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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1920
Page
4
The article describes barking sands near Manchester New Hampshire and Kauai Hawaii noting wind driven silica grains forming conical dunes. It cites spherical grains and a thin gas film causing hums and shrill sounds. Hawaiian locals attribute the noises to ghosts, as dunes have long served as burial sites.
A New York Post writer cites a wagging, humorous aerial view of balky horses. He claims two thirds of balkers are gray and notes odd traffic delays tied to color. He adds single horses resist more than pairs and explains carts of milk, bakers, pickles, candy, and flowers sometimes deter effort to move.
The Santa Maria Novella perfumery in Florence and a Rome shop founded by monks built a global reputation. Monastic directors added recipes, with “Balsam Innocenzianno” and rhubarb elixir among famed products, while the convent gardens supplied herbs for cosmetics and medicines.
A former secretary to a New York society woman recounts the luxury class’s covert ways. She details smuggling schemes to dodge duties and expensive clothes bought on approval used to copy patterns, with shopkeepers deterred by the patronage power of the wealthy.
In a drought era a baraseed amateur agriculturist visits a shop for a barometer. The shopkeeper gives basic instructions while the purchaser interrupts asking how to set it to induce rain. The anecdote comes from the Yorksire Post.
Fragmentary dialogue references a Palm Room and waiters of different degrees. The exchange among characters mentions conspicuous pals and a line about bearing observers, attributed to Lopden Byorting Tees. The text appears as a literary or satirical excerpt with unclear context.
In Tyrolean mountains custom has wives and children sing at bedtime from shore as fishermen answer from the Adriatic. The wives’ melodies greet their loved ones as they return, strengthening bonds across the sea for weary sailors.
A young man in Locus atrest near Ritteshouse Square reports his photo record, with 709 pictures over ten years from many cameras and costumes. The collection hangs in his home, inspiring odd tales and trick poses. A copper mine find reveals a mummified miner reportedly dating 2000 years, with copper oxide preserving the body.
The Birmingham plant operates as the world’s largest pin factory, producing about 37,009,000 pins each working day at full capacity, reflecting industrial scale and efficiency.
A New York swindle tale unfolds as con artists pose as safe investors offering unlimited capital. A trusting applicant pays 199 to 500 for a bogus audit, only to learn the lenders' examination shows no investment, revealing a widespread scam practiced by many promoters.
The article describes how wind creates ocean waves along a cyclone’s path, with wind speed dictating wave height and length. It compares wind driven sand and snow drifts in deserts and Winnipeg prairies, noting regular wave-like formations and ghostlike motion, and cites examples from Chicago’s dunes.
A playful letter from a woman asks what to use for carpet cleaning. The editor quips that if she is married she should use her husband, reflecting humorous newspaper banter from the era.
A navigator recounts to Fraser a wild yarn of the Manhattan Iceberg Syndicate. An iceberg adventure escalates from a Newfoundland to a supposed Spanish Armada treasure claim to be towed to New York. The tale ends with a cryptic message about providence and a blind bird.
A veteran boarder recalls a dining room fiasco with a saw knife used to cut tough steak in a New York boarding house. After a loud table display and a surprised landlady entry, the boarder is told to vacate as punishment for mocking the landlady.
A Housewife recalls a former vegetable seller in a city market. The stall is now occupied by a new firm and a different worker. When she learns the old woman has died the man at the next stall quips she is likely happy now and no longer has to read at all.
The passage lists supposed signs of negro blood in white individuals, claiming Northern people lack knowledge and can be deceived by octoroons. It describes eye sclera, skin tone, and nail bed coloration as indicators, asserting these traits vary by degree of mulatto ancestry.
Moe Clure discusses how modern liners with multiple compartments reduce catastrophe risk from berg collisions. He warns older ships with fewer bulkheads face doom when ramming ice, noting many vanishings linked to berg encounters near Grand Paris and other seas.
A two headed chicken born on August Woeckner’s Willow Brook road farm astonishes neighbors at Bitteri's on Richmond turn Pike. The bird, with two heads and limited movement, confuses its mother hen and dizzily questions its path as farmers plan to study or raise more.
Prof Frederick W Mott at the Royal Institution discusses brain weight findings from historical measurements. He notes 88 percent of great minds weighed above average but that weight does not equate to quality. Data include racial and gender comparisons with specific ounce and ounce figures for European male and female brains.
A fragmentary quote from the Atchison Globe urges reflection on human folly and excuses. It muses that every man creates a different name when he sneezes and questions what people do on Sunday to feel tough on Monday.
A visiting American clergyman asks a workman if the church is High Church. The workman, after thinking, replies that it is thirty five feet to the ridge pole, offering a humorous local answer.
A London Nation essay reviews Alfred Ruffin’s verse on cats, praising feline grace and self sufficiency. It contrasts cat esteem with dog devotion, notes cats as moral critics of human vanity, and envisions a future philosophy set by a self-contented cat observing humanity. The piece cites historical writers like Bellarin, Gani or, Loti, and Spenser.
The text notes farm property value increasing by 3 billion dollars between 12 and 1907, a rise nearly nine times larger than the aggregate national banking capital of the United States, highlighting a dramatic growth disparity.
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