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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1919
Page
4
Multiple small ads include WANTED printers trade training, part time work in Putnam county, counter man and cook at Monon restaurant, delivery boy at Vancleave market, help to rent a house near square, found automobile crank and hats with owner to claim, and real estate office listings by Vestal in Greencastle Indiana.
A health advice item urges readers that loss of appetite is usually not serious and gives guidance on meal spacing and exercise. It notes constipation as a common cause and recommends Chamberlains Tablets to correct it, concluding with an advertisement tag.
There is not anything like so many deaths from this disease now as before Chamberlain's Coca and Diarrhoea Remedy came into such general use. When this remedy is given with castor oil as directed and proper care is taken as to diet, it is safe to say that fully ninety nine out of every hundred cases recover. Mr. W G Campbell of Butler Tennessee says, I have used Chamberlain's Coca and Diarrhoea Remedy for summer complaint in children. It is far ahead of anything I have ever used for this purpose.
Industrial chemistry is described as a form of magic with nitric acid produced from air and synthetic dyes. An industrial chemist creates a new material from carbide and formaldehyde with heat, forming a solid unlike any natural compound. The piece notes potential substitutes for rubber and cellulose, noting cost and fire resistance.
A Colorado cave man uses a natural vapor cave at Glenwood Springs for therapeutic sweat baths once used by tribes and medicine men. The caves spill sulfurous vapors from mineral walls. wooden floors and benches were added and visitors endure intense heat for short sessions.
George Kotrba once a bell boy at Chicago's Auditorium hotel perfected an automatic self adjusting wrench and won a $1,500 bid for the patent. He plans further inventions including an automobile stabilizer. Indian government experts weigh submarine boats for pearl oyster divers.
Fossil remains in a New York museum suggest a Carcharodon species once inhabited the South Carolina coast. Teeth indicate a living length near 80 feet, far exceeding modern sharks, with the largest tooth about six inches.
The Lane family reduces weekly laundry by requiring each spill to be covered with a coin of equal size. Ten year old Fred deposits quarters from his newspaper money and later brings home a bag of pennies, yet the family continues meal preparation with grudging humor. Separately the Nebraska and Indiana papers note dairy science advances, including high pressure pasteurization claims that enzymes survive and milk flavor remains unchanged, citing American Chemical Society statements.
The article describes Japan's manufacture of undergarments from finely crisped paper. After pattern cutting and sewing, strong yet flexible paper garments are reinforced at buttonhole points with enlico or linen. They resist perspiration similarly to cotton fabrics and remain tear resistant when wet.
A New York man posing as a coal wagon driver obtained immediate cash by delivering a load to his own cellar. He kept the money, then quit, citing the work as too hard, according to a local representative reporting the incident.
A physician treats a suburban boy with tonsillitis and a neighbor recalls folk medicine. The elderly observer notes that salt pork and pepper used to soothe sore throats, but with salt pork prices high she jokes that a doctor may be cheaper now.
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