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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
2
The Daily Herald lists 1 year 3 dollars in advance, four months one dollar, under four months ten cents weekly by carrier. The Weekly Herald-Democrat charges one year six months three months six and ten cents for single copies. Cards of Thanks and obituaries incur fees, with poetry add-ons.
An article argues a woman’s safest path is private professional work rather than domestic service. It cites mortality rates by occupation: 2.7 per 1000 in higher clerical jobs, 5.6 in offices, 8.1 in mills and factories, and 17.1 in domestic service, comparing them to soldiers and traditional roles.
The government has purchased four portable disinfectors for purifying army uniforms and kits. Each unit includes a five horse power upright boiler and a metal drying rack. Steam sterilizes garments for a set duration before dried by ventilated sterile air.
Secretary Lane of the Interior promotes reindeer meat as a future staple, citing expanding Alaskan herds and better transportation from a new government railroad. He envisions reindeer venison becoming a prominent feature of American meals as demand grows.
Jake Becker a German giant living near Zine Arkansas, stands 6 feet 7 inches and 290 pounds. He farms five acres and raised fifty bushels of corn per acre despite drought, using a self made hand plow. He saved a widow’s sorghum crop and funds his daughter’s education while also working in sawmills. He plans a lasting family patrimony from small farm success.
Steve Saunders risked his life to save Mrs. Lee Bonner and three young women who were stranded on a dangerous mountain ledge near Azuba Cal. He used a rope to descend hand over hand and hauled the party to safety with Henry Williams Coffin aiding. Saunders then faced calls of heroism while returning to town before night.
A French shoemaker has patented a device that makes a plaster cast of a customer's foot and forms a shoe last from it. Authentic records indicate the invention aims to streamline boot and shoe production by creating precisely fitted lasts.
Helena dispatch recounts Col Thomas Cruse born in Ireland who struck the Drum Summon gold mine north of Helena, sold it for 1.5 million and kept a one sixth share, profiting from about 20 million in mine wealth. He died at 79 after a life of mining toil and public philanthropy in Montana.
Wilmington resident Highie Hishte, a Civil War veteran aged about seventy, forgot his name and family after wounds and years of wandering. His son in law Judge Albert C. Marshall of Joliet traced his identity, reuniting him with surviving siblings. Memory slowly returns with new recollections of his wife and life.
In Petersburg Indiana Sheriff Marion Nance freed prisoner Will Coonrod for the night as jail pipes froze and the furnace failed. Coonrod traveled six miles through icy roads to keep his promise and returned the next morning for recommitment.
In Laurel Virginia farm workers digging a grave were startled when earth collapsed and a groundhog emerged, causing panic among the men who feared a buried body. The frightened ghoulish drama ended when the animal was unearthed and fled back to its den.
A Philadelphia man exhibited before the Jefferson Hospital Clinical Society shows a skull thickening of one inch in nine months. Doctors identify the rare osteitis deformans with unknown cause, possibly linked to blood disorders, noting hands and feet are often affected but skull rarely.
In Porterville California an elephant in an alley near a shed attacked boxmaker John Wallace after he offered a sour orange. The elephant snorted, tangled its trunk with Wallace, and hurled him thirty feet into packing cases. He was unconscious and removed from the debris.
D D Mayne of St Anthony Park Minnesota, inventor and former dining hall director, unveils the cafetourner a moving automated cafeteria. Customers insert metal slug money at the door select from sealed food boxes at tables with no waiters, paying only for unused slugs upon exit.
Announcement credits Dr Eilw Taylor of the University of Vermont with an infantile disease spread discovery. Dr S Caverly, president of the Board of Health, notes that nasal and throat pathways allow virus entry while normal throats neutralize it. A simple warm water salt solution to clear these passages is recommended.
Mrs. Mary Earp of Chicago, aged 105, credits a simple diet for her continued health. She says she avoids pie and cake and enjoys a hearty birthday dinner with family, noting regular meals and support from her daughter.
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