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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1920
Page
4
A gust swept a woman’s hat from her head on Park Row and rolled across a car. A man explains women pin hats with multiple pins to prevent loss, noting wind disruption and the impracticality of keeping a hat on. He praises women’s engineering of hatpins but admits hats still blow loose in gusts. The scene captures the daily hazard of windy city streets and the humorous responses of bystanders.
Washington DC article explains how farmers should assess loan purpose and size before borrowing. It cites production-focused use, loan period, and borrower returns to cover interest and principal, with banks offering advisers to ensure funds aid profitable improvements.
Clara rejects a lover's romantic plea and a token of affection holds no real value. Percy asks for a lock of hair and a curl before Clara, who unhooks her switch and quotes the price. Rivers returns home, growling to hush the noise of his shins in the dark hallway.
A quotation from the New York Sun features a man who dislikes holidays and prefers his steady work routine. He notes Sundays as his day of rest, but he believes holidays disrupt meals, schedule, and productive pace, and he looks forward to resuming his systematic work after each holiday.
In London Chronicle notes a Sir Sidney Waterlow statue in Waterlow Park on Higa gate hill displays sartorial features including a Trilby hat an umbrella and a frock and overcoat. The sculptor's name is not visible and park staff will not reveal it.
Sculptor Herr Niederhauger made a plaster imprint of Lucien’s face after the Empress Elizabeth killer’s death by his own hand. A strand of the murderer’s hair clung to the plaster, and a piece allegedly disappeared into circulation among Geneva’s young women. Swiss belief holds that a murderers hair brings luck. One woman set hers in a gold locket with a jeweller.
Window display forms for women's waists and for men's and women's hosiery are made of glass not wax or solid material. By day they function like ordinary forms and by night electric lights inside them illuminate the goods. The frosted glass diffuses the light to show pattern and color vividly, making displays more striking after dark.
A description of the push man train in Japan, running nineteen miles along the seacoast between Aami and Odawara. Carts are hauled uphill by coolies then coasting downhill by momentum, with riders jumping on behind during inclines, creating a thrilling, switchback like ride past cliffs and sharp curves.
A Cape Colony physician reports experiments with a plant extract called monsonia biffora as typhoid fever treatment. The extract also contains tannic and garlic acids, but no active principle besides entericin, which Dr Maverly names. Early results are inconclusive due to few typhoid cases observed.
Lee Botts son of Dr A T Botta of Glasgow rears five nearly grown quail by a bantam hen. The birds imitate chickens in habits but roost on a pole. The mother tries to teach customs of fowl but fails and stays with the quail in a corner of the new house.
The Porto Bello rain gauge registered 19.86 inches in a single day during the December 28 to 29, 1910 flood on the Panama isthmus. The monthly total reached 64.17 inches, averaging nearly two inches per day amid the great flood.
The Maine Fish and Game Commission reports deer are plentiful in the Dead Silver end Moose River area, bounded by the upper Kennebec River and Moorehead Lake. Moose hold their own there and caribou are reportedly seen in Woolstock region, a rarity after more than eight decades since a Maine caribou kill.
Bishop Abram Herr of New Danville Lancaster county used an automobile to marry five couples from different parts of the county. He began at his home with the 61st pair, then at Salunga, East Lampeter township, and finally Mountville, fitting feasts after each ceremony.
A Wide World Magazine note praises seal mothers for their instinct. They leave their pups at dawn to hunt, return at dusk to the same haulout patch, even if ice drifts fifty to sixty miles and patches span thirty to forty miles.
A woman praises her newly trimmed hat while her husband walks with her for the first time since the hat felt perfect. She repeats the sentiment asking if it is a dream of a hat and he fears waking her, citing her evident enjoyment.
John B. Stump owns a 3 acre walnut orchard two miles west of town. Rabbits have stripped leaves so closely that trees cannot gain headway, prompting farmers to wrap trunks with strong rubber covering to deter jack rabbits.
Patrick Graney a line engineer on Pennsylvania southbound passenger train No. 24 caught a covey of quail as the fast train neared the city. He thrust his hand through the engine cab window and retrieved a bird to prove the tale.
Researchers identify a 1700 year old mosaic in a Byzantine church at Malaba Palestine as the oldest map of a portion of the Holy Land. The piece is described as a functional representation dated to ancient Palestine.
A test for blasting caps is described. Caps are set upright on a lead sheet and ignited with a fuse. The hole size and fragment projection measure the cap strength.
The Japanese have developed into good brewers and an effort is being aale to cultivate a beer thirst among the Chinese in order to create and market.
Viine sent to France. California merchants seek to force their wines into France and Germany despite local protections.
The export value of phonograph records sent abroad in 1910 reached 2,709,955 dollars, more than twice the amount of the previous year.
Washington bulletin explains how a borrower's personal character and business habits influence loan terms for short time farm loans. Honest, capable farmers gain favorable credit while uncertain borrowers face higher rates. bankers use financial statements to assess risk and set terms.
Farmers Bulletin describes a 12 by 6 inch tee tile trap buried with vertical side opening to catch cottontail rabbits. Two 6 inch pipes form an entrance, covered by soil, rocks, or brush. A removable cover and dog supervised outlet allow safe capture for meat or market use.
In a heated exchange Lenais is accused of lying by another man. A mapmaker labeled as liar faces demands for an apology or a fight. The situation ends when the other man apologizes.
Twenty five years ago oil in bags was mocked as a joke yet ships reported calmer seas within an oil ring tows around a sinking Denver. The successful flotilla created a safety zone that enabled crew rescue as waves roared beyond. The piece suggests equipping life-saving rigs with oil dispersers to protect rescued crews.
Testmaster Tom Hance of Niles Michigan owns a $10 690 plug hat made from damaged currency. Damaged and mutilated bills are returned to the United States treasury where they are ground into pulp and the residue molded into souvenir articles by government employees. The postmasters plug hat is made from currency fragments totaling $19 900 in value.
The piece notes the then fastest human speed at 142.85 mph in a mile run by Teddy Tetzlaff on a Salt Lake Desert course near Salduro Utah. It cites electric rail speed 130.5 mph between Berlin and Dresden and adds a zoological observation that birds avoid bright nest colors to avoid detection by enemies.
A Seattle passerby found a gold Elk emblem pin with initials engraved on the back. A young woman aboard the Alaska steamer from Seattle lamented its loss, and the finder returned it to her in his stateroom, restoring happiness to the recipient.
A vintage advertisement claims Rat Snap safely deterred rats during a camping trip. The text urges farmers storekeepers and housewives to use Rat Snap in three sizes priced 25c 50c or $1. It is sold and guaranteed by R P Mullins John Cook & Sons J Sudranski & Co.
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