Local notes from Greencastle and surrounding towns
A Greencastle news note roundup reports E E Clay of Columbus visiting on business, Miss Martha Ridpath in Greenfield, and James Hamilton's golf cup display. The Greencastle band rehearses at 7 30 pm, with a concert planned for August 8. Other items cover Dr Broadstreet’s recovery in Rochester, Maurice Kendall taking a French teaching post in Delafield, and local sales including the Phi Delta Theta house sale for 4000 dollars.
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Greencastle
Commercial Club
Henry Werneke
James Hamilton
Indianapolis
Maurice H. Kendall
C. E. Kendall
Delafield
Wis
Kendall
Honest boy helps broker miss ball game outing
A conscientious office boy requests time off to see a ball game. The broker praises his honesty and plans to return, sharing a score later. A girl then reveals a tablecloth hidden for a prank and the boy questions why he wasn’t warned.
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George Washington
Willie
Lon
Humorous Quotations and Banter in ailing Style From a Late-19th Column
A collage of quips and exchanges in a periodical page, featuring a lawyer versus judge on accident versus assault, jokes about cooking ignorance, a talking parrot, Shakespeare and Montaigne as humorists, a woman asserting independence, a wooing scene with a bossy offer, and a political gag about a candidate’s growing shortness as he stays in office.
Silly Household Quips and Suffering Stereotypes
Weekend humor column sketches mock domestic debates and suffrage talk as Mrs Griggs and Mrs Wiggins trade quips about changing children and roles. A running joke questions judges and public figures through comic exchanges, ending with playful misnomers and wry lines.
Polio Aid Caile Cooks Questioned At Home
A domestic exchange reveals a joke about a wife who cooks with an odd remark about gravy on a mawhec polio aid caile. Mr Nuwedd describes his wife as strictly up to date in her cooking.
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Mary Foster
William Arnold
Indianapolis
Mr Nuwedd
Dewarra in New Britain Shows Wealth Sign in Shell Crafts
The text explains that dewarr a, a New Britain currency, is made by stringing dog whelk shells on palm leaf ribs. It is sold by the fathom or crafted into adornments for ceremonies. Wealth is displayed by hoarding dewarr a and dividing it among heirs at funeral, mirroring property division elsewhere.
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Wien
New Britain
Work books as passports in Bohemia demand travel permits
The piece describes Bohemia requiring every wage worker to hold a work book detailing personal history and employer endorsements. It must be shown at each relocation and travel must be permissioned by local authorities, with residence certificates filed at new locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bohemia
Philadelphia Ledger
Classified Ads Mix Of Goods Jobs And Real Estate
A Greencastle Indiana classified page lists mill wood, bicycles, a driving horse with harness, an oil stove, Duroc pigs, a five passenger Studebaker auto, kitchen help, printer apprentice, abstract title services, and various work and rental opportunities. Also offers pasture land for cattle, a forty acre farm eight miles south of Greencastle, and delivery and counter man positions.
Position open for reliable man at pumping station
Greencastle Waterworks Co seeks a steady day fireman for pumping station duties. Apply at office or plant. July 28 29 30 31. Also a Whitmer medicine wagon job in Putnam county with no experience needed. For details contact H. C. Whitmer Company Columbus Ind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greencastle Waterworks Co
Whitmer
Putnam County
H. C. Whitmer Company
Columbus
Ind
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eagsman Kodaks Ad Supplies
R. P. Mullins, Druggis
iWest Side Square
Sree Soctestestestes
Fotch
Browning Grocery
Wesc Anth
Putnam Electric Company
East Washington Street
E. E. Clay
Mr. Clay
Columbus Gas Company
Martha Ridpath
Greenfield
Ernest Browning
William Reeves
Attica
Mount Pleasant
Ed, Hamilton
Hamilton
Lesie O'Neal
Mr. Meridian
John Thorpe
Charles Ellis
C. W. Ellis
Don Nichols
Ida Long
Warren Courtney
Mary Manuel
Nora Webb
Bethany Park
Indiana
Epworth League Institute
Anna Edwards
Allen Brothers
Myrtle Fry
Effie Voliva
Colorado Springs
A. W. Broadstreet
Rochester
Minn
Verlin
Broadstreet
A. R. Freeman
Mary Esther
Muncie
Phi Delta Theta
Poplar and
Vine Streets
Central Trust Company
W. L. Miller
A. & C. Stone Company
Carl Hanneman
George
Terre Haute
Dan Pollom
Brazil
Edgar Vancleave
Ted” Miles
Porter
Ewan Barber Shop
BANK
Greencastle, Ind
ATK
Lander
Beryggron
Moderna Firearms
Catatogue
Shakespeare
Montaigne
Lello
Doyle
Madade
Waggs
Mrs. Wiggins
Wiggins
Hali
Detroit News
Clara
Barnaby's Mill
Lady's Bicycle
Haney Wernehe Jewelry Store
Walter Masten
Studebaker
Fay Davison
Apply Herald Office
Herald Office
Vyarm Loans
Nm. B
Vestal
Dobbs & Vestal Real Estate Office
the Herald
Paul Hurst
Monon Restaurant
Vancleave Ment
J. C. Brownell
Cloverdale
Route 1
Fletcher
Castoria
Putnam County Farmers
Cheencastle
Hazelett Grove
Greencastle Commercial Club
Frank Cannon
Spee-Dee
Sherwin-Williams
Marvel JR
Thomas Buggy & HarDwAre CO
South Jackson St
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