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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1915
Page
3
Matkin, a carpenter from Greencastle, reports kidney pain and frequent trouble after a railroad wreck. He credits Joan's Kidney Pills with immediate improvement, saying he felt relief from the first use. The remedy sells for 50 cents at all dealers and is distributed by Foster-Milburn Co.
Notice to non residents for Levi Linder estate filed by W M Sutherlin attorney. Defendants Isaac Linder and Francis Balies must answer by the 48th day after notice, or the court may proceed. The filing is in Putnam Circuit Court Greencastle Indiana with clerk R J Hamrick. Pearl Newgent deputy. St weekly Jan 1st 1915.
An advertisement notes that taking Chamberlain's tablets can improve disorders of the skin and complexion while boosting overall health. It promises better health and fairer skin as a remedy offered for sale by a local seller.
London Tit-Bits recounts two comical incidents of very heavy men: Signor Lablanche the famed bass finds a four wheeler collapses under him at Covent Garden, leaving him squeezed on the edge and then standing in the road. Nearby, the Pope brothers both over forty stone suffer a similar collapse on Waterloo Bridge as bystanders laugh.
The Legion of Honor was established on May 19, 1802 by Napoleon as a reward for meritorious military and civil service. It has withstood changes in government, from the Bourbons to the republics, and has honored Americans, British, and other foreigners.
The piece notes that statistics cannot quell fear of thunderstorms. It cites Lichtenberg who warned that public panic would rise if dysentery appeared as a looming storm, as six deaths in Gottingen surpass lightning deaths here in fifty years, illustrating how perception shapes danger.
The piece recalls Cracow and its neutral status under Austrian protection after 1815. During the 1840s Polish uprisings led Austria to occupy Cracow, with Metternich choosing to uphold the czar’s proposal. In 1846 the last fragment of independent Poland vanished, a decade after Peel speculated on renewed Polish independence.
The Cali fornia crew, returning to port with a captured whale and ambergris valued at $1,000, chased a second bull whale. Lacking a harpoon they improvised one from a stok er's poker, finally harpooning from the stern and hauling aboard the carcass, sparking a dispute over the spoils due to ambergris.
A new courting parlor for engaged couples has been built as an annex to the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in Cincinnati to aid young boarders. A saying by Fielding on wisdom is cited, followed by a light note about a traveling squirrel and rail tickets.
A newly invented automatic signal and train control reduces risk by slowing or stopping trains without engineer input. It reads block signals via lights and automatically applies air brakes on red, preventing collisions as tested on the Queen & Crescent line in Cincinnati Ohio.
The report discusses lumber use in pencil making, weed seed research at Minnesota Agricultural College, US erosion rates from the Geological Survey, a wheeled submarine boat for the Navy, a brainless child case by German doctors, blood crystal age race testing, a 100 ton English steel ingot, horse pulse speed, and a Telechronometer device for measuring telephone use.
The device uses a four bladed fan suspended over a rocking chair connected by a flexible shaft to levers and cogs moved by chair motion. Inventor A J Schroder of Donaldsville Louisiana claims a swing mode could circulate air through the room.
A humorous lament on court jesters and press humorists grounded in Walt Mason's verse. It notes the joker’s loneliness and toil behind fame, pawned spoons, lumbago, and the brave craft of making readers laugh despite hardship.
The piece argues that the true burden is the mortgage of vice on character, worse than any debt on a home. It contrasts nicotine and alcohol habits with financial mortgages, noting a clean life preserves self respect even when material wealth is lost.
Nine pastors in Los Angeles collaborated to deliver one sermon to nine congregations one Sunday. The plan highlights varied gifts from illustration to theology and evangelistic zeal. The note praises the method as a strong use of diverse talents in sermon creation.
Nellie Mortimer helps fix a fence while a passerby Karl Bell offers help. A smash of the hammer incapacitates both thumbs, sparking a playful bet on who can drive a nail. The incident leads to romance as the cook jokes about marriage following a hog encounter. The tale ends with hopeful hints of a wedding in the future.
A California inventor creates an electric signal light that pierces dense fog better than any prior device. It periodically draws carbons apart to stretch the arc, producing brilliant flashes.
Wisconsin dairyman notes Brown Swiss cattle as large, well formed, with dark to light chestnut color and distinctive facial features. The piece praises breed integrity and cross-compatibility with other cattle, and discusses cheap cream separators and the value of concentrated feed stuffs in crop rotation for profitable dairy farming.
The text provides guidance on milk handling for dairy cows, separating milk warm through a separator, cooling cream promptly, and avoiding mixing warm with cooled cream. It also covers air and cleanliness for cans, drying and storing vessels, paraffin dipping cheese, and keeping rooms under 40 degrees with dry air to prevent molding. It adds guidance on feeding pigs and a note on hog water needs and ideal sheep ground.
In deep seated colds it relieves the lungs makes breathing easier liquifies mucus and eases the cough aiding nature to restore health. Mrs B Walters of Decatur NL says it cured a deep seated lung cold fifteen years ago and has since used it with lasting results. For sale by all dealers.
The speaker states they will be at home in Filmore on Tuesdays and Fridays to conduct trustee business for Marion Township.
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