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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1921
Page
4
The London critic Malcolm Cowley reviews Arnold Bennett’s stance on precise language and repetition. Cowley cites Bennett’s dislike of inexact terms and discusses how repetition, when used deliberately, can yield elegance and brilliance rather than mere ugliness.
Dr. Mabel Elliott of the American Woman's Hospitals serving with Near East Relief reports many Armenian children under care at Ismid Turkey suffer enlarged hearts and other heart diseases from prolonged fear. The treatment blends mental reassurance with medical care, including a safe environment, nourishing diet, and prescribed exercises, with promising results.
The Department of Agriculture map shows frost limits for rose zones. Tea roses thrive in the South and California, or any area where March frosts end. Hybrid teas reach farther north to parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Arizona while last frosts occur in May in the Northwest. With winter earth or straw coverings many roses resist frost. Thousands of varieties exist with hundreds new each year, offering adaptable roses for nearly every region.
A guest aims to win favor with a host by winning the host’s children. Seven year old Mary dislikes him and remarks on his fur collar. He tries a smug line about fine feathers, and Mary quips that fine fur makes foxes too. The guest reddens with the exchange.
Paraguay proposes widespread physical training with wrestling and fencing taught in institutes. Gymnastics to be offered by eight corps of professors in schools and colleges. Local, national, and international games, plus lectures and sporting publications, will boost public participation in physical development.
A 67 year old man named John Shebee reportedly discovers an elixir of youth. He leaps streetcars and outruns a flivver before police apprehend him. Detectives Bierndt and Janaczak witness the feats and seize his money as he is taken into custody.
W. J. Mills, once reported killed by a train near Williamson West Virginia, arrived at his daughter Ida Malone's home in Parkersburg West Virginia to surprise his wife and two sons. He had been visiting friends in Youngstown Ohio and forgot to write. The family ponders what to do with the body buried in the family plot.
Guy W. Rollins chief engineer for a rock and gravel company operating in the Arroyo Seco installs crude sluice boxes and pans gold dust found in bed gravel. He nets about 20 dollars weekly from the crusted material, a pay streak discovered after joining the firm months ago and continuing to pan the material.
The article traces Canadian shipbuilding from 1605 with small Port Royal vessels to 1883 when the Royal William crossed the Atlantic powered by steam. It highlights Nova Scotia’s rise as a major shipbuilding region, the shift from wood to metal, and notes declines after 1875 as metal industry development lagged.
The article argues population growth rates would have crowded Earth if constant since Christ, noting 161 percent growth in England and Wales in a decade and substantial U S growth. It contrasts densely populated areas like China and the Ganges valley with sparsely populated regions such as Central Asia, Russia, the Americas, Africa, and Australia. It attributes historical devastation to Turkish conflicts affecting the Danube valley and Middle East regions, turning some areas into deserts.
The article explains a simple method to waterproof matches by dipping the heads and half the wooden portion in melted candle wax. After cooling they ignite even after long water immersion, requiring slightly firmer striking to break the wax film. Ordinary matches work with this treatment.
John Blake in the Chicago Daily News urges readers to value every hour. He says many achieve great things after 40, but time should not be hoarded. Plan, count hours, and assign tasks or profitable recreation to turn minutes into lasting energy and fortune.
In a humorous excerpt, a guest misreads the host's veranda party. The host corrects him revealing the girl in short dresses is the grandmother, the rider in breeches is the wife, and the tea gown wearer is the host's 10 year old daughter who enjoys great grandmother attire.
Vienna shows better living standards with plentiful food and bustling shops while finance remains chaotic. Reports note rising consumer goods, candy and pastry availability, white bread, and a return of normal dress among crowds. Bank notes and budgets reflect strain as Austria plans a League of Nations credit plan to back a new gold basis currency.
The feath erless duck nicknamed Fuzzy, a white Peklo cross bred by George Frey of Sunnyside duck farm, excites breeders who dream of a featherless duck farm. If 20 000 ducks are prepared for market, plucking costs drop and profits rise as Frey pursues a woollike duck that sheds the need for hired pluckers.
A librarian at Kansas Wesleyan University received relics from Brorson, including American corn cobs and a faded item from Verde. The artifacts are intended for placement in the museum collection this year.
A garbled entry notes corn and beans and references a harvest scene. The text mentions a pea or corn crop and pickers, suggesting agricultural activity and possible loss or preservation concerns. The fragment lacks clear names, places, or dates to specify events.
The piece recalls a young Republican in the fifth row who covertly signals with a gilded button to a companion. They slip past guardians, reach the aisle, and improvise a playful game for an hour amid tense state matters, ignoring the grand words above.
Lord Leverhulme, a major British manufacturer, argues in a British Industrial Safety First meeting that dawdling shortens life more than hustling. He cites American data showing longer, healthier lives for active workers and asserts that continuous work preserves life and national prosperity.
A Chicago American note recounts a shopper’s two store visit where a millinery owner, who ran both shops, tauntingly called her a mere sightseer with no intent to buy. The shopper fled in anger after being mocked while deciding between hats.
A bronze female figure with a helmet symbolizing Victory is found in a packing case at the federal parliament house yard. The statue, a gift from Bertram Mackennal, commemorates Australian soldiers and was received from London twelve months ago. The base of the statue was in a separate case. the oversight is corrected and Australia extends thanks to the sculptor.
In Pittsburgh a nine story modern building filled with hardware was moved 75 feet by 12 laborers. Ninety pound rails totaling 120 supported the track on which the structure rolled. The sidewalks and basement, including an operating engine and boiler, traveled with the building while customers moved about as usual.
A brief humorous note from the American Legion Weekly quotes Mrs. Brooks saying she has no fault with her husband. The remark implies she long ago found all his faults, delivered in a wry, period voice.
Three Norwegians Capt Mimer Tonning Otthar Petterson and Helge Westerling plan to sail an open 20 foot life boat sloop rigged with a 32 foot sail hoist. They will start from Sandy Hook cross the Atlantic via Scilly Azores Gibraltar Suez Sumatra Philippines Hawaii Panama canal and back to New York taking 16 to 18 months.
Mrs Rosita Forbes the explorer criticizes British women for adopting masculine attire and habits. She warns that cutting hair and mannish garb erode womanliness while clergy denounce women for drinking smoking and swearing.
Holcomb seven miles west of Garden City dedicates one of America's most elaborate consolidated schools costing 225000 dollars. Seven districts joined to form the plant with a 605 pupil capacity, bus transport by teachers, and facilities for agriculture, manual training, and domestic science.
Assumption Illinois funeral honors Dr R W Johnson who died at 71 after 45 years of practice in Christian county. The service was held in the shade of a massive hackberry tree he tended for forty years. Locals say the tree stands about 800 feet tall and spans the yard, a landmark of the state.
Felix O. Rustand former circus animal trainer took lions from Bridgeport to Short Beach to satisfy a claim by performer Irene Castello. He asked Judge John Booth for a court order to have them treated as perishable, arguing keeping the animals costs more than losing the claim and that the lions were “eating their heads off.”
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