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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1923
Page
2
The Greencastle Indiana Herald shows a typical second class mail masthead with Charles J Arnold as proprietor and a residence street address 18 8S Jackson Street. It lists a daily publication schedule except Sundays and provides a contact telephone number 65.
The newspaper lists charges for obituaries at $1 per notice with poetry at 5 cents per line and Cards of Thanks priced at 50 cents each.
A Farmers’ Bulletin from the U S Department of Agriculture outlines how to market main crop potatoes. It covers production, grading, packing, shipping, and markets, with guidance on pricing trends, forecasting, and using market reports to plan acreage and avoid losses.
Farmers Bulletin 1817 urges careful planning handling grading packing and market news use of marketing experience from other regions. Copy available free from the United States Department of Agriculture Washington while supplies last.
Producers of pure bred live stock should advertise as other goods do by displaying samples at community and state shows. Quality samples attract buyers, while poor specimens harm the breeder’s reputation. presenting the best animals in attractive condition is essential.
Winter brings heavy losses to beekeepers, including the South where mild winters do not lessen damage. The 10 percent losses could drop to about 1 percent with better windbreaks and proper winter feeding and storage of bees.
The piece explains how mandarin derives from Portuguese manduar and Latin mandarin meaning authority, tracing misbeliefs about Chinese origin. It notes terms such as chop suey kangaroo marmalade man darin and the East misperceptions persist among Oriental visitors and Europeans.
A warm note accompanies recipes for mealy apples dessert with lemon and whipped cream, Peach Betty layering canned peaches with bread or crumbs and lemon juice, and a rich apple pudding baked with raisins brown sugar butter and boiling water for a sauce.
Wash one cupful of rice and cook until flaky and tender. Drain, add three tablespoonfuls of corn sirup or honey, three tablespoonfuls of sugar. Grease a pudding dish and put in a layer of the sweetened rice, spread with a layer of sliced apples, alternating until full. Bake until apples are soft and browned. Serve with or without sauce. A hard sauce of butter and sugar with nutmeg pairs well. Raisins and less sugar may be used for variation.
The young lady across the way opines that a 14 inch gun would be too short to aim accurately, while expressing respect for the secretary of the navy’s expertise.
A Saturday Review poem describes a flock of pigeons over St Pauls London. The birds rise on the wind untethered, while nearby observers tally debts and sums, unseen by the winged procession. The piece contrasts earthly concerns with transient flight and spiritual imagery.
A southern factory develops a process to weave human hair into strong cloth to withstand 4000 to 4500 psi. Hair sourced from Chinese laborers is shipped in large bales, sterilized, combed, carded, and spun into half inch thick rolls weighing 400 pounds each for use by cottonseed oil mills.
Commodus succeeded Marcus Aurelius as emperor of Rome. His brutal excesses included eye and ear mutilations and jealousy toward rivals from his father’s reign, many of whom were eliminated. He was strangled by Narcissus hired by Marcia, and the senate branded him an enemy of the state after his death.
An Epirus envoy visited Sparta and asked why the city lacked walls. The king answered that Sparta's walls were their soldiers, each man a brick in a living defense.
Foreman and workers clash over pay and conditions. Hodcarriers demand better working conditions elevator service and a helper to carry hod to and from the elevator amid stalled negotiations.
Mrs Flubdub summons her family physician as she jokes about apoplexy asking for tools. The doctor promises a quick remedy while hinting at a comical plan to involve her husband in coming from the garage for extra money.
An elderly woman, unable to sign, traditionally made an X on her pension receipt. She drew a circle instead after marrying and changing her name yesterday. The clerk asked why, and she explained the name change required a new mark.
A garbled line shows a man questioning a spouse about the presence of a father figure in the household. The context is unclear, but the remark hints at family tensions or social norms in a historical setting.
The editor taunts Mr Graffik asking if he is married and orders three columns by ten o'clock on how to manage a wife. The exchange reflects a sharp newsroom atmosphere and humor.
In a London Daily News snippet a mistress accuses a maid of breaking a china jug and the maid suggests the cat is to blame. The dialogue playful exchanges reveal the household humor and mischief.
London Answers surveys Japanese proverbs and their meanings covering perseverance, beginnings, misers, disguises, impossibilities, narrow-minded views, aging hearts, dark harbors, feminism, lovesickness, and folly in compact, picturesque phrases. The collection highlights how Japanese culture encodes wisdom in vivid metaphors and maxims.
A retired army officer, playing in a club’s summer medal, waits at a hole as a woman strolls down the fairway crooning to her baby. He chides her to move, she retorts, criticizing his attire and the baby’s presence, calling him out in turn.
A playful reflection questions whether superstition about thirteen influences the idea of a table of multiplication ending at twelve. It hints at cultural beliefs shaping simple number schemas.
In a classroom drill a teacher orders James to compose about a baseball game within five minutes or face punishment. After four tense minutes he submits a hurried piece titled Rain-no game, reflecting the moment and his classmates’ compliance with the instruction.
A columnist notes a playful phrase about a girl’s expression and contrasts it with a man’s pose. The author jokes that arch looks come from bow legs, using a light, tongue in cheek tone.
A child asks who the man is, and a mother replies the minister who married her is the gentle man. The scene centers on a family moment during a wedding or religious ceremony.
Euniee Parker, a girl guide, ordered 17 hikers to use floats on outer ties to escape a locomotive rushing beneath a high bridge over the Ryda river at night. One person, Mrs. A Campbell, did not hear the command and was found dead 40 feet below the bridge.
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