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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1920
Page
2
Fragmentary notice lists Friday 6 Saturday 7 Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 with unclear context. The garbled text repeats the same dates and includes stray words suggesting a dampened schedule or errata. No clear events, venues, or entities are identifiable from the readable portion.
The obituary notice states a charge of one dollar per obituary with an additional five cent fee for each poetry entry. It outlines payment requirements and submission procedures for death notices in the newspaper.
A list of Democratic nominees and hopefuls for Putnam County positions. W E Gill from Cloverdale seeks the representative nomination. Multiple candidates including Edward H Eitle Jorge Aliens Eggers Vermandes Co Hurst Will Glidewell Fred Lancaster E S Lige Wallace Harkins L Jackson compete for sheriff subject to the May 4 1920 primary.
Reese R. Buis of Marion Township and David J. Skelton of Washington Township announce candidacies for the Second and Third districts respectively in the Democratic primary to be held May 4, 1920.
A humorous exchange shows the strain of a constant optimist on Mr Growcher who resists endless cheerfulness. Harold teases with a courting joke as a mother comments that the silly season is near.
Dialogues reveal odd boasts from a seaside trader who says he ran his own business by peddling suspenders, a jack tar who mistrusts large tales about whales, and a puzzled youth teased about being a “broth of a boy” after a soup joke.
A vignette on using plants as weather indicators describes the dandelion, clover, horse chestnut, scarlet pimpernel and convolvulus. It notes how blooms open in fair weather and shut with approaching rain, detailing stem swelling and leaf behavior as signals of upcoming showers.
A Chicago Tribune report notes an application for a peculiar patent a poker playing machine that deals discards draws to your hand and shuffles with the push of an electric button. The device is described as a drumlike cylinder with cards arranged on its head and little else is known of its mechanism.
The article discusses penguin eggs as rich in fatty phosphorus compounds and their use in England for invalids. It notes a large egg can feed a family and describes a twenty minute boiling time. It cites Velpeau’s 1839 view that pain escape in surgery is unattainable and that knife and pain remain inseparable.
On a hot Atchison evening neighbors gathered on porches and shared odd anecdotes. A hired girl loved lard, a friend ate toilet soap, and a baby was examined by Dr Bryning for possible heat rash but swallowed twelve potato bugs.
Uyedan Rikimatsu aged 28 of Kobe received a decade long sentence for stealing a young dog from a Tachibana dori shop owner. He had prior theft of a cat conviction.
A fragment quotes a woman’s vow to love “forever and a day” and a man’s reply noting she kept the promise only for a day. The exchange frames a short, wry reflection on faded affection and broken vows.
The piece describes a brutal image of lumbering on the Pacific Coast with a description of a massive steel spike and a sudden explosive motion from below, likening the mechanism to a gorilla in form and force. The vivid metaphor conveys the danger and power involved in log handling.
Tommy sits with an empty plate as Aunt Sarah asks if he will have more doughnuts. He carewornly replies No ma’am I don’t want them I got now after gobbling three helpings of sausage and doughnuts.
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