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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1915
Page
2
Misdemeanants formerly confined in jails are given outdoor work at a penal farm near Putnamville. The program provides limestone for fertilizer materials for road making and clay for bricks, offering constructive labor instead of idle ness.
Indiana leads in reforming incarceration by opening a prison farm at Putnamville to employ inmates in outdoor work. The program, rooted in the indeterminate sentence and parole system, aims to reduce jail populations, lower county costs, and demonstrate self sustaining operation similar to Swiss models. The farm’s first six weeks saw prisoners from 42 countries and counties like Marion and Vigo start building, with ongoing developments and state support totaling substantial funding.
A speaker traces his Revolutionary and Civil War lineage, from Christian Hootman captured at Trenton to the Union soldiers who funded freedom. He links unity to national strength, recalls Lincoln’s times, and argues for enduring foundations amidst slavery’s conflict and the Republic’s ideals.
A historical advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy for bilious attacks. It claims the product tones the liver, cleans the stomach, relieves constipation, nausea, vomiting, and severe headaches. The ad notes the tablets cost a quarter and are obtainable everywhere.
A Herald want ad prompts rapid responses from local readers seeking services and sales leads. The concise notice emphasizes immediacy and practical options for buyers and sellers in the community.
A Greencastle farmer, Geo W Wood, cites relief from disordered kidneys after using Doan's Kidney Pills from Jones Stevens Co. Three years later he again confirms the prior endorsement, adding that the medicine remains effective. Price 50c at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
The excerpt recalls President Lincoln halting a soldier’s execution and guiding the nation from war toward healing. It frames Lincoln as a compassionate healer who faced slavery and urged unity among Americans to uplift humanity and cast out ignorance and hate.
We express heartfelt gratitude to friends and neighbors for sympathy and kindness during the brief illness and death of our beloved husband and father Luke Enos Townsend and for the beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. Josephine A. Townsend and Family.
A Zanesville Ohio woman recounts four years of stomach trouble and extreme weakness. After using two bottles of Chamberlain's Tablets she reports a complete recovery and renewed health. Obtainable everywhere.
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