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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
4
The article urges farm based turkey production citing ample range and natural forage. It covers breeding selection for vigor size and color, flock management with pure bred stock, mating ratios and confinement tips. It details nesting and incubation practices using hens and incubators and notes feeding schedules, shelter needs, and moveable coops for poults to ensure healthy growth.
Engineers from the Office of Public Roads outline key rock qualities for water bound macadam: hardness to resist abrasion, toughness to withstand impact, and binding power to cement fragments via water. They describe laboratory tests including abrasion, Nordness, and binding briquette methods, noting variability across rock types.
A Los Angeles Times report describes Tristan da Cunha as a tiny South Atlantic community of 77 whites with no money in circulation no jails schools laws or government and no crime or taxation residents live in honesty and harmony maintaining absolute independence and moral self sufficiency despite isolation.
A quip from the Atchison Globe argues for corporal discipline of royal youths and even American citizens to curb folly and improper behavior. The piece cites Highland soldiers and spats as attire history to illustrate evolving social norms.
The text notes coffee’s beverage use in the fifteenth century and two rare preparations from gahoua seeds. It also reports Louis Mollenen, the Quincy Hill Giant, a 19 year old 7'8" 300 lb worker in Calumet Michigan, wearing 16.25 inch long shoes weighing five pounds each.
Sir Henry Howarth, famed archaeologist, sits beside a young lady who asks about her dog. She claims he wrote a book on Mongrels, but he corrects her noting his work concerns Mongols not mongrels.
Anthony Suda of St Louis lives in a house rented for one cent a month by his employers who hire him as factory watchman. The unusual rent allows 30 days notice before eviction if the property changes hands.
In a southern Wisconsin circuit court a famed Badger lawyer faced a sharp rebuke by a witness who claimed he was only a butcher by trade. The judge-like moment turned on a quip about being greener than he appeared.
A Russian conscript near Moscow feigned deafness to avoid questions, then fled as the surgeon declared a response. In another case Terenkea claimed fused fingers. an examiner asked how they were before the accident, and the man demonstrated by parting them, shocking onlookers.
Lieut. Hussey recalls approaching Adis Ababa with the American commission to Abyssinia. About 3 090 Abyssinians formed six irregular lines marching with diverse dress and regalia. Chiefs rode in fine gear while infantry and rearguard moved with varied arms and colorful banners in a striking procession.
Baron Rothschild hosts a dinner where a boastful guest promotes his malachite cuff buttons. The young man parades his claim of genuine malachite, prompting light scorn from the host who notes his mantelpiece of the stone in the adjoining room.
Late Field Marshal Waldersee proposed to Princess Noer after a playful street exchange over a parcel. He cited a strict military ban on carrying parcels in public, she dismissed it as absurd, they bantered, and the visit ended with an engagement.
A Russian traveller reports in Manchuria that Chinese businesses operate on a cooperative model with no proprietors or employees. All workers are partners, receiving small living allowances, while year end profits are evenly shared. He notes remarkable honesty among Chinese merchants, citing no protested notes across ten Russo Chinese Bank branches in China since the bank’s founding.
The piece argues rubber is not a simple tree product but from many species, with 1,000 containing rubber though only 40 to 50 yield commercially. It notes Sir Thomas Lipton holds an Italian knighthood and English baronetcy. It adds Canada needs 257000 square miles to match Europe in size and is about thirty times larger than Great Britain and Ireland.
James Mason, 47, has lived in total seclusion for thirteen years at Great Canfield Essex. Neighbors say a vow after a jilting drove him to avoid woman and then man. A reporter glimpsed only after facing a heavy hedge ditch and barbed-wire barrier built by Mason twelve years ago in one night.
Henry Villard recalls Horace Greeley’s Colorado trip. An express stage encountered a herd of buffaloes, trampling the coach and injuring Greeley, who spent weeks in recovery. While recovering in a hotel, he delivered a stirring plea for sobriety, ending the nightly gambling and closing the bar at 11 as long as he stayed.
In Mostar and Sarajevo, travelers note a vivid variety of dress. Mohammedan women with henna nails, men in red fezes and blue zouave trousers, girls in sheer robes reveal voluminous trousers and deer hide shoes. Some women wear headgear resembling a coal scuttle bonnet, creating a look likened to suffocation. Austria rules these lands, yet culture remains distinctly oriental.
Description of Dyak courtship in Borneo where a man aids a woman during her toil, awaits night, and upon approval by the parents steals to her house to wake her. If she accepts, she rises, takes gifts, and betrothal is sealed without words.
A male lion starved for about six weeks after its mate was removed and died at the zoological headquarters in St. Louis. A live sheep placed in the cage later terrified the animal, but the lion merely paced and did not harm the sheep. The animal was valued at $3,000.
A vivid description states that each Korean village houses one listener and cities host several, called messen gers on the dark path, who report all events to the king. No word escapes the king’s knowledge through these informants.
A fragmentary reflection on time eroding life’s pages and exposing how few leaves remain, as Longfellow’s line laments human passion burning away precious moments. The passage meditates on mortality and the fleeting nature of existence.
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