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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1918
Page
4
The essay compares fear of death across religious and secular perspectives, noting many brave figures despised bodily death yet pursued transcendence. It argues fear undermines life’s value and that acceptance of death is common to Christian, pagan, and atheist viewpoints.
Indiana men visiting Brown County learned a food administration pledge matters after the local farmer reminded them that every home in the hills displayed pledge cards in the window. The episode ends with a joke about missing fried chicken and biscuits and a lesson on wartime civics.
At a Trinidad Horticultural Club meeting samples of banana flour and bread were shown. The flour was made from green bananas picked five days earlier the silk fig variety and yielded 164 3/4 pounds from 63 pounds of fruit. The bread used two parts banana flour and one part wheat flour and the flour was noted as a substitute for oatmeal porridge and puddings.
The Medical Journal reports over 13 900 officers in the Army Medical Department including regulars and four reserve corps notes. It estimates at least 24 000 physicians will join the department at full strength and describes duties from enlistment to discharge. Hospital beds total about 25 percent of Army strength.
A Los Angeles Times essay argues that people often claim they are uniquely different from others. The piece contends this egoism masks ordinary humanity and that most individuals fall into a common human pattern rather than true exceptionalism.
A small electric furnace has started volatilizing tin from scrap at the United States Bureau of Mines Northwest experiment station in Seattle Washington. The Engineering and Mining Journal reports an extensive series of experiments to save tin wasted in discarded containers and other scraps.
Dialogue shows a couple seeking harmony by vows to avoid harsh words and disputes. The woman requests agreement, and the man agrees while asking about hidden clean socks previously promised to be darned. The exchange conveys domestic humor and a light domestic dispute over sock storage.
Second official crop estimate for 1917 18 places sugarcane acreage at 2 565 000 acres, up 10 percent from last year and 6 percent above the 1916 17 final figure. Provisional reports from provinces covering 99 percent of India's sugar area note rain floods disease and pests but overall prospects remain good.
Miss Mary Fraser of the War Savings Department told Washington listeners that British women munition workers earn equal pay with men and spend their gains on phonographs and fur coats while men buy sewing machines. She recounted a man who bought two sewing machines to fill two front windows after a machine appeared in only one.
Five Fathom Bank lying outside U S waters east of Wildwood New Jersey produced over 2500 tons of food fish in the past year valued at 238839 dollars to fishermen. Twenty one–pound nets were in use. A United States Bureau of Fisheries statistical agent visited Anglesea Wildwood and Sea Isle City New Jersey to collect these statistics.
The London Sphere describes the Zeppelin bomb dropping system used by the British. Conical bombs hang in one or two lines along the hull and release via a neck strap hook operated by an electro magnet and a cabin switchboard. Each bomb has a separate switch and a manual lever as a backup, with safety devices ensuring it activates only after several hundred feet.
Statement of receipts and expenditures for 1917 by E. E. Ruark trustee lists numerous payments to individuals for teaching, janitoring, transportation, gravel work, coal, and supplies. It shows receipts from county and bank accounts, transfers, interest, and final fund balances across road, school, tuition, dog, bond, and building funds, with total final balance $18 072.15.
The piece notes cider’s long popularity from Roman times and questions whether tax changes spurred renewed drinking. Henry Gunning’s Cambridge reminiscences recount 1788 Herefordshire scenes where farm laborers could drink freely, with men reportedly consuming four quarts from a wooden bottle without stopping.
Re reinforced concrete is increasingly used in place of iron and steel with Kingston Jamaica showcasing a concrete buoy. The buoy costs about half the price of a steel equivalent and features a concave bottom to protect the mooring chain. A grouted manhole cover is releasable and leakage is managed by a pump-hole.
TRUSTEES LISTED FOR Monroe Cloverdale Clinton Washington Floyd Marion and Greencastle townships, with each official outlining weekly hours to transact township business at designated offices or homes. Dates include Tuesdays Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays, plus specific store locations. Statewide phone contact accompanies entries.
Interurban timetable for Terre Haute to Indianapolis service of the A C T Co effective February 1 1917. Listed are morning and afternoon departures with limited trains and stops at Greencastle and Highlandes.
Monon Route timetable lists northbound and southbound trains between Chicago and Louisville with arrivals and departures at key stations. It notes daily operation, no parentheses on local freights, Pullman sleepers on night trains, parlor and dining cars on day trains, and directs readers to D Ellis for full time cards fares and through car information.
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