Bargain Shoes and Grocery Order Drive Sponsored Sale
Fragmentary ad notes a sale offering Diamond Brand shoes at low prices and urges early phone orders to aid delivery. The readable text links a discount promotion with grocery order efficiency.
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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
4
Fragmentary ad notes a sale offering Diamond Brand shoes at low prices and urges early phone orders to aid delivery. The readable text links a discount promotion with grocery order efficiency.
An intensive two year investigation funded by olive growers and canners will study botulism in California. Researchers will operate in Stanford Medical School and the George William Hooper Foundation with cooperation from the U S health service and California state board of health to map botulinus distribution in nature, infection routes in food, and destruction methods for contaminated materials.
A Richmond Times-Dispatch quote shows a boss instructing a new employee to avoid watching clocks at work. He stresses constant dedication, noting only morning alarm checks and early arrivals foster independence, then sends the boy to fetch the duster.
An unnamed scientist states ongoing efforts to determine why Egypt’s pyramids were constructed. Senator Sorgium, absent, notes that some investigations take a long time.
The year Gook credits 35,005 trot records with 2:30 or better times and 20,070 pacers under 2:27.
Dr Halford Ross home office factory inspector in London explains yawning signals fatigue and non contagious nature of yawning. He notes children in London schools rarely yawn together in morning but do so later as fatigue grows. In Calcutta he observed a statue yawning figure and nightly crowds yawning from fatigue after a ball.
Two southern Indiana girls visiting Ravenswood admire the row of odd little cottages by White River. They discuss wanting to live there but note such a place would be more exclusive and would require cottages where others are not.
The mended collar of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, worn at Lutzen in 1632, is presented to the Scandinavian government by Austria in recognition of aid to Austria. Soldiers of the Anatolian guard removed the insignia, and it has rested in a military museum since.
Corporal WLC Erwin of Tamurham North Carolina becomes the first graduate of the Marine Corps Institute at Quantico. A veteran of the Fifth Marines and the Second Division he earned a livestock course diploma with a high average and received an autographed letter from Secretary Daniels.
Cincinnati and University of Cincinnati coeds share their ideas on the ideal husband. They describe traits such as tall, athletic, broad shouldered, whiskerless, and good looking with preferences for singing, dancing, piano, and a fondness for purple and pumpkin pie.
In Athens Ohio a curious scene unfolded as two robins vied for nesting space. A lone female robin aroused Mrs. Robin No 1 who created a commotion and forced the interloper away, marking a far from ordinary week in bird life.
A Baltimore Sun snippet depicts two Black soldiers in a quarrel during a quiet night. One warns that if they do not depart a Black person will be subject to a roll call, and the other retorts with harsh racial language amid tension. The exchange hints at disciplinary threats and racial tension within a military context.
Scattered notes mix a late classified item for cabbage plants at 25 cents per hundred with a chaotic arrest report. The fragment mentions a sheriff, a hotel scene at 2 p m, a bullet striking a man’s forehead but causing no penetration, and an unclear escape sequence involving a person named Luey.
The R. E. Knoll Company seeks additional vehicles for washing duties. Allocations and shifts posted, with employment details and contact information for applicants.
A tender obituary fragment recalls Lester Cunningham who died in 1917 with a note that his memory remains. A later line urges readers to identify a found money at Ow! Drug Store and claim by paying for advertisement.
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