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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1922
Page
2
The Herald greencastle notes that cards of thanks are published for a fee of 50 cents each. The notice lists the newspaper’s address at 17 and 198 Jackson Street, Greencastle Indiana, and identifies Charles J. Arnold as proprietor.
The notice states obituaries incur a base charge of 1 per obituary with an additional 0.06 per line for poetry. It outlines billing terms and rates for published obituaries and poetry content.
The Democratic ticket lists candidates for United States Senator Samuel M. Ralston Representative in Congress Charles H. Bidaman State Senator from Montgomery and Putnam Andrew E. Durham State Representative from Putnam and Owen Willis E. Gill Prosecuting Attorney Glenn H. Lyon Clerk Circuit Court Walter S. Campbell County Auditor William D. Lovett County Treasurer Wilbur C. Clodfelter County Recorder Dave Stewart Wricht County Sheriff Elijah S. Wallace County Coroner Jacob E. McCurry County Surveyor William P. Koehler County Assessor Paul F. Priest County Commissioner First William F. Davis County Commissioner Third David J. Skelton Council at Large William S. Burris Ora A. Day James G. Britton.
A Toledo Blade note cites Sir J M Barrie on charm as not mere bloom and says charm is essential if present, while acknowledging men disagree on a precise definition. The piece wryly suggests people might fight over a charm if many define it differently.
Guesses place human vision at forty five miles, but geography shows many times that range from Mount Everest. In reality sight appears limitless extending to the farthest star. The lineage of vision runs into millions of miles at a modest estimate.
The article explains naval timekeeping using bells. Twenty four hours split into six watches of four hours each kept someone awake on deck. Bells mark half hours passed, so seven bells equals seven half hours and could indicate times such as 3 30, 11 30, or 7 30.
On the king’s birthday in 1764 London watchmaker Mr Arnold presented a tiny repeating watch to King George III. The compact piece measured under a silver dime and held 120 parts, weighing five pennyweights seven and three fourths grains.
In English factories vast tusks are sawed for knife handles and other uses. Ivory dust is stored and sold for six pence per pound. When boiled and prepared it makes a fine and pure jelly frequently prescribed for the sick.
Odessa becomes a paradise for bargain hunters with items from Paris and London valued at low prices. Leather valises, Persian rugs, paintings, and silver tableware flood the market as many goods are said to be stolen.
The crown prince of Afghanistan, heir to the throne, studies in Paris at the Lycee Michelet along with other princes and sons of court notables. The accompanying image shows the crown prince.
Bernard Allan of Toma hawk Wisconsin, a member of poultry and calf clubs, earned prize money from calf and chicken exhibits and cockerel sales to buy oats and hay for his purebred Holstein calf last winter and into pasture time. He plans to pay part of his call note and feed by money earned from Barred Rock hens noted for good laying and motherhood.
Mrs. John Miner of Fostoria Ohio laughed at a story for two minutes then felt a sharp pain in her side. A doctor concluded the exertion of laughing caused a rib to break.
A Washington bulletin from the National Geographic Society compares Vladivostok to San Francisco, noting its youth, rapid growth, diverse population, and vivid frontier atmosphere. It traces Vladivostok’s rise as Siberia’s ice free port and terminus of the Trans Siberian railway, then its wartime decline under Bolshevik disruption and the changing economy driven by trade with China and Japan and the presence of diverse peoples from Russians to Chinese and Americans.
Washington reports rapid growth of treasure hunting firms seeking wrecks from the great war. Officials warn of slim odds, noting the Lusitania holds about a million dollars in gold but lies too deep for current divers. Engineers test super diving bells as France and England study records and pursue suction pumps on other wrecks.
Herb Hunter, St Louis Cardinal utility player, returned from Japan where he coached Waseda and Keio baseball teams. He plans to return after the season with an all star squad. In Tokyo he was given a chow dog but paid $1 to keep the prize canine, after offering to cover its value.
Strother Colley, who had escaped Mason county jail months earlier after a four month sentence for sending a threatening letter, returned to the jail to eat. Sheriff John F. Lewis found him at the door and Colley explained he preferred jail meals to roaming states away and lacking employment and food.
In Fresno California Floyd Johnson and Alien Self both sixteen were rescued after clinging to a dog’s tail to find safety thirty miles east in a mountain blizzard. Shortly after a rescue group found two more boys from the same storm exhausted in the snow.
The table lists morning and evening East Bound and West Bound times for the T. H. I. and E. line with A.M. P.M. labels, noting L Limited and H Highlander services, with Greencastle as a stop only. It shows multiple time pairs such as 12:25 12:15 and 5:32H 9:52 for various service types.
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