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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1921
Page
2
The notice lists charges for Cards of Thanks at 0.80 per card and obituaries at 1.00 each at the gate, with a 5 cent per line charge for all poetry included in the notice.
Chicago reports a wave of employer dress policies banning flashy attire for office and sales girls. Departments limit outfits to dark colors and modest styles, with bans on transparent waists, stockings, and gum. Officers note hiring can hinge on demonstrated modest dress, while some workers switch to flashier clothes after securing jobs.
In a future Assyrian state a woman will lead the government as president after the parliament is formed. Lady Surma, already the first woman ambassador, helped win 80 000 square miles of Kurdish mountains from Britain. She studied under British tutors and speaks several languages. Her brother Mar Chinon, once patriarch, was murdered.
The wool clip for western Canada is expected to reach about 5,000,000 pounds. Alberta’s share is around 2,200,000 pounds, roughly matching last year. Manitoba Saskatchewan and British Columbia together are forecast to contribute about 3,000,000 pounds.
A camel on a train tries to claim a full Pullman section. A courteous man offers the reserved space to the young woman, but she monopolizes the seat with her belongings, prompting the man to retreat to the smoking car until Evansville.
William C. Redfield recalls a moment in school when a paper wad hit a yawning classmate’s mouth to yield the biggest thrill of his life. He describes aiming the wad with perfect luck and later tries other feats without matching that single stroke of chance.
Paris officials tell Americans that high living costs and profiteering by hoteliers and furnishers push prices up. Publicity urged as a remedy with calls for hotels to publish rates while noting furnished apartments command 300 to 1000 percent increases and tenants forced to buy overpriced furniture.
Lou Hoong-Shen, famed as the Caruso of China, died in a Shanghai theater where he earned ten thousand dollars weekly. Born poor, he rose from obscurity to become a musical star after a late discovery in Shanghai. The Chinese tenor died from a burst blood vessel in the throat, echoing Caruso’s illness.
A rancher reports selling numerous fox pairs to European buyers, mainly Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland, with demand growing abroad. High feeding costs slow expansion but rising breeding stock prices may offset expenses, and current exchange rates pose a challenge though buyers adapt. The article foresees a bright future for a European fox industry.
A Nebraska case shows air mail pilots crossing a flooded river to save a dying woman after the post office department is said to have been humanized. Dr Selby and A Sinder sought authority to fly, risking delays that could have cost a life, highlighting Hays as a happy official in Washington.
The Tidewater Oil Company, a Standard Oil subsidiary, gained control of the Guffey-Gillespie Oil company after forcing resignations of Joe Guffey and other directors. Guffey had led vast holdings in midcontinent, Texas, and Colombia, fighting to defend stock value that collapsed amid bears and bank writedowns.
A visitor to Craigenort tock, Carlyle’s Scottish home, describes the gray two story whinstone house as solid and unsightly with no regard for aesthetics. It sits among outbuildings and fir trees, on bleak moorland near a solitary hill farm, with Dumfries sixteen miles away. The nearby sheep and dreary landscape add to the isolation.
A Devonshire farmer dreams of a pit on his land three nights in a row and sees a digger by lantern light. He later encounters his maid who confesses a quarrel with her lover and reveals a grave the dream warned against, with a spade and a knife nearby. The King.
Bargains promote 45 cent beans and a space for saving money. The notice emphasizes value and future savings, urging readers to watch for more offers.
A New London dispatch tells how a Noank fisherman sold 2700 pounds of lobsters for over 300 dollars helping him cover spring costs for pots and buoys. The dealer who resold to a summer hotel funded a new warehouse wharves and office buildings, while the hotel owner recollects paying down a large mortgage from a ten story marble wing addition.
London reports Dr A Pannekeck asserts a vast celestial gas or dust cloud in Taurus with mass 20,000,000,000 times that of the sun. He says the object dwarfs many universe mass estimates and represents a colossal cosmic feature.
The Navy reports progress in using flashless star shells as a substitute for searchlights. Tests show shells light a wide sea area for minutes from the firing ship without revealing its position, especially with three inch guns. large guns still show some discharge flash.
Widespread destitution in London leads to more gold coins in circulation. Citizens bring out sovereigns and half sovereigns that were rarely used in recent weeks, signaling a shift from hoarding to spending as unemployment bites.
Fragmentary timetable shows tram and transit times with scattered numbers and letters. The readable bits indicate early morning to late afternoon intervals and line codes, but most specifics are garbled.
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