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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1921
Page
2
A Wonderful Cave Near Engiboul Reveals Hidden Cavern
Quarrymen near Engiboul Belgium opened a passage to a great unknown cavern suspected by local mineralogist E Doudou after streams disappeared. The cave features vast chambers crystalline floors a light mineral snow that swirls with a breath and basins of water forming a glassy film. Crystalline stalactites emit musical tones at the slightest touch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Engiboul
Belgium
E. Doudou
Doudou
Minister buys lookalike horse at fair
A country minister sells his aging Dobbin at a fair and buys a new horse he believes resembles the old one. The replacement proves unfamiliar, while Dobbin quietly returns to his own stable, revealing the mistaken likeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dobbin
Hallucinations From Starvation Study on Miners Buried Alive
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports French physiologist Lassiguardie's finding that fasting boosts imagination but causes irritability memory loss and mind disturbances. He studied courrières miners buried twenty five days noting home fantasies food cravings imagined lights and frequent quarrels though most kept reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lassiguardie
Courriers
Sicily's Chestnut Tree of a Hundred Horses
Sicily boasts the world's largest tree at Mount Anna's foot. The Chestnut Tree of a Hundred Horses has a trunk 212 feet in circumference with five massive branches and a hollow big enough for a flock of sheep. Its name recalls Queen Joan of Aragon sheltering there with her retinue during a storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sicily
Mount Anna
Joan of Aragon
Summer care of ice chest for efficient cooling
Guidance from the United States Department of Agriculture on selecting and maintaining an ice chest. Advice includes keeping the ice compartment filled, cleaning with hot water and washing soda, flushing the drain, and avoiding covered ice with blankets. Also recommends thin dishes, enameled ware, and cooling foods by holding them in the chest rather than using chipped ice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Grape Juice Desserts From The USDA
The article notes grape juice as a refreshing drink and base for desserts. Suggested treats include Grape Sherbet Grape Ice Cream Syllabub Bohemian Cream using grape juice, cream, eggs, sugar, lemon and fruit garnishes with chilling and freezing steps.
Porch Box to Shield Milk
If the day’s milk is delivered early and sits on the porch for hours a porch box should be provided. A covered two galvanized iron case box with insulation protects milk from sun flies ants and street dust.
Food tips from a vintage pantry guide
A quirky collection of kitchen tricks from a bygone era covers adding sunflower seeds to a mousetrap recipe, caramel filling without sugar, cheese into apple pie crust, and an omelet for six to eight. It also suggests barley with sugar and cream, dates with almond fudge, rubbing scorched spots with sand, and tomatoes baked with pork sausage.
Hardships Aboard Japanese Torpedo Boats In War
A Japanese officer aboard a torpedo boat recalls bitter cold in a tiny craft with no heating. Comforts like heat and sake are scarce, sleep is rare, and officers endure high speed, darkness, and constant alertness. Provisions suffer in rough seas with misoshiru casks often lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tey
Bol
How the Constitution Escaped Heroic Naval Chase
The July 18 to 20 pursuit of the Guerriere tested the Constitution as waves and calm forced towing and anchor drags. Hull reports choosing Boston for safety as British ships loomed near New York, noting the early war strain on the American fleet and the frigate's escape before a port could be fortified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Navy
Great Britain
Sharks Return to Baltic Waters After Long Absence
Reports from fishermen describe sharks reappearing in the Baltic and Cattegat belts after about 150 years absent from northern seas. While still present in the Mediterranean, sharks swarm the North Sea coasts of Germany and Norway with nets attacked during hauling and several narrow escapes noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltic Sea
Mediterranean
Cattegat
North Sea
Germany
Norway
Island ruled entirely by women in Gulf of California
Tiburon Island, in the Gulf of California, is described as governed entirely by women. The remnant Levis tribe, once about 6,000 strong, now numbers only a few hundred and rejects marriage to other Indians. Women lead households while a council of matrons handles public matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiburon
Gulf of California
A Great Australian Charity Faces Extinction
The Melbourne based charity known as the 8 o clock rush risks ending as the philanthropic restaurant proprietor retires after fifty years. He offered a free meal each evening to those down on their luck, avoiding professional loafers and chronically unemployed. About a hundred attended nightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Australia
Boston Transcript
The Gardening Girl and the Fence Hanger
A gardening girl chats with a neighbor who hangs over her fence offering to dig. He boasts of worm fishing methods and promises to weed a bean row in an hour while she writes a note, then returns to inspect his work. The playful exchange ends with him choosing to watch instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob
The Movie Comedian Owlishly Twists Through a Slapstick Morning
