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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1919
Page
4
An ex peditionary force is praised for good behavior yet faces issues with drunkenness abroad. The piece notes Americans in a nonprohibition country overindulging, causing disruptions and drawing French resentment despite military oversight. It contrasts cheerful French tolerance with American excess during Paris leave.
Former President Taft recalls two returning soldiers who learned new skills and approaches in France. A hotel clerk becomes head chambermaid after managers value overseas experience, while another veteran asks a partner to continue a tedious courtship, noting how different life abroad has changed him.
Dr Anna Howard Shaw jokes about aging and politics in Indianapolis remarks. She says once women win suffrage and the League of Nations forms, she will be a gay young girl and scarcely look seventy, recounting a California trip tale to friends and reporters.
The Agricultural Department enforces quarantine No 37 prohibiting import of plows without a permit. No garden insects or plant diseases can enter the country without federal horticultural board approval. Insecticides remain useful to combat old and new plant troubles.
An airshow in England featuring a captain delivering aerobatics ends with a hard ground touch and a bumpy landing that prompts laughter. A stout guest praises the moment, calling the landing a “beautiful thing to see” and comparing it to a bird-hop.
The piece extols the intense love for children in Serbia, arguing the child is the state’s property and the monarch of the home. It highlights the mother as guiding figure and asserts Serbia’s Spartan creed valuing child life and education above all.
Demas Coe a Richmond businessman and former Wayne county auditor recounts a Chicago barber joke about an Indiana haircut. He preferred Indiana styling after the trip and shared the tale with his Richmond barber, who grew indignant at the remark.
A columnist argues traditions keep pumpkin pie to fall and winter but modern canned pumpkin and abundant eggs allow pie and custards year round. The piece urges adapting culinary customs to current supplies and times with a playful reference to Ike Oliver Twist.
Lowell argues translations broaden cultural awareness and refine taste though no translation fully captures a work. He favors having both translations and originals to encourage language study and sharpen linguistic precision in thought and writing.
Lettuce is cultivated on 80 to 40 acre fields in the Imperial and Salt River valleys. At peak season in January and February shipments reach 26 carloads daily to the midwest and east. Irrigation grown and band labor produced, lettuce is of extra fine quality. The industry began commercially about three years ago and has become a leading agricultural occupation, with carrots peas cauliflower and beans also produced on a smaller scale.
Major C. G. Hopkins of the Illinois agricultural department and Lieut. G. J. Bonyoucos in charge of an American Red Cross agricultural survey of Greece and Crete. They plan to educate Greek and Cretan farmers and introduce up to date machinery and methods to raise crop yields.
Anne recalls a stranger at intermission who clutched her during dancing, claiming the man was trying to sell her life insurance while sparking suspicion about his intentions. Bob notes the stranger’s charm and nervous demeanor as the scene unfolds.
The Duluth Herald imagines a Victorian gentleman waking to a world transformed by World War I. He would find Britain’s flyers praised alongside American feats, Russia in ruin, Germany humbled, and the United States dominant in diplomacy and weapons like poison gas and submarines.
A seventy three year old woman proudly proclaims she is not childish and stays busy by knitting for soldiers and embroidering for a nursemaid’s baby. She notes happiness comes from thinking of others and avoiding self pity, contrasting with a younger neighbor seen as childish.
Sunday morning the congregation filled the village church pews in quiet reverence. The pastor led prayer while a government inspector in the last pew grabbed his notebook and quipped about establishing secret communication with the Almighty without a permit. Burleson will hear of this.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer Austen Chamberlain presented a budget to Parliament with figures that puzzled a top accountant. He cited a significant sinking fund and noted grave attention to a garden fund influence amid the contentious financial plan.
Two suffragists discuss marriage age with a witty exchange. The younger argues it is impossible to marry after thirty five, while the older insists thirty five is too soon to marry. Their banter highlights contrasting views on women's independence and marriage timing.
A preliminary report issued by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, states that street and interurban railways in the United States carried over 11 billion fare-paying passengers in 1917. This figure implies more than 100 trips on average for every man, woman, and child in the country.
Robert Henri mocks pretentious buyers who flaunt old master prices. He compares their art knowledge to a Chicago sausage maker asking Whistler his rate to “do me inony.” Whistler name is invoked with a brisk reply about ten thousand dollars, noting the buyers’ wealth.
A Terre Haute physician told a friend on Main Street he was busy but had time for a ball game. He boasted he made $25 from one of the players after the game, claiming the win was worth the trip and effort.
