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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1918
Page
4
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The piece argues bananas are highly useful and can feed a growing population. It compares yields an acre of wheat to bananas, notes starch turning to sugar as bananas ripen, and cites Edgar Wallace Conable on eating green bananas. It advises eating bananas when the skin turns black and to peel before eating.
A Santa Fe official recalls a Kansas freight wreck where a head brakeman was thrown into a cornfield but survived. Amid the chaos, the crew rushed to Bill, asking about the beans warming on the stove as cars piled up, with total losses estimated around 75 to 101 thousand dollars.
Statement by J. H. Sears trustee covers Madison Township 1917 finances. Expenditures list includes teaching and transportation payments to multiple individuals, supplies, repairs, and services. Receipts show interest from Central Trust Co and county and town transfers. final fund balances total 8128.33 with warrants outstanding 311.00 at year end.
The railway agent’s life is busy from dawn to dusk as he checks coal, handles waybills, and manages telegraph and tickets. He answers phones, sells steamship tickets, and hangs signs while balancing eight hours of demanding tasks. Only the town girls seem to envy his constant contact with brakemen.
A boastful cyclist bets he can ride along the road until the church clock strikes six. He starts near five, but the village clock does not strike at all, prompting a blunt correction from a bystander in London Tit-Bits.
Census data show hundreds of American girls marry at age fifteen each year and thousands at sixteen. Eleven of every hundred women wed before nineteen, with New England yielding one in fifteen proposals before twenty. In the South one in five or six nineteen or under receive offers. rural areas offer better chances.
The highest temperature ever reached by man is claimed to be 9400 degrees F by English researchers Sir Andrew Noble and Sir F Abel. They produced it by exploding cordite in a steel cylinder, noting the rapid reduction and brief duration as an interesting scientific feat.
London Tit-Bits describes a nameless town on Saginaw Bay with about 130 wooden huts on wheels. Three fishermen per hut use live herring to lure fish, then harpoon with multiple-prong spears, sometimes catching 200 fish in a day. Torches light the scene at night drawing fish.
The article explains that otolites or ear stones grow with the fish and form annual rings like trees. The number of rings indicates age, with more rings signifying an older fish, providing a precise age determination despite varying growth conditions.
The article explains potash as a vital fertilizer element with major sources at the Saxon deposits in Staßfurt and in Alsace. It notes the mineral's widespread presence in compounds yet limited bulk mass yields, making large scale extraction costly.
Chicago Indianapolis Louisville Railway timetable lists northbound trains 4 6 12 to Lafayette and southbound 3 11 5 to Louisville French Lick with No passenger local freights run daily. Night trains offer Pullman sleepers and day trains dining and parlor cars. for full time cards fares and through car details, address requested.
The Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Co releases an effective February 1 1917 timetable listing last bound and west bound trains. Listed services show limited trains with stops at Greencastle and Highlandex including morning and afternoon departures and arrivals throughout the day.
In a 1990s Canada friendly against the Queen's Own a blind American rifleman faced a tense finale at 800 yards. With 23 needed to tie, 24 to win, he totaled 25 with a bull’s eye after spectators crowded a firing line and the commander urged a fair show.
A bitter wife confronts her husband about his vanished affection. She reads a month-old love letter and laments the contrast with their one month of marriage as he mumbles in response, dining over a cold supper. The scene ends with the husband muttering a cruel remark.
A guide recommends daintily prepared edibles for visiting an invalid. Nourishing broths and soups, wine jellies, custards and light puddings, creamed chicken and oysters, grapefruit, mandarin oranges and white grapes provide appetizing options. A jar of preserved ginger may suit some patients.
The article notes size distinguishes fishes of different ages, but size only helps estimate young fish age. For older fish, growth varies, so size ceases to indicate precise age.
A London hospital reports surgeries removing portions of the colon to test the idea that much of the large intestine is unnecessary and potentially dangerous. The discussion revisits Metch nikoff’s view that these parts are not only useless but hazardous to health.
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