounds yield 118 grammes of starch and eight of fat. France produces over 3,000,000 quintals annually. Tan exporters buy chestnuts for tanning, limiting food market supply and boosting profits for producers.
The Four Track News reports new education standards for German state railway conductors require proficiency in English and French in addition to their native language. Those failing exams will be discharged, tightening qualification rules.
At Chufu, birthplace of Confucius, a gray oolitic limestone sounding stone is used as a cover for an incensed inscribed in front of Confucius grandson’s tomb. When struck the stone rings like bronze with a clear tone. Similar sounding stones exist elsewhere, such as Ireland’s musical Ce rick bridge in County Mayo where the coping stones emit notes when struck.
Thomas Machell of Glasgow presents a dulcitone with a piano like keyboard but sound produced by tuning forks instead of strings. A semicircular steel spring transfers vibrations to the sounding board giving clear soft tones suitable for solo or accompaniment. It weighs forty five pounds versus a piano’s 250 pounds.
French researchers report snow that falls and soon collects on the ground shows high radioactivity which fades within about two hours. Snow on soil retains radioactivity slightly longer than snow on rooftops, Boulogne study notes.
Aberdeen inventor John Ogg introduces a turbine design where steam enters through a hollow axle and acts on rotating disk wings. Reversal is achieved by deploying a second set of disks with wings at a reverse angle, using grooved valves to project steam and reverse motion instantly.
The article discusses solar temperature as about eighteen thousand degrees Fahrenheit and the sun’s light as vastly brighter than common flames and metals. It notes the sun’s light is thousands of times more intense than the glow from a Hessemer converter and oxyhydrogen flame, illustrating the sun’s extreme brightness.
Observation of 990 twisted trunks out of 1008 shows a consistent right to left twist. The pattern parallels the northern cyclonic storm rotation and Brunhes noted whirlpools. The article ponders whether southern hemisphere torsion would reverse with opposite atmospheric cyclones.
The excerpt records a string of public opinions about an aviator named Hiitly, ranging from mockery to praise. Observers call him the wizard of the air and a distinguished fellow countryman, noting a knighthood as a possible honor. Born in mystery.
A historic discussion questions the atomic theory after new discoveries. Prof. Herbert R. Moody argues the theory remains valid because earth conditions hide detectable changes in atomic weight, though some suggest the century old view may be untenable as particles beyond atoms are known.
A report on attempts in Queensland and New South Wales to extract gold and other metals from beach sands. The process shows promise with finds of gold, platinum, and uranium, believed to originate from submerged rocks fractured by strong coastal waves.
The name Arkansas derives from an Indian tribe found by early explorers within the present state. French settlers arrived at Arkansas Post around 1685. It joined the Louisiana Territory until 1812, then the Missouri Territory until 1819, when Arkansas Territory was formed, later including Indian Territory. Arkansas became a state on June 15, 1836.
A historical note describes a fisherman in Norway bleeding fish immediately after capture by throat cut or tail bleed. It claims blood loss improves quality before spawning and notes some people react with sickness to herring and mackerel. Dead oysters are said to contaminate mixed heaps yet not harm live ones.
The Milky Way consists of countless fixed stars not affecting Earth’s weather. Changes in stellar position result from Earth’s daily and yearly motion. Light from these stars travels thousands of years to reach us.
During winter the Engiba Salvation Army planned to provide fifty thousand meals from shipboard waste at Chatham dockyards. With many sailors ashore on leave, the food still arrives, traditionally counted as waste, yet one night fed six hundred people from what would have been thrown away.
A resident reporting to the British colonial office states that Bora Province chief Kokeafo allegedly reached 205 years old while his companion lived to 137. The claim appears in a colonial report and uses local titles and places in Nigeria.
Teisserenc de Bort used sounding balloons to collect air samples up to over eight and a half miles. Helium appears only below six miles. Neon is detected at all levels, supporting the identification of several neon spectral lines in the aurora dorsalis.