A historical view argues that American rivers and waterways lag behind European rail and canal systems. It notes a massive shift since 1914 with Congress approving 17 billion, citing urgent need for unified inland navigation and massive federal spending to enable heavy freight movement.
A Western Union telegraph chart records all land wires, totaling about 1 000 000 miles and spanning 70 sheets. The map shows wire material, gauge, routes for operation and testing, cross connections, and office assignments, mounted in a booklike steel frame.
A Greenwich Village tea room scene has a parlor Bolshevik denouncing the Spartacists as tyrannical. Novelist Theodore Dreiser agrees, noting the Spartacists cause strife by pushing their program during reconstruction.
Edward A. Foley of San Francisco has been named the first agricultural trade commissioner for the U S Department of Agriculture. He will work in the United Kingdom for the bureau of markets to study conditions and distribution of farm products and promote foreign trade in American agricultural goods.
Popular Mechanics shows a method where gauze mops in a great army hospital ward are treated in a cooling apparatus to recover tone and reuse. Alcohol evaporates, condenses, and returns to the mop pads, aiding sterilization after washing.
The first pen making machine, invented by Samuel Slocum, transformed steel pen production from handcraft to mass manufacture and cut wholesale prices from about $3 per dozen to 18 cents by 1830. Earlier writing tools included papyrus reed brushes in Egypt, pointed reeds in Greece and Rome, wax-coated wood with metal stylus in the middle ages, and quills gaining popularity in the fifth or sixth century.
The passage argues that capital is not only money but also brain brawn and integrity. It highlights that money funds ventures while talent and effort sustain them. Success comes from the combination of financial resources and personal industry, with character enabling bills to be paid and livelihoods to be provided.
An American intelligence officer questions a German prisoner who speaks English with a London accent. The man recalls three comrades Caspar Max and himself raising their hands as a soldier bayoneted them and muttered a curt insult. The officer notes the Yank’s remark was simply that he was in a great hurry.
The history of literature shows many writers who practiced or worked in the legal field. Names include Lewis Theobald, Sir John Hawkins, James Smith, Barry Cornwall, Shirley Brooks, and Sir Theodore Martin, with others such as Warburton, Chatterton, Cowper, Borrow, Disraeli, Dickens, and Meredith noted as having worked in solicitors offices or connected with law.
The speaker argues patriotism is not born of birthplace but joins virtue with law. Citizens honor the nation by obedience, seeing in authority the venerable image of the country’s honor. Every good citizen makes that honor their own and guards it as sacred.
The article contrasts dressmaking with home making noting many women have fine clothes yet untidy homes. It argues dressing others is a lesser art than shaping a welcoming atmosphere that reflects social consciousness and harmony with the Spirit.
Seventh graders studied Paul Wayne's The River and compared its course with life. The teacher asked questions about age and growth, noting the line about the laboring streamlet rushing and roaring. She likened youth to the period from eighteen to thirty with troubles, marriage, and children.
A historical note on glass razor manufacture describes a cylindrical volcanic glass core from which thin flakes were chipped to form two beveled sharp blades. The blades stayed sharp longer and could be refreshed by removing a new flake, similar in use to modern replaceable blade systems.
The Bank of New York, organized 135 years ago, emerged from merchants meeting at the Merchants coffee house. Alexander Hamilton aided its founding. General Alexander McDougall was its first president and Hamilton helped draft its constitution. It shared early supremacy with Philadelphia and Boston banks and has occupied its Wall Street site since 1798.
A hungry newsboy, given a half-dollar by diners, buys only beans again. He had eaten beans at four prior visits that day and returns with multiple bean dishes, illustrating simple hunger and desire for a meal.
The text argues character is the key asset enabling credit and capital to drive circulation, create jobs, and generate income. It contrasts character and money, claiming trusted men using capital wisely foster peace and progress while misuse causes strife. It frames character as the ultimate form of credit and capital.
W. A. Sinclair compares a painter to a generous North American feast giver who gathers wealth to host a grand feast for friends strangers and tribesmen. The painter seeks sympathy and appreciation while maintaining aloof hospitality inviting all to share in his art and joy.
The piece contrasts New York City water supply history with ancient Rome. It notes Rome’s engineering feats transporting water via aqueducts from distant sources and delivering it through lead pipes into stone tanks, highlighting ancient systems as marvels compared with early American methods.
A junior writer laments dictation interruptions as mistakes derail progress. The senior partner notes wasted time while the dictation continues. The junior explains discipline suffers when the phrase I don t know becomes common.
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