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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
2
The Greencastle Herald lists rates for obituaries at 1 per notice and poetry at 5 cents per line. Cards of thanks are charged at 50 cents each, with publication daily except Sunday at 17 and 19 South Jackson Street.
Classified listing from Indiana includes W. WM. Evans of Licencastle offering architectural and contractor services and land taupe gardening. A separate notice from brown and Moffett promotes cash loans with the phrase Plenty of money.
For sale at Christies on Spring Ave. Coal range dining set includes table and chairs. Also advertised are low shoes in stock at significant reductions. Phone 666 for details.
Rats and mice eat RAT S NAP and leave no odor. Cats and dogs avoid it. Three sizes offered by John Cook & Sons and J Sudranskie Co with prices 25c 50c and $1.00. Sold with guarantee by local retailers R. P.
Tepper of Plainfield New Jersey says rats were so bad in the cellar the servant girl refused to go in. He bought RAT SNAP which cleaned out the rats. The ad notes RAT SNAP destroys rats and mice, prevents odors, comes as a cake, and is sold by John Cook & Sons J. Sudranski & Co. and R. P. Mullins in three sizes.
An advertisement for RAT SNAP claims it kills rats and mice without odor. The trial shows effectiveness with no mixing, offering 1 cake for small areas and 2 cakes for larger spaces like chicken coops, farm buildings, and factories. Sold by J Sudrarski & Co.
The Los Angeles Express reports the Antelope valley board of supervisors erased Little Rock and Tierra Bonita from records sealing their end as towns. The sites are now agricultural land awaiting pear orchards as remnants of a Yucca pulp boom fade.
An expert argues that if people ate whole wheat bread and avoided white bread the nation’s tooth decay would not occur. Whole grain flour has higher protein and lower water. white bread is about 40 percent water. The fat is around 1 percent. rest includes protein, starch, sugar, dextrin, cellulose, and minerals. New bread digests slowly, while day old bread digests in two and a half hours. Frumenty is described as soaked wheat boiled in milk with sugar. Real brown bread uses stone ground flour from the whole grain.
Passenger notes describe the Ventura voyage from Sydney to Honolulu with many young bobbed hair girls, likening the ship to a female crew from a death battalion. Most were real girls without suffrage ties, admired for varied hairstyles from Dutch cuts to shingled crowns, yet retaining ringlets to attract men.
The passage recounts how Constantinople faced repeated sieges from Persians Avars Russians Latins and Turks. It notes eight conquests with fire and pillage and final Turkish control in 1453 after fierce resistance by Mohammed II, marking the city as Europe s plague spot through history.
Gypsy caravans drawn by horses once marked their picturesque encampments but have largely disappeared as automobiles replace the mobile tents. Travelers now ride in high powered cars that echo the old caravan in features and style.
The Boston Evening Transcript notes that while Jerusalem is multilingual with twenty three languages, New York street cars surpass this with a far greater array of foreign tongues heard by riders daily.
The writer recalls a forty year past visit with Mark Twain and his wife in Hartford. Twain entertained with a flowing monologue while smoking churchwardens and burning pipes, and guests laughed at his most successful jokes as Mrs. Clemens smiled. Barnum notes her timing in laughter.
An ad styled tale describes rat infestation in a seaside home and praises RAT SNAP cake form for killing rats. It cites user experiences and notes purchase availability through John Cook & Sons, J Sudranski & Co, and R Mullins with prices of 25c 50c and 1.00.
A vast new Berlin auditorium shocks with a dreary exterior and surprising interior. Carved mahogany columns support a domed roof while disks atop the columns glow orange and blue from concealed bulbs. The Greek open air style seats 3,000 in a horseshoe around an arena.
Capablanca has an unparalleled track in chess exhibitions in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1,352 games he scored 1,253 wins 71 draws and 28 losses against top English players. He often plays over thirty opponents at once averaging nine seconds per move while opponents use six minutes.
Dr. Wiliam Goodwin, superintendent of the general hospital at Statensland, spent a month camping with Frank Taylor in Harwinton Conn. He worked eight hours daily and produced seventy six gallons of maple sirup combining business with pleasure.
A fragmented dialogue fragment features Prneurich claiming humility about birth privilege, followed by Wig weig mocking with a remark about eating with one night. The text presents nonsensical wordplay and unclear attribution with no clear event or context.
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