A film comedian's chaotic morning unfolds with alarms and accidents. He shaves with a Charlotte russe, fights his family in a spree of slipping and falling, and drags a piano through the house before a breakfast mishap ends with a trip to Swatograph Studios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dumbwalter
Swatograph Studios
Civil War Footgear Found In River Dredge
A dredge bucket near Sunken Island recovered a shoe with a wooden sole and leather upper like Civil War Confederate troops wore. Col. C. P. Burgwyn of the Imperial Hotel displays the artifact in his cigar showcase in Petersburg Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunken Island
Col. C. P. BE. Burgwyn
Imperial Hotel
Petersburg
Seaweed Tests Filter Water in Philadelphia Project
Seaweed may be planted in the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania as an experimental filter for drinking water used by Philadelphia. The plan explores natural filtration to improve water quality through aquatic vegetation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schuylkill River
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Mars Fellowship Granted to University of Washington
Dr. Percival Lowell funds a Mars fellowship at the University of Washington for one year with a $600 stipend. The holder, chosen by Prof. Samuel Louthroyd, must be a UW student or graduate specializing in astronomy and conduct original research at the Lowell Observatory near Flagstaff Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percival Lowell
University of Washington
Lowell
Seattle
Washington
Samuel L. Southroyd
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff
Ariz
Louthroyd
Boothroyd
Mars
Prof
William Herschel
Uranus
United States
Life's Calendar as a Portrait of Life Stages
ANational Magazine excerpt likens life to a yearly calendar. January hints winter and infancy, February awakening childhood, March youth’s sapling, April sorrow, May love and violets, June marriage and home, July harvest tone, August retirement playtime, September fruitful life, October harvest and calm, November approaching frost and gratitude, December final days and loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Valentine
Little Sister
National
Cowboy Hats Come From Crete Says Excavations
Excavations in Crete reveal that the Chinese style of hats worn by Cretan women about two millennia ago influenced headwear thought to be American. The peculiar claim links the American cowboy hat to ancient Crete’s fashion traces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crete
Plant Superstitions and Folklore About Houseplants
Folklore links plant behavior to luck and fate. Water droplets on leaves predict bloom. a plant withering in a room signals a death. gifting plants forecasts friendship or enmity based on growth. breaking off slips harms plants. odd blossoms mean no enemies, even mean one or more. never burn pruned plant debris.
Global notes on cities and daily life
London employs motorcycle policewomen. Holyoke silk ranks among the purest. Springfield church hosted nine weddings in one day. Paris tailors publish dog clothing designs. Vienna's Ringstrasse is famed as a handsome street. Paris restaurant doors pay tips totaling fifty dollars daily. Greater London spans 119 square miles with over 41 000 people per square mile, far above Greater New York’s density of 19 000 per square mile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater London
New York
Weights and Measures: Old Unit Conversions
A compact list of traditional length and distance units with approximate modern equivalents. Includes fathom six feet cubit eighteen inches span nine inches palm three inches rod five and a half yards league three miles meter thirty nine point eight seven inches cable length one hundred twenty eight fathoms furlong forty rods or six hundred sixty feet degree sixty geographical miles barley-corn one third inch kilometer three thousand two hundred eighty feet statute mile five thousand two hundred eighty feet nautical mile six thousand eighty feet.
Words From The Wise Lessons On Patience And Strength
A collection of maxims on obstinacy endurance and virtue. Quotes discuss the value of patience, strength of the weak, and testing friendship through adversity, attributing ideas to Lavater Napoleon Ruskin Metastasia and others. The piece uses aphorisms to reflect on moral wisdom.
Dramatic Plant Raid and Queen Elizabeth Ailments
More than 2 000 000 barberry bushes were dug up in America last year in the fight against black stem wheat rust. A historian says Queen Elizabeth suffered from various ailments including swooning gastritis and bronchitis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Elizabeth
Notice of Sale of Township School Property in Marion Township
Marion Township school trustee Willis D Wright of Putnam County Indiana will auction the township owned parcel with building on August 16 1921 at 10 am at the school house. The property covers part of the west half of the southeast quarter section 2 township 14 north range 3 west about one third of an acre. Cash in hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mar_ion Township
Putnam County
Indiana
Township Fourteen
Willis D. Wright
Marion School Township
Novel curved glass window debuts in Chicago shop
A Chicago store installs a show window without glass reflections improving visibility of contents. The inward curved window rises eight feet with a shadow box bottom extending three feet. The curved glass, though costlier, is said to enhance displays of women's garments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Daily Schedule Fragments From West Boung
The text lists times 3:35 a m 9:19 a m and 1:39 p m with note Daily except Sunday and location West Boung.
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