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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1920
Page
3
The funeral of Mrs Ruth Boes, 82, who died Sunday morning at Terre Haute after a short illness of pneumonia, was held this morning at Cataract. Burial followed at Cataract cemetery. Mrs Boes was the mother of Theodore Boes of this city.
Dr George Parkin Atwater recounts a Whit e Mountain encounter with a layman from a large Eastern parish. He argues churches should train lay workers for child programs and focus resources on child training rather than bricks and mortar to win parents through their kids.
Local items include Miss Ruby Bachelor confined by illness, Gwin Ensign visiting family in New Ross, and Mrs Addie F Ringo in Indianapolis on business. Several residents travel, host, or attend events, with Mar 2 road truck purchases planned and a March tonsil operation for Miss Adelaide Thomas.
Mrs A W Milne of St George Utah says Chamberlain's Tablets relieve biliousness and constipation. Get them at the drug store. They cost a quarter.
Wanted girl for general house work no washing apply in person at 202 Spring Avenue Real estate we have buyers for modern or semi modern properties well located if you have for sale call 69 Put nam Reality Co Inc For Sale B flat corner $10 call 736 Farm hand wanted at once work every day good house and privileges good opportunity for hustling young man with small family apply at the Herald office
A collection of witty, dated observations on women, marriage, law, politics, and social norms. Notable lines reference Miss Abbie Whistler of Chicago seeking a presidential nomination and broader musings on honesty, vanity, and public life.
A farm owner seeks a tenant and will hire by day or on one third or one half basis to the right man. Apply at once at the Herald office.
A Vermont buyer paid 57.50 in Boston for a bed once slept in by the future Edward VII, while famed artifacts like Washington chairs and Mary Queen of Scots letters commanded wide sums. Yet some records yielded little, as rare relics prove largely speculative, with specialists and preachers chiefly profiting over practical buyers and market odds.
Stamp enthusiasts in London look to newer issues from smaller European states. Lithuania issues feature heavy Silurian gray paper, Lettland uses German ordnance maps, Szechoslovak designs blend Bohemia Moravia and Silesia arms, and Italian mandate prospects appear on Fiume stamps with inscriptions and imagery of Remus and the Venice scenes.
In 1917 Rear Admiral Mayo searches for a taxicab in central London near Nelson's statue. A stubborn taxi driver stalls requests despite Mayo's rank and a British aristocrat, until hotel promise yields a cab. The driver quips that they have kept them waiting for three years.
Police inspectors found hard cider flowing from a chocolate urn in a Manchester confectionery run by Arthur Vasil. In the cellar two men slept in a coal bin after drinking. Vasil was found guilty but appealed and held on $400 bonds.
New Yorkers may find it cheaper to pay higher rents than to move this fall as moving costs rise. Real estate men say moving expenses deter a habit of frequent relocations, with only about one lease in a hundred being surrendered this year compared with earlier years.
A large auction on the Dixie Highway near Bluff Road offers 45 head of work mules including two two year olds and four three year olds, plus 3,000 bushels of corn and 20 tons Timothy hay. Sale begins at 10 a m with cash for sums under ten dollars and eight month credit on larger purchases, notes bearing interest, security required. Lunch served by Brownstown Church Ladies Aid.
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