Our Farm and Our Home ad in Green Castle shop window
A Piedmont style ad urges improvements at home with new furniture while noting high prices and wage hikes in 1920. It promotes Hurst & Company department store in Greencastle with a large second floor furniture display. The notice blends a home economy message with a furniture sales pitch and ends with a bank notice for the Central Trust Company in Greencastle dated May 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hurst & Company
Greencastle
L. T. Hurst
Ady
S. A. Hays
Krantel
Central Trust Company
Indiana
Elks Dance Planned and Local Human Interest Notes
The Elks will dance in their hall on Wednesday evening with all Elks invited. Local social news covers visits and guests from Columbus Indiana, Mattoon Illinois, Bedford, and Attica Indiana. Community events include church receptions, Mother's Day services, and a boy scout attendance with oath and flag salute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Locust Street
Dorothy Richards
Mother
Carpenter
Classified Ads Dense with Local Offers and Wants
A cluttered classified page lists farm loans 65.3 percent and area ads. Brown and Moffety advertise for sale garden plants. S A Grismer provides address 327 Bloomington street. Jobs include day and night shifts at American Zinc Products Company and roles for architects contractors and landscapers. Wages and travel postings appear with Raymond Thompson in Greencastle Indiana and two youths sought to travel with a manager. Lost gold wristwatch around campus area with a reward. Plant sales Ponda Rosa Tomato Plants listed by Will Welch. Dishwasher needed at Vermillion Cafe. Two neat young men 18 plus wanted to travel with manager for a reputable concern. See Mr Barnhart at the Crawford House in the evening. no phone. Modern furnished room for rent near the center. Contact 565.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Barnhart
Crawford House
Oysters with Mayonnaise and Celery Salad
A chilled oyster and celery salad layered with a butter sugar rich filling and a yolk cream, folded with chopped meats and raisins, then spread between four cake like layers and finished with mayonnaise and olives.
Arab Horses Pedigree Traced Back Two Millennia
A note highlights that the lineage of certain Arab horses can be traced for about 2,000 years. The claim underscores long-standing breeding traditions and the historical significance of Arab horse pedigrees.
Fruit Salad with Grapes and Walnuts for Serving
A recipe combines diced bananas cucumber or celery green grapes halved English walnut meats and mayonnaise. Dress with mayonnaise just before serving and arrange grapes on top for a pretty presentation.
Armenian Refugee Reaches for Leper Work in Java
Miss Helen Chobanian, an Armenian Salvation Army worker, recalls Turkish atrocities in Armenia and her escape to Paris before heading to Java to aid lepers. Born in Dina bekir, she witnessed 1806 massacres, lost her parents, and now joins 65 Salvation Army sites abroad with an indefinte assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armenia
Helen Chobanian
Salvation Army
New York
Java
Miss Chobanian
Dinabekir
Wok Place
Paris
Booth-Hellberg
Evangeline Booth
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
OPERA
A. Cook, Prop
Mgr
Albert E Smith
Anita Stewart
Ralph Ince
Vitagraph
Blue Ribbon
Billy West
H. R. Nicholas
North East Corner
Soph
Mis
Putnam County
Preston
State of
County of
Putnam
I. J. L. Randel
The
Central Trust Co
J. L. Randel
Nellie Browning
Fenton Lawler
Oscar Webster
Ben Davis
C. B. Allison
Mattoon, Ill
George Christie
A. T. Sayers
Attica, Indiana
S. C. Sayers
James P. Hughes
Indianapolis
Northwood Addition
Frank Bittles
James Bittles
Earl Harris
Harry Allan
Kimmel B. Harris
May B. Ringwall
Bedford
Victor Raphael
Presbyterian Church Manse
Wallace Blue
Elmer Blue
H. C. Clippinger
Des Moines
Iowa
Stanley L. Scott
Scott
Clippinger
Esther Brown
Ralph M. Denny
New York City
Mrs
E. M. Denny
East Hanna Street
Brown & Moffety
S. A. Grismer
Bloomington Street
American Zinc Products Company
W. H. Evans
Raymond Thompson
Limestone Bill
Jack
J. F. Gillespie
Rockville Road
Roscoe Hurst
Mt Meridian
Little Theatre
Crawford’s
Chlora Jordan
Ponda Rosa
Will Welch
West Greencastle
Vermillion Cafe
T.A. Sigler
Fred Nelson
Brothers Barn
Phon
Chichester
Rica
Hunt
Bugs
Gent
Kunishines
Uto
Hurst & CO
Via
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company
Ilinois
Ohio
Kentucky
Michigan
Traction Terminal
Ind
A Million Dollar Bank
Central National Bank
Hollybrook
Marshal & O’ Hair
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