A historical painting titled The Handkerchief of Saint Veronica by German painter Gabriel Mar of the Morieb school drew wide attention as a pictorial wonder. Reported phenomenon includes the Saviour's eyes appearing to open and close.
Dr Johnson notes the kitchen dresser as a bench for dressing meat in the kitchen. He cites weight in Domestic Manners of the Middle Ages describing aristocrats displaying plates at dinner. The table featured shelves to arrange items, called a dresseir in French or Anglo Norman to show articles.
An Italian physicist Signor Salvioni has devised a microbalance so delicate it reveals musk volatilization as weight loss. A thin glass thread supports microscopic objects near its end. flexure observed under 100x magnification shows weight changes as small as one one-thousandth of a gram.
Among Britain’s archeo lochea lies the dew ponds dating from the Neolithic age. They were built in exposed spots without springs to provide drinking water for cattle. A hollow surface was covered with straw and clay, and nightly cold air condensed moisture. Some ponds still work today.
The Praetorian Guard was Augustus’s select force protecting the emperor. Ten cohorts of 1000 men each were drawn from Italy and given special privileges. After sixteen years of service each member retired with a pension. They held captain ranks and, like other elite guards, grew into a powerful faction capable of deposing or elevating emperors.
An Italian chemist Signor Tarugi proposes an aluminum wire mask to protect miners glass and mirror factory workers from inhaling mercuric vapors. He believes aluminum will absorb the vapors from the inhaled air.
Remittances from the South to the North dwindled before 1860 and grew uncertain afterward, ultimately stopping in the following year. At the war onset, merchants in the North were owed $00,000,000, a sum largely uncollected and treated as a criminal offense to enforce. New York firms suffered about $160,000,000 in losses, with dry goods, clothiers, boot and shoe dealers, and jewelers hit hardest.
An editorial fragment argues that idle hours and vacant minds tempt evil. It urges filling time with productive occupation to expel vice, claiming moral discipline defeats temptation and that control over thoughts prevents wrongdoing.
An Irish fishing hack using a wire clip leads to a simple cleat in ketching a fish. a Cass County Mississippi tale explains how a post office acquired its peculiar name after a Washington petition. The official story notes the name stuck as a local quirk rather than a formal designation.
The piece discusses insects spreading sleeping sickness and other illnesses. It cites the tsetse and a Brazzaville insect named Uorysopa, noting trypanosomes in a mosquito of Slezemyia and references yellow fever propagation. The text emphasizes growing danger of vectors in disease spread.
The piece contrasts American apples with potatoes and mocks national potato farming. It notes Germany as the world’s largest potato producer, claiming up to 44,600,000 tons yearly and questions America’s potato growing and preservation efforts. The text also laments breeding diseases and criticizes close familial marriages.
A Lincoln county girl writes to the Kansas City Star urging diligence and thrift. She urges young men to work, save money, and avoid laziness, advising girls to support those who work and to stay clear of idle suitors.
A description of a new scaffold system for tall offices where platforms hang from steel girders and are raised as bricklayers progress their work, enabling construction on 10 to 56 story buildings.
A Lausanne school for waiters teaches foreign languages and general hotel operations. The aim is not only to improve waiting but to prepare students for advancement in the hotel business beyond serving.
A New York study finds Impoliteness Reichus men in public conveyances harsher to women than in other cities. Data show 13 percent seated men while 70 percent of women remain standing, marking a stark local contrast.
The ancient city of Lyons vies with Milan in importance to the world silk industry. More than 45,000 people including men women and children are employed in the silk trades and factories.
The Poilonophes of Folly remark on a peculiar stunt described as the queerest they know, noting how it should elicit steady restraint from any observer while highlighting the irony of expectant chatter.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions women and a sultan and hints at supply or aid. Limited readable names or places appear, with no clear event date or attribution.
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