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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1913
Page
2
An Owl Drug Store advertisement touts Hollister R. M. Tea as a beauty aid for clear complexion, bright eyes, and red lips, claiming it works through the blood.
W. D. Magli of Whitemound Wisconsin bought a stock of Chamberlains medicine to serve customers. After receipt he fell ill and says one small bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was worth more to him than the cost of his entire stock. For sale by all dealers.
Sufferers of Stomach and Liver ailments are urged to try Mayrs Wonderful Stomach remedy. A Roa oke Va man reports gall stones passed after treatment and credits the medicine with restoring health. The ad urges readers to ask their druggist about results and to request a free book from Geo H. Mayr Mfc Chemist in Chicago.
Instructional guide describing a Halloween pumpkin fountain crafted from a hollow pumpkin bowl and stacked leaf stalks. readers are told how to assemble a long vine tube, suspend the bowl from a tree, and use water to create a decorative jet with a cork plug to fine tune the spray.
A Washington Star rhyme describes a toddler learning to walk and the mother's steady support keeping him safe. A Mining World note explains that lead pipes are made by melting lead and pouring into a mold.
The Wide World Magazine describes new diamond fields in German South Africa where tiny yet abundant stones are found in open sand deserts. Native workers crawl on hands and knees, sifting surface sand daily, often ten miles from camp, enduring blazing sun and dust storms in a harsh landscape.
A London Chronicle writer recalls in a lighthearted honeymoon tale how a railway guard mistakenly shuffled a little girl onto the couple’s compartment causing embarrassed laughter. The bride and groom are identified, and Walter frowns as the girl asks about birds. The scene ends with a humorous mishearing about love birds.
A study of Krakatoa recovery after the 1883 eruption notes plant regrowth from 1886 onward. Interior flora differed from coastal species with ferns prominent. by 1903 forest trees showed rapid progression toward dense reconstruction. Researchers suggest windborne and oceanic dispersal carried initial colonizers and seeds.
A Washington Times tourist in Georgia stayed overnight at a village Palace Hotel and ordered a whole Georgia opossum with potatoes. The landlord charged two dollars extra, sparking a dispute as he explained it took six nights of swamp wading to catch the animal and the rheumatism that came with it.
Archaeologists debate Fort Ancient age in Warren County Ohio with Warren K Moorehead asserting 800 to 900 years and insisting grave artifacts may be later intrusions. He warns that consensus will require years of study and exploration before the mystery is settled.
The electric surgical knife tested by Prof. Bler of Berlin uses a glass handle with a conducting wire and a probe blade that emits a spark at high frequency. It cuts tissue as a hot knife would, promising faster healing but more bleeding than standard operations. In a separate note a man boasts about monoplane wings and free distribution, claiming sport as the motive behind innovation.
Notes for women readers describe a new wire clothes pin that prevents soil on garments. Made from single twisted wire with a springy iron portion, the device hooks to the clothes line and grips firmly without slipping. The design aims to replace old wooden pins and promises cleaner, more secure drying.
A piece discusses how hair color and skin tone interact with color choices. It notes blue eyes suit blondes with orange hair, greens and violets risk clashing with brunettes, and yellow complements violet while red and orange tones require caution. It also advises cautious sun exposure and skin care for healthy, attractive skin.
The piece notes tasselled stockings with tiny embroidered love knots appearing on silk hosiery. It mentions Irish crochet collars remaining popular with fine hand embroidered linen and batiste fabrics. It also comments on the costly yet lasting appeal of electric needle work for permanent results.
The Panama Canal Zone uses a two division system for employees the gold division includes engineers clerks bookkeepers auditors and others paid in U S currency while the silver division covers mechanics laborers and many West Indian American and European workers paid in Panama currency. Heat exposure in gas works blast furnaces and ships is noted as especially harsh. Titanium and vanadium detected in Mira and sunspots linking stellar and solar activity.
A Nature writer links Sicily quake weather to fog and mist near Messina and Mexican quake in January 1899, noting frequent rainfall after earthquakes may signal a real link. Milne suggests ground disturbance could cause precipitation explaining quake weather associations. A Dundee Advertiser item then laments fake Swiss flags as century relics sold to tourists, dyed faded and tattered at sun and mouse-gnawed stalls.
An anecdote about Miss Ould at a Richmond dinner with lawyers. A neighbor taunts a Münchausen-like doctor of law boasting a $30,000 fee spent on a spree. Miss Ould fires back with a sharp quip about the “animated bust” to the amusement of onlookers.
A reflective note on personal trials and moral choice. The speaker likens modern struggles to heroic battles and urges virtue over vice, invoking timeless archetypes of the Sphinx and ancient heroines.
Bangkok, built on both riverbanks with many canals, offers passageways to all city areas for all motor craft.
I W Key a Greencastle Indiana farmer testifies after fifteen years of kidney pain that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved back pain and nervous symptoms. He had used one box and found notable improvement. For sale by all dealers price fifty cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents United States Remember the name Doan's and take no other Adv
Admonition cites causes such as sedentary life, lack of outdoor exercise, poor chewing, constipation, torpid liver, worry and overeating. Recommends correcting habits and taking Chamberlain's Tablets with claim of quick improvement. States product is for sale by all dealers.
The Monon Route announces on sale rover trip tickets to Atlantic and Pacific Coast resorts and points in Colorado Michigan and more. Write to W W Gilgis Traveling Passenger Agent Bedford for literature and complete information by return mail.
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