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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1920
Page
4
An old style advertisement urges readers to prevent rheumatic twinges and muscle soreness with Sloan's Liniment. It touts sharp penetration without rubbing and notes 38 years of leadership and affordable sizes. It promotes prevention and quick relief for sciatic, lumbago, and joint pains.
The LU S Mine Sweeping Detachment returned from the North Seas where sailors aimed gunfire to destroy floating mines. The crew destroyed a large share of the 55 000 mines laid by the U S Navy and gained hard earned discipline and courage from the perilous duty.
A young officer bets a brother officer he can fool the Sergeant Major about why boiling water only starts at the edges. The sergeant major accompanies the youth to the cook house, and as water boils at the edges first, explains the edge water is for guards who eat early before the rest of the company.
A rough tale shows Rundy McPherson plotting an email venture and building a wall as dinner interrupts. Sandy, inspecting a worker named Jock, jokes about progress while a mentor figure praises his potential, noting the fond family line of builders and the boy’s emerging talent.
A speaker declares he has met at most two lovely women, prompting a bemused response from a woman who asks with innocence, "who was she otter?" in a light, teasing exchange.
A National Geographic bulletin summarizes Prof. Bingham and Prof. Lingham’s findings on Machu Picchu. The Incas used stone, ropes, and inclined planes to construct vast walls and suspension bridges without iron. They employed bronzes and obsidian for tools and trepanned skulls indicate surgery and battlefield wounds.
New York financier Arthur Loeb claims to have found his wife in Miss Hilda Freedman a private secretary in a business house. He recounts a chance Atlantic City meeting that led to their engagement and plans to marry within a month and sail for Buenos Aires.
Mary Vollen confessed to Alderman P J Marvin that she married two men within a year and lived a double life on one block in Pottsville Virginia. Both husbands Matthew Karacits and Vincent Vollen attended court in disbelief as bail was set at 5000 dollars.
In Anahuac Texas, a three month cash shortfall at Broussard & Bro. is traced to a mouse nest inside the cash register. A $200 check was chewed, a $10 bill found, and three newborn mice tied to the nest. An electric coffee percolator patent by a New York inventor noted.
James L. Yarbrough, 16, wed Miss Sadie Marguerite Patrick, 22, at the home of Rev. E P Lindsay in Memphis Tennessee. The couple, both connected to the St Paul grade school, now live with the bridegroom’s parents amid school policy changes following the marriage.
Neighbors in Fond Du Lac find Albert Engel hanging from a tree in his cornfield after a days absence. The body was mistaken for a scarecrow until Peter Raul discovered the farmer’s death. Engel reportedly hanged himself, hat still on, the wide brim hiding his features.
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