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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1922
Page
2
Classified notice states Cards of Thanks cost 50 cents each and obituaries cost $1 each with an additional five cent per line for poetry. Publication details list Charles J. Arnold proprietor and address in Greencastle Indiana with contact line.
The ticket lists candidates for federal and state posts including U S Senator Samuel M Ralston and Representative Charles H Bidaman. State positions cover joint and county roles with Andrew E Durham Willis E Gill Glenn H Lyon Walter S Campbell William D Lovett Wilbur C Clodfelter Dave Stewart Wright Elijah S Wallace Jacob E McCurry William P Koehler Paul F Priest William F Davis David J Skelton and council members William S Burris Ora A Day James G Britton.
The piece argues that small items like chickens eggs butter fruit honey and similar products have helped farmers prosper and avoid debt. It emphasizes that nothing is small when it enables people to live well and prosper.
In Parliament the time limits for speeches are sometimes ignored and a time clock is proposed to display exactly how long a member has spoken. It resets to zero at the start of each remark.
A 1735 record notes Mor decai Lincoln paid for shoes for his slave. This suggests Abraham Lincoln’s great great grandfather possibly owned a Negro slave in Pennsylvania before emancipation.
The Run of Babies reports four newborn girls in the hospital that day. A boy hoped for a brother but learned all infants were girls. The next day he asks the nurse how they are running today.
A reflective line emphasizes finding beauty in all things daily, noting that even a fallen feather reveals filaments of beauty and suggesting a universal appreciation of the world. This excerpt centers on perception and wonder rather than a narrative event.
The article estimates that fully harnessed Niagara Falls could generate about 7 million horsepower while the upper Mississippi could provide about 2 million horsepower, indicating vast energy resources if developed.
An old Louisville Courier Journal quote collection notes a man who never chats weather and an exceptional man who lacks a bad cold. It also mocks those who push the so called best cold cure.
In parts of Russia the mail is carried by buffaloes chosen for their flat feet which keep them from sinking in soft ground, enabling travels where horses would struggle.
In New York a U S public health service study tests carbon dioxide and oxygen with an inhalator to treat gas poisoning. Prof Yandell Henderson leads the work at Yale while blood samples track carbon monoxide removal for early rescue in mines and grain elevators.
A Dillingsville farm owned by Joseph Gardner produced the world's largest egg. A sixteen year old high school senior and New York poultry authorities verified the egg's measurements at 6% by 2% inches and a weight of six ounces. The Rhode Island Red pullet laid the record egg, with a seed eye of similar size laid by the Stine hen.
Maj. W. T. Blake notes 1922 as a pivotal year for civil aviation with London Manchester and London Ireland routes, plus new continental services by Daimler Hire London Paris and Aerial Routes London Brussels. France expands Prague to Constantinople and Bordeaux Toulouse to Marseille Genoa, Denmark investigates large passenger aircraft, Portugal opens Lisbon Paris, linking London to Lisbon.
Nearly 1,000,000 public school children in New York had their eyes tested in one day on a health day. The Eyesight Conservation Council of America partnered with schools, distributing 50,000 eye care pamphlets as teachers assist in vision screenings and related health checks.
Brooklyn chemist Thomas W Weggielus, 23, sought material for a book titled The Hereafter. He swallowed what he believed was a fatal dose of anaesthetic but misjudged it and died, ending efforts to finish the work.
Cedar Falls Washington residents report the entire mountain town shifted eleven feet toward Cedar Lake. The clay foundation lies on smooth rock strata and frost or a quake may have caused the slide. If continued, all property could be lost and the town abandoned. Only a few windows were broken.
Merritt W. Ireland, U S army surgeon general, told the eighteenth annual congress on medical education that defeating pneumonia and other respiratory diseases could halve wartime mortality. He cited 45,000 pneumonia deaths versus 37,000 battlefield deaths, and said a vaccine or preventive could shift future outcomes, though months of work remain. He noted current efforts in army trials and emphasized control of typhoid and malaria, but warned large costs for respiratory defense.
Mrs. Lutu Daniel, oldest inmate of the Arkansas Confederate home near Little Rock, is 103 years old. She makes her own clothes with Irish crochet collars, enjoys excellent health, and has remarkable agility for her age, earning praise as far from a has been.
John L. Hayward of West Bridgewater Massachusetts was smoking at his barn when a passing car threw a snowball striking his pipe. As he pursued the boy, embers ignited hay in the mow. The barn and dairy burned, with a loss of 2200 dollars.
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