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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
2
Subscription rates for the Daily Herald by mail are listed for various durations with 10 cent weekly rates and annual options. Cards of Thanks and obituaries carry separate charges, plus a note about an old home remedy and a recipe tip for cream mints.
The article notes bees produced vast honey worth 25 million dollars at ten cents a pound, suggesting higher output if all beekeepers worked as efficiently. It also offers farm tips including sunbathing washing milk pails, early vegetables, mushroom and berry markets, lettuce succession sowing, and pruning roses to remove old wood.
A simple no fail pudding recipe from the Chicago Journal describes mixing one cup each of cates and half and one cup sugar with one and a half cups flour two eggs one teaspoon soda and a quarter cup milk. Beat and bake slowly serve with sauce or whipped cream. Kept in a cool place it stays fresh for weeks.
Service note offers free tests with slips showing the specific gravity of each cell.
Paris reports a treaty clause requires Germany to return the Cercay papers seized in 1870 from M. Rouher. A London Sunday Times story claims a German officer saved the papers, which Bis marck hid in state archives, with letters suggesting German mastery over France and southern German states.
Major A B Crichfield of Shreve, Ohio, while in Washington, paid about six to seven dollars for bacon he received in two razor thin strips. He weighed and measured the slices and estimated the side would cost the hotel at least six hundred dollars at his purchase price, calling it a meat bit of profiteering.
sensational report ties 17 year old Wanda Gysser daughter of General Gysser to a murder of Bolshevik agent Ardasjeff. an anti Bolshevist committee including the general decided his execution after a council at midnight. Ardasjeff died hung from a beam watched by Miss Gysser. a Russian naval officer and the general and daughter fled to Copenhagen.
Gabriel Poulain, the noted French cyclist, has perfected an aerocycle that can rise and travel twelve yards at 25 miles per hour. French and British enthusiasts foresee aerocycles becoming as common as bicycles. Lifting the craft requires great effort, but in flight propulsion is easy.
Sir William Osler regius professor of medicine at Oxford was presented with two large octavo volumes of essays at the Royal Society of Medicine for his seventieth birthday. The volumes include contributions from more than 150 writers across the British Empire and America on medical history education research pathology and therapeutics.
An English railways anecdote describes isolated compartments, a bell used only in emergencies, and a prank bell rung by an near sighted old lady. The sudden stop causes chaos aboard the train as guards respond and the old lady requests chicken sandwiches and root beer.
A New York club discussion on how professionals express themselves in written form features a lawyer asserting lawyers are unsurpassed for clearness and explicit diction. He contrasts a doctor simply saying I give you the orange with a legal draught that expands conveyance to include rind juice pulp and pips and related rights and powers.
A man bought a fine horse that turned out to be stone blind. The seller admitted knowledge of the defect but claimed the buyer had not asked. A later buyer confronted the seller, who explained he assumed the issue wouldn’t be disclosed. The Ledger notes the humorous misunderstanding.
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