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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1920
Page
4
The Noodle Machine is described as a complete manufacturing unit that can produce noodles quickly. It runs on minimal power and can be adjusted to cut noodles from a thread width to half an inch. The device can be placed for customer viewing and cut noodles to order. It also notes varied serving ideas across cuisines and even desserts with butter and nuts.
Satirical musings on gender roles and wisdom mix with quips about pride, politics, and intellect. The piece riffs on a bachelor’s view of rights, promises, and clever schemes, concluding with a jab at money and law.
A reflective piece discusses honesty and deception as art, praising Adam for removing idleness and gifting labor. It notes people feel offense when not respected, while suggesting a private man keeps deeper impulses hidden.
A collage of quirky aphorisms and witticisms on nature truth ambition and money. The author muses on locating eggs in baskets tracing origins and the psychology of desire and need. The piece blends humor with moral reflections in a playful antique voice.
A collage of maxims on love and marriage contrasts with notes on agricultural revival. It cites that the best lies are self accepted, discusses a fat wife’s comfort, and suggests women prefer love to honor. It mentions steel windmills rising in overseas markets and a Buenos Aires spider that fishes, using a winged net to catch prey.
A Chicago man is in custody after using his twin brother’s clothes to impersonate him. The incident raises questions about identity theft and family boundaries as investigators sort the motive and consequences.
Fragmentary thoughts reflect on women who discuss their ailments in everyday conversation. The text suggests curiosity about how such talks influence social interaction without providing concrete events or dates.
Charles Francis Bedloe recalls riding with Justice John Marshall Harlan in Washington and noting the Supreme Court justice wore a scarab scarf pin. He says genuine scarab pins are scarce due to high demand, though museums hold large collections that won’t be sold.
The article argues for an international color standard to unify industries and aid comparison. It proposes using colored glasses to reproduce the standard and mentions a tentative instrument based on an arbitrary color scheme developed by Youth’s companion.
The Polar Circle is described as advancing toward the equator as the earth cools. It argues the planet will become cold and barren, with life retreating to a shrinking belt at the equator, which will eventually yield to the cold and the earth become a dead world.
The quote origins trace to Thomas Jefferson who framed the government as a states rights strict constructionist. He argued states create the federal government and grant it only powers lent for foreign or interstate business.
Excerpt from My Restless Life recounts San Francisco hostelry culture where class lines blur and a British traveler observes a register prank. H De Windt recalls a Palace entrance hall scene with racing figure White Hat Macarthy and a titled guest, illustrating carefree city manners.
A razor strop once lost at a dozen spots around the world has been delivered to FE W Stephens in Columbia from Blue Mountain Mississippi. It traveled via Kongkong Calcutta Jacob's Well near Shecan the Sea of Galilee and Cairo before reuniting with its owner.
Modern selling methods shown in Northwood lots sale running five days from Friday July 2. Two tags on each lot show price and terms with tearoff to deposit cash. Sold tags indicate unavailable plots and prices rise after sunset July 7 for any unsold lots.
Roger W Babson tells a tale to illustrate how responsibility shapes character. He describes a cat and a dog in the same backyard, noting the cat acts differently when she has kittens versus when she has none, and applies this to home ownership and defending what is dear.
A house south of Fredericksburg near the Potomac Railroad, where Stonewall Jackson died on May 10, 1863, is to be preserved as a Confederate landmark. The property was bought by the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad president and will be transferred to the company for park grounds, commemorating Jackson’s famed campaign near Chancellorsville.
A Southern railway conductor was discharged for color blindness but learned to name ordinary colors after studying colored nature and plants. In five weeks he passed a strict color test without error. Dr Brawley has helped others overcome color blindness with a similar program of color study.
A young visitor proclaims kissing is harmless despite fears of germs. He says he has kissed hundreds of girls and is not dead yet. A listener questions the effect on the girls in the crowd.
The article surveys torpedo development from David Bushnell in 1777 through 1805 experiments in Britain and later efforts. It notes Britain’s rejection of Pultes torpedoes in 1805 and cites Norway as the first country to order a fast torpedo boat built in England in 1873.
A plain looking lady visits a fiend as her child notices the friend's homely appearance. The child Laura blurts out that she is homely, triggering a polite rebuke and a reminder that calling someone pretty would be a harsher joke.
Everson argues for a comprehensive household reform that ends caste, reshapes domestic service, and ties progress to individual vocation chosen by genius with earnestness and love, not by parents or friends. The proposal links reform to higher thinking and a broader approach to social living.
An Arabian saying outlines four types of people based on awareness. The wise know they know and should be followed, the asleep know they know but do not act, the son ignores what he does not know, and the child should be taught by those who know.
A fragmented essay links dream symbolism from poets to Freudian theory. It notes trees as common dream images and discusses the dream censor, childhood morality, and the idea that dream symbols express repressed thoughts. It concludes with mystic views on trees as omens of prosperity or marriage.
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