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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1920
Page
3
A history of statistics arguing that children of older fathers show distinct acquired traits. The piece notes probabilities of eminence rising with parental age, citing figures and phrases about aging, happiness, and social expectations. Mentions Kitchener and a chapel event in Paul's Cathedral, London.
A New York Herald report describes Dutch cows as household companions, with stable life resembling a family sitting room. Cows rest head-to-head toward an inner pasture, while family benches and a central fireplace animate evenings. Cattle are mostly black and white, yielding rich milk due to pasture fertility and careful husbandry.
California growers adopt fruit pre cooling to curb decay in transit to Eastern markets. By exhausting car air and replacing it with ice cooled air, fruit reaches safer temperatures in two to three hours, preserving ripeness and flavor. Costs are modest, at two to three cents per crate, with plants rapidly being installed at major shipping stations.
An Iowa inventor presents a radical design for dishwashing that surpasses the typical rinsing method. Instead of piling dishes in a vessel and blasting water, the new apparatus uses a water pan that actively washes, akin to hand washing, to clean the dishes more thoroughly.
A dish washing machine shows oppositely arranged revolvable brushes and a small stationary brush as a support for the middle of the dish. The dishes are turned and each portion made contact with brushes, promising thorough cleaning. Grisk Trade. The Bishop of London reports a $26 subscription from an undertaker calling the gift a bank offering due to brisk trade.
Emamieel Beveler of Sterling Illinois cut his throat when riding a bicycle and attempting to avoid a passing horse caused a fall. The injury described as a collar cut was the result of the mishap and reflects a proverb about differing perspectives on danger.
A meditation on the love of a pretty work basket and its tools. It emphasizes proper needle sizes, threads, and implements, offers tips for mending and darning with an embroidery frame, soap to ease starch, and cautions against coarse needles and dull scissors. It also advises on cutting, pressing pleats, and using long sharp cutting shears for neat, durable garments.
Classified listings show Buicks, Chevrolet roadsters, and several 1919 Chevrolets available at bargain prices from Putnam Auto Co. Also advertised are farm loans, denatured alcohol for radiators, town jobs, office work, a paper route, and local real estate buyers. Also notes about debts, hay, carbide, and miscellaneous services in Greencastle Indiana.
A crowd debates swimming feats as a Yankee recounts a shipboard man overboard tale. The punchline reveals the man who disappeared near Queenstown later reappeared in New York, having swum ashore, and Paddy the Wit exposes the witness as the man himself.
In a Glasgow steamer pounded by heavy seas passengers remain calm. A timid man asks officers if the ship might founder not from fear but to bid farewell to his mother-in-law aboard, sparking amused exchanges on Harper’s Weekly.
Larry shows a laundry check to a friend and describes it as identification for the Chinaman who will recognize him when he returns for his clothes. He declares he is headed to confront Ping Yaio's laundry, intent on smashing a pigtailed head in a bold, urban scene from Chicago Tribune reporting style.
A fragment from a Philadelphia Press piece presents a humorous exchange about leadership and a lumber trust, with a joke about fence boards and knot holes, reflecting satirical dialogue on authority and business.
A Portland commercial traveler recalls a near Bangor town hotel room with rats scurrying beneath the bed. He reports the clerk answered calmly to the complaint, sending a cat to the room to handle the infestation.
A young man visits a young woman as her mother confronts him with grave questions about his intentions. The scene ends with the girl calling from upstairs that the man is not the right one, delivering a moral tone typical of Modern Soroty in the period.
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