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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
2
The Greencastle Herald lists pricing for notices with obituaries charged at 1 per notice and 5 cents per line for poetry. Displayed rates apply to all afternoon editions and Sunday face, with 50 cent per word for a card of thanks.
Classified items list farm loan opportunities from Krown and Moffett Greencastie Indiana and rental requests for a house near Greenastie. A South Bend reader seeks a permanent tenant for a near Greenastie home and a good six room house for sale or rent on South Locust Street with Theo Crawley contact. Also mentions a second hand buggy and a store rent reduction.
Notice requests all persons holding milk bottles and cans belonging to the Mill Market to return them. Delivery and contact details indicate a store sale promotion and local grocery reference.
Mrs Tepper of Plainfield New Jersey says rats in her cellar were so bad the servant girl refused to go in. She used RAT SNAP to clean out the rats and mice. The remedy comes in cake form and is sold locally by John Cook and Sons Sudranski and Co and R P Mullins with prices 25 50 and 1.00 and a guaranteed claim of odor control.
HM M Butler endorses RAT SNAP for hospital rats and says it works every time. Farmers advised to treat early and regularly. Sold by John Cook & Sons J Sudwanski Co R P Mullins with a guaranteed result.
The ad claims a seaside home opened in May was overrun by rats. Rat Snap in cake form was used to clear them in a week, avoiding messy handling. Available in three sizes for 25¢ 500 1.00, sold by John Cook & J Sudranski Co and R. P. Mulatety.
Turkish multimillionaire Gen Ahmed Djemal Pasha, former minister under the Young Turk regime and ex-commander in Syria, lives in a Lausanne hotel while a Turkish death sentence awaits him. Swiss officials have been urged to expel him. his wealth allegedly funded by Turkish gold and linked to mass killings.
Kansas City serves as a hub for seasonal farm labor traveling from across the Midwest to harvest winter wheat in Kansas and neighboring states. Estimates peg 30 000 to 50 000 outside workers needed in Kansas with wages of 70 cents an hour plus board in the west two thirds and about 5 dollars a day with room and board in eastern Kansas.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology adopts a five dollar fine for each scholastic deficiency. The plan faces student protests with support from some faculty members. Professor Leonard M. Passano argues joint responsibility and suggests fines apply to instructors as well if the rule stands.
Van Zandt details a unique model project where tiny base ment window gratings required over a day per piece. He used specially prepared glue to delay setting and finished each of the four gratings with only a penknife and sandpaper.
Public notice from Putnam County Indiana informs Franklin Jefferson township voters of the Board of Commissioners plan to issue a new estimate for highway construction at 38 468 10 and later 33 434 30 with twenty day remonstrance window from June 15 1920. It directs voters to file written remonstrances with the county auditor if dissatisfied.
Legal voters of Cloverdale Township Putnam County Indiana are notified that at the May Term 1920 of the Board of Commissioners the board appointed Forrest Hurst and J W McCammack viewers and William P Koehler engineer for the contraction and improvement project in Cloverdale Township Putnam County Indiana.
Mrs. Jos H Woodall of 109 College Ave Greencastle testifies Doan's Kidney Pills relieved her back pain and kidney trouble after one box and later reaffirms the benefit. The ad notes 60 cents at dealers and lists Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as makers. It also advertises nursery stock sales by Hawks Nursery Co and a help wanted notice for a middle aged or elderly lady at 303 South Jackson Street.
The Georgetown livery horse Old Aunty, once the town's last working livery horse, has been sold to the Boneyard in Maysville Kentucky for a new use as a car securing exhibit. The town once boasted half a dozen livery stables before newer vehicles ended the trade.
Dr Joseph Clare, after six years in Petrograd during the upheaval, speaks on Russia's Red Riddle. He details encounters with Lenin Bolshevik prisons and Cosacks and offers insights into the revolution for community audiences on day four of the chautauqua.
In Danville Kentucky Fred Bodner of White Oak rode a black horse by wagon to Manning livery. After calling for it he found the horse attached to his buggy was not his. He went back to the stable and learned the second black horse had also vanished with no trace of who took it.
Mrs Hannan says she found her hen killed in the morning and bought Rat Snap from John Cook & Sons. Within a week six rats were dead, sold with a guarantee at 25 50 and 25 cents sizes, Mullins listed.
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