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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1920
Page
2
Notices list obituary charges at Greencastle Indiana post office address 17 and 19 S Jackson Street by Anaries J Arno proprietor The paper publishes every afternoon except Sunday with additional poetry fee and obituary gate charge of one dollar per notice plus five cents per poetry item
The article recounts Ninger passing and being arrested for a greenback bill he had printed himself, with Washington agents tracing the notes as Jim the Penman. It also notes Indiana preacher William K Wade who counterfeited 25 cent pieces, lacking a factory yet convicted and imprisoned.
A humorous essay contrasts the Buffalo with the Yak and Kak, reflecting on decline and myth. The piece notes the Buffalo’s former vast presence on the plains, its flawed nature, and the irony of courage celebrated in life yet rewarded by plaques and coins after death.
Henry Seidel Canby argues in Karper's Magazine that American culture persecutes intellectuals labeled as high brow. He cites public fear of exception and mediocrity worship, noting doctors distrust theorists, politicians distrust dramatists, and writers fear elite ideas. The piece condemns the bias against knowledge as impractical and dangerous.
A collage of aphorisms and humorous maxims. Topics range from wisdom and folly to ambition, optimism, and human nature, with light social commentary. Notable lines touch on fools, enthusiasm, lawyers, politics, lettered words, and the contrast between desires and reality.
A National Museum exhibit in Washington presents a detailed Solvay process model showing salt wells 1200 feet deep near Solvay NY and a 21 mile brine pipeline from Onondaga Lake to a soda plant. It explains how brine becomes baking soda and other soda products with ammonia and lime.
Cy Garris of Branchville New Jersey, a nine year old, works as the village’s youngest blacksmith under a chestnut tree. He forges horseshoes and whiffletree rings, learning from his father Lester Garris while planning to finish school before full-time smithing.
Louis Repetti, 60, a wealthy Arkansas commission man, alleges he paid $1,070 for 12 potatoes after confusing boxes. He says a con man named Ricci used similar boxes to deposit securities and vanished with the money. Police are investigating the irregular exchange.
Montclair New York Health Commissioner James McDonough proposed tongue fenders for salted peanut vending machines after a boy stuck his tongue into a cup to lick crumbs. The town has already curbed barking dogs and crowing roosters with a legal muffler.
Supreme Court Justice Prady in Bronx County refused to approve the Daffydill club organizers for incorporation. He mocked slang and suggested the group lacks proper membership characteristics or the approval of the State Lunacy Commission. The piece ends with a cryptic line about a woodpecker with a three-baroed tongue.
The article advises twelve to twenty five hens for a family, estimates twenty five square feet per bird, and explains space, care, housing costs, fencing, and the cycles of renewing the flock. It covers range plans, green crops, insect feed, and using cockerels as meat.
Beetles cause hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual damage to seasoned wood used in homes farms and warehouses. Larvae of Lyctus beetles bore through wood, mainly sapwood of hardwoods like hickory ash and oak, and are deterred by kerosene boiled linseed oil paraffin or varnish treatments. Prevention includes inspection classification burning of infested material and securing heartwood stock and careful storage.
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