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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1919
Page
2
The notice lists pricing for obituaries and cards of thanks. Obituaries cost $1 each. Cards of thanks priced at 50 cents each. Miscellaneous rates include annual, quarterly and weekly options with various small charges. Poetry may incur an additional fee.
Locust Street M. E. Church sets Sunday school at 9 30 with H B Loneden superintendent Preaching at 10 10 by Rev F P Leckliter from Indianapolis The Epworth League leads at 6 30 and Mary Clapp directs morning service at the Presbyterian church Locust Street pastor to preach at both morning and afternoon Flatwood schoolhouse hosts an all day meeting with music by Prof Harry Maxwell and a sermon on Writing Your Own Biography
Levi Marshal pastor leads Sunday school at 9 30 with Cora O Brien superintendent and G W Conklin directing music. Charles McGaughey heads men’s class. Preaching at 7 40 titled How to Please God with Kathleen James singing. Union evening service at Presbyterian church led by Rev Dorf Nichols. All welcome.
Multiple small ads: wood and fence posts for sale, Jersey cow for sale, printing trade helper wanted, arm loans and titles, farmer tenant wanted, general help wanted in Putnam county, pasture rental, locating fence posts, local visitors from Crawfordsville, lost car crank on East Washington Street.
A polite clerk asks a woman to detail a red leather handbag found on a train. She lists items such as a lace edged handkerchief, matinee tickets, silk samples, keys, gloves, spools of thread, and a fruit salad recipe among the muddled contents.
A Philadelphia naturalist describes the spreading adder or blowing viper. The snake feigns danger by hissing and playing dead to mislead observers, but cannot harm a person if handled. It grows about thirty inches, is reddish brown with blotches, and hunts toads and insects.
A new neighbor receives an invitation to a social event and, in murky weather, wears storm rubbers over her party footwear. She discovers at departure that the coverings showed from her dressy slippers to her hosiery, exposing the unusual combination to public view.
The article notes judges’ split on whether breaking out qualifies as burglary at common law. It cites Lawson vs Com LRA 1915D 972, which holds burglary may be proven by breaking out under statutes punished for feloniously entering and taking value. The ruling urges liberal construction of derogation statutes to fulfill their objects.
The article notes that lightning ignites four of every ten fires destroying oil tanks. It contrasts barns churches and schoolhouses where lightning accounts for one in five, one in six, and one in twenty fires respectively, highlighting oil tanks as highly vulnerable to lightning strikes.
A Queens property owners official challenged a uniformed officer by claiming authority to enter a home. The cop refused, the man produced a summons for an unleashed dog, and the episode ended with a $5 fine cited by the New York Correspondence Pittsburgh Dispatch.
A historic note highlights how Queen Victoria era stamps dominated issues with 3793 portraits by 1909, Edward VII adding 1080, and Honivar leading nonroyal counts at 215. The piece recalls early debates over royal imagery and a special frame postmark for Ferdinand of Sicily.
A survey traces wheat harvesting month by month across the globe from Argentina in January to Peru and South Africa in November and December. The article also notes a sleep study by Professor Jastrow and a Horsham, England rook that learned about a hundred words from two schoolchildren.
A humorous exchange shows a father warning his own son may face federal troubles someday. The father boasts the boy’s knack for collecting toy trains, claiming he has half the block’s toys.
The Hudson River is thick with ice used as a makeshift boulevard between Tarrytown and Nyack. Judge Arthur S. Tomkins commutes daily from Nyack to White Plains by car, crossing the river twice each day. Freight congestion on the west side drives Nyack residents to cross at Tarrytown, and a Nyack store sent a truck from Tarrytown to supply goods after a delay.
Dialogue fragment shows Mrs Mhetush and Mrs Behsenhorst debating duty and loss. The street scene recalls a camp poker incident where a man allegedly lost six dollars in one night. The text is garbled but implies wartime circumstances and personal stakes.
There is not anything like so many deaths from this disease now as before Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy came into general use. When given with castor oil as directed and proper diet, about ninety nine out of a hundred recover. Mr. W G Campbell of Butler Tennessee says he has used Chamberlain's Coke and Diarrhoea Remedy for summer complaint in children and it is far ahead of anything he has ever used.
The entry lists consultation hours from 9 to 11 a m and 2 to 5 p m with additional times by appointment. It provides office and residence addresses, phone numbers, and locations including 13 East Walnut Street opposite the post office and 505 Elm Street residence.
The notice explains that a temporary loss of appetite is not serious and suggests skipping meals occasionally to regain hunger. It advises five hours between meals, moderate outdoor exercise, and treats constipation with Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy.
Mrs Henry Jewett of Clark Mills New York recalls a severe summer complaint attack and says Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy relieved her almost instantly. The advertisement promotes the remedy as essential for every family and notes sale by R P Mullins and leading druggists.
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