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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1920
Page
2
Herald notice describes pricing for cards of thanks and obituaries with charges set at 50 cents per card and 1 dollar per obituary, plus an additional five cents per line for poetry. The policy outlines payable rates and line-item charges for poetry content.
A 1920 Putnam county political notice lists multiple Democrat candidates for sheriff and one for representative. Candidates include W E Gill of Cloverdale for representative and several contenders for sheriff such as Allen Eggers Fred Lancaster Edward Eitle Jorge Vermandes C Hurst Will Glidewell Jess M Hamrick E S Lige Wallace Harkins L Jackson with primary date May 4 1920 and voting guidance.
Reese R. Buis of Marion Township announces his candidacy for county commissioner of the Second district subject to the Democratic primary on May 4 1920. David J. Skelton of Washington Township announces his candidacy for the Third district with the Democratic primary on May 4 1920.
Two nominations surface in Putnam County for state district posts. J J Hendrix of Washington town seeks the Third District seat, pending Democratic primary results. O A Day of Marion township announces his bid for the Second District, contingent on the primary outcome dated May 4 1920.
A town distant from Bath tried a tramp for vagrancy and riding cars. He claimed a wife and ill children in Bangor, then admitted no wife when the judge showed a letter saying otherwise. The judge ordered him out, laughing as he left the court.
A Scotsman and an Englishman debate strokes after a holed out first green with playful cross border jest about who asks first on the next hole. The Scot calmly signals it is now his turn to ask, ending the exchange with a wink.
Uncle Jim Sugarfoot killed a rabbit for Parson Heavegrace to eat during a dinner. The parson, warned of season laws, jokes he would prefer the gosard or the bird when offered a second helping, revealing a humorous misunderstanding about the meat.
Emily Brentford endures loss and loneliness after a child dies and a river tragedy. Six months later a neighbor’s baby arrives, offering hope as Jim, weary from the mill and drink, finds renewed love. They decide to keep the baby, finding solace and a sense of family in the small home.
Private Jozeph F. Amen, a Chateau-Thierry veteran of the Fifth Division, was joyfully reunited with his mother Mrs. Francis Amoroso in Reading after twenty years. The Red Cross facilitated the contact while Amen served in Germany with the army of occupation. He had been taken by his father as a child, grew up among strangers, and only learned of his mother’s survival via a letter from the Red Cross.
British army chaplain led a Mass in Cologne Cathedral at the relics of the Magi skulls. American officers and Coblenz troops were allowed to view the bones. The relics were moved through history from Helena to Constantinople to Milan and finally Cologne, kept in a Romanesque golden reliquary.
A Western vocational office helps a disabled worker transform from seeking an easy chair to a skilled oxyacetylene welder. After five weeks in an intensive course, he is placed in railway shops as a skilled workman.
In East Whately Massachusetts the whole town armed with pitchforks pokers and forks trapped a burglar wielding a hammer inside a store. A melee ensued with injuries to several, but the bandit finally surrendered his hammer in a dramatic arrest as townsfolk escorted him to ensure his horse and carriage in the woods would not go hungry.
Dr Burkhart offers a 0 day treatment for liver kidney stomach trouble constipation catarrh rheumatism pay when cured grand remedy and preventative for grip flu address 621 Main street Cati O for sale at all drug stores 25 cents
A mixed reflection on wisdom and ignorance noting that capable advisers may lack practical earning, wealth can burden, fame requires discipline, truth tellers exist, trouble arises from small tasks, silence as a substitute for wisdom, and even the illiterate can teach.
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