This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 17 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1920
Page
2
The Greencastle publication lists charges for obituaries at $3 each and poetry line items, with acknowledgement cards or thanks and other notices priced per item. It notes a business address at 17 and 19 South Jackson Street and a local phone number.
The State Highway Commission invites sealed bids for grading and culvert work on National Road sections in Clay Putnam Counties Brazil to Manhattan and Manhattan to Mt. Meridian. Bids due 10:00 A M July 28 1920. Plans $5 per set with bonds required. Director L H Wright notes right to reject bids.
A fisherman explains an informal measure of legal fish size by using notches sawed into the boat seat. If a fish nose reaches one notch and tail reaches the other, it is kept. if not, it is discarded overboard.
A traveller in Scotland recalls a farmer paying ground rent of about $20 yearly who wrote Gaelic poetry of high merit. He also notes a youth who rode from home to a seaport then to Aberdeen to sell a horse and enter university. A Scot quoted Homer in Greek, preferring original texts over translations.
Bishop Woodbridge of Kentucky recalled a reunion brawl among mountaineers. An old woman described Jem Lewis and Hank Badds clashing with a stick, Jem’s brother wounding Hank with a knife, Lou Barry shot in the leg, Larry Stover striking with an axe, and the crowd concluding with fighting.
Dean Byron Cummins and University of Utah archaeologists report the first anthropological find in southern Utah a four legged animal of unknown origin. The cranium resembles an ancient Indian with a sloping forehead and average brain size while the intact backbone shows six vertebrae like a coyote. Some locals speculate a freak sheep offshoot others a human link. The remains are housed in the University of Utah museum after guides resisted removal as a sacred object.
A London line near Rockliffe station paused a fast express after the engineer spotted a red object by the track. It proved to be a woman’s red parasol at a level crossing awaiting passage. The incident recalls a similar misread signal from the Old Colony Railroad years ago.
Boone Bennett, a veteran Kansas City track walker, has spent nineteen years on night shifts for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in the Kansas City division. He has logged over 122 780 miles on night rounds plus day walking, totaling a lifetime of extensive track travel.
The term era of good feeling arose to describe James Monroe's eight year administration from 1817 to 1825. It first appeared in the Columbian Sentinel newspaper on July 10, 1817 and has since framed public sentiment about that period in Boston and beyond.
A guest at a Paris area restaurant complains about a half chicken he ordered. The proprietor quips that he must wait until someone else orders the other half, noting they cannot go out to kill half a chicken. The exchange is attributed to Gil Bas.
The Maine Central announces a crackdown on vagrants with conductors and telegraph alerts guiding police to stations. Tramps are arrested, brought to court, and jailed for thirty to ninety days for evading fares, per Railway Age Gazette.
The text explains two bamboo types used in building and cabinet making: solid bamboo with smaller stems seen in Japanese furniture and hollow bamboo, both from the same species.
The article says a favored group in Mexico profits from a tobacco exemption. It notes that natives can buy two boxes of cigarettes, ten per box, for a 2 percent tax in their currency.
The report notes that nut trees could nourish the world’s population and that brassnote grows plentifully with large waste. It highlights Australia and Argentina pasture one third of the world’s sheep, Japan’s female workforce outnumbers males, and Australians remain leading tea drinkers.
Fourteen fishermen aboard the Red Cross liner Florizel report hearing heavenly music from a huge iceberg 260 miles off Newfoundland near St Johns. Olaf Henderson describes two spired towers rising from mist as the sun broke through, with a choir like cantata and chimes, later attributed to windholes in the ice.
A California ranchman solved a problem of oddly freze joints by inventing an engagement ring that can be taken apart and adjusted to the finger. It uses two tiny pins and a miniature lock and key to secure it, with a US patent issued.
G B Schoepf of Minneapolis found a cedar knot shaped like a grotesque head two miles above Hastings. The knot, untouched by tools, was polished by wear and kept as a relic. The note adds crop damage from insects totaling 590 million dollars annually.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.