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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
2
Cards of Thanks are chargeable at a rate of 50c each. This notice appears in the Greencastle Indiana Herald indicating post office second class mail status and the associated fees.
Notice states obituaries are chargeable at 1 dollar per obituary with an additional 5 cent per line for exclamation marked poetry. The policy clarifies billing and formatting requirements for tribute notices.
A long, vivid tale of a habitual liar named Wilmont who works as a bookkeeper then sales clerk. He fabricates adventures to conceal his schemes, lies about being shot, and serendipitously rises to lead the New York office. His boss condemns the deception, yet the sales head keeps him, boosting his career before a large, paradoxical payoff.
A married couple of twenty-five years, Mrs Simmo and Mr Simmo, take a seaside drive that quickly spirals into quarrel and comic misfortune. The car stalls due to no gasoline, forcing them to walk home, during which Mrs Simmo mocks his failings while both end exhausted and sore.
Conrad Timms, penniless and hungry, asks a London restaurant waiter what to order with eleven pence. The waiter replies bluntly that his advice is to find another restaurant.
A West Virginia notice states the partnership between a unnamed man and Mose Skinner is dissolved. Debts owed to the firm are to be settled to the named individuals. The text also notes women have hat buying advantage and describes adjustments for fit.
Silas Troop a Welsh miner marries Betty Lford in a village near a coal pit. After a day’s work and a feared mix up at Bangor he vanishes and is later found alive, preserved in a shaft after a mine explosion. Betty endures a long vigil before reuniting with him in death.
An enraged man confronted a New York broker claiming his wife was nearly run down by the broker’s chauffeur at Broadway and Fifty fourth Street. He exhibited torn fabric and demanded satisfaction, threatening theft of the material rather than a new dress as compensation.
A well known hunter and companion become lost in the forest. As night falls they have no food and no game. The hunter deadpan remarks that with ham they would have ham and eyes and with eggs they could eat.
An old New England resident recalls a town never fully settled before 1790 and depicts slow progress toward modern improvements. He notes plans for a fire company, a water supply, and a concrete sidewalk from the post office to the town hall, but emphasizes it takes time to get things done.
A missionary optimistic about converting tribes jokes about cannibalism and royal dining roles. After greeting the chief he is approached by a native who claims to be the royal cook rather than the king’s valet, prompting the missionary’s amused reaction.
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