Cards of Thanks and obituary charges listed
The Greencastle Ind post office notes that cards of thanks cost 50 cents each and obituaries 1 dollar per item. An additional 5 cent fee is charged per line for poetry.
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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1920
Page
2
Rat Snap Kills Rats and Mice Says Trial Proves It
Advertisement for RAT SNAP cakes that kill rats and mice with no mixing. Sizes listed: 1 cake for pan or kitchen, 2 cakes for chicken houses, 5 cakes for large farms or buildings. Sold and guaranteed by John Cook & Sons and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cook & Sons
J. Sudranski & Co
R. P. Mullins
Save State From Dancers in Maryland Delegates Debate
Annapolis reports Delegate Wellbrenner of Baltimore County introduces a bill to outlaw various dances across eastern shore counties. Gambrill seeks to invoke emergency measures for health and safety, prompting mixed reactions among eastern shore delegates amid a rainy day in Annapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
John A. Wellbreamer
Baltimore County
House of Delegates
Delerate Gambrill
Maryland
Annopolis
RAT-SNAP Rodent Destroyer Sold In Cakes
Old roducent control product RAT-SNAP offered in cake form for set baits. Includes money back guarantee if it fails to work. Each 2? cake sized for pan use.
Funny Badges in Gibson Hotel Prompted Dental Confusion
In a wartime era lounge a dozen sports writers recall pranks while hotel staff wear badges. A dining room guest asks about badge wearers. A waiter checks a bulletin board and misreads it as the National Association of Gynecologists Obstetricians and Anesthetists, then identifies them as dentists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Row
Cincinnati
Chicago
Type
Hawks
Gibson House
Gibson
Cincinnati Times- Star
Diversity Among Students Drawings Split by Trait
A Glasgow University study led by T L MacDonald tested six students with Mars, a moon photo and other images. Each student focused on a distinct feature canals lakes or shading, with the most canal oriented artist using the fewest shadings. Researchers propose three planetary types canal spot or shade sensitive and call for tailored corrections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. L. MacDonald
University of Glasgow
Mars
Artonladl
Heads of Church of England and Primates
The article explains the hierarchy of the Church of England with the Archbishop of Canterbury as primate of all England and the Archbishop of York as primate of England. It outlines York’s jurisdiction over ten dioceses from Humber to Dee and Isle of Man, while Canterbury governs the rest. Canterbury’s primacy gives him precedence at public events and authority over the church nationwide, including crowning the king.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
Canterbury
All England
York
England
Two Freak Checker Boards From History
A story cites two extraordinary chess boards. One built in 1890s at St Leonards Sussex used solid three foot thick concrete with a 25 foot square surface and hooked iron rods for play. The other presented to Bismarck featured gold and silver squares on ebony, 24 men with rubies and diamonds, valued around 150000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Leonards
Sussex
England
Columbus (O.) Dispatch
Bismarck
Change in Rural Life and Outdoor Living Over Twenty Years
A reflection on shifts in New York rural life from closed windows and outdoor mistrust to open air living, outdoor eating, and porch lounging. It notes the spread of airier habits through newspapers, magazines, and mass entertainment, including movies and phonographs, transforming social life and youth culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State
New York Evening Sun
Grandpap
Booth Tarkington
Mary Pickford
Light balsa wood strong as half spruce in tests
Massachusetts Institute of Technology tests show balsa wood with strength about half that of spruce yet weighing only 7.3 pounds per cubic foot. The Ecuadorian wood is nearly pure cellulose, its strength arising from a barrel shaped cell structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Royal Crocodile Guarded Treasury Of Annam
A French observer reports Annam’s treasury guarded by crocodiles housed in a palace tank. Gold and silver sit in bored teak logs, protected by fierce croc guards and silent human guards, making robbery nearly impossible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annam
Nature
Woman Challenges Enver Pasha Over Turmoil Echoing Dardanelles
A Turkish woman rebukes Enver Pasha as protests grow over casualties in the Dardanelles and Baghdad campaigns. The elder mother retorts that she hopes the marshal’s own mother shares the same pride in brave patriots, reflecting deep wartime grief and defiance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enver Pasha
Committee of Union and Progress
Dardanelles
Bagdad
Empire
Marshallah
Effendi
God
Barnett Miller
Asia
The Modern Washlady and the New Car Twist
A Columbus family faces a delayed wash as the local washwoman explains the delay by taking daily motor trips in a newly owned car. The piece notes concern about summer effects on laundry service and the broader washwoman problem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Columbus Dispatch
Electric ground thawing device used in Alaska railway work
A hollow steel pile acts as an electric ground thawing tool for Alaskan railroad construction. A sharpened point drives into frozen soil, a resistance coil is enclosed, and a portable transformer provides low voltage high current to heat and thaw the ground. This allows efficient driving of wooden piles.
Wood Waste Use Shown To Cut Living Costs
New York College of Forestry exhibits articles made from sawdust and shingle waste to demonstrate how sawmill waste can reduce living costs. Items include silk substitute textiles sausage casings phonograph records and tanbark shingles produced from treated wood waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York College of Forestry
Notable Exchange Over Speed Between Two Residents
In a boarding house Lerret questions Jackson's pace while Yadillah insists he is extremely slow, comparing him to an elephant taking a sponge bath and a body massage as Jack washes his face in a judge's remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Lerret
Yadillah
Jack
Fraud double mirrors Perkins in England, torments victim
A foreign correspondent reports a clever impersonator in England who copies Herbert Leslie Perkins of Wolverhampton to commit frauds. Perkins, an impoverished herb seller, has faced multiple arrests and aided by witnesses, while the counterfeit continues to operate, draining Perkins’s savings and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Herbert Leslie Perkins
Wolverhampton
Kansas City Star
Perkins
Gloucester
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
Hull
Burton-on-Trent
Peterborough
Bristol
Leicester
Future Rapid Travel to Calcutta by Rail
Mr Lindsay Bashford in the Edinburgh Review foresees a Lemion to Calcutta rail journey in a fortnight. He outlines the Baghdad railway linking Konia Constantinople Aleppo Jerablus Nisibin Mosul Baghdad Basra and envisions possible extension to Tehran Quetta and India enabling London to Calcutta travel in under two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsay Bashford
Edinburgh Review
Calcutta
Bagdad
Konia
Asia Minor
Constantinople
Aleppo
Jerablus
Euphrates
Nisibin
Revenge Time At The Village Fair
A small brother plots revenge on a visitor with candy sticks as the village belle Gwendoline endures punishment. The boy hints at hair covering ears as a sign of mischief and seethes with secret knowledge about Gwendoline’s attire. The young man awaits the tell, but the boy refuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwendoline
Ene
Houston Post
Airplane Eyeing New Use For Eclipse Observation
Paul W Merrill suggests observing eclipses from aircraft. A modern plane can rise above fog and cumulus to give a clear sky except for cirrus. Photo observation is feasible with a Dellaviland plane and Liberty engine at 10 000 feet, possibly aided by a gyroscopic stabilizer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul W. Merrill
Spiders Knit Surveying Threads in Hoboken Factory
In Hoboken New Jersey a 200 spider colony in a surveying instrument factory spins cross hair thread. The spiders work August and September, under coaxing by four girls who irritate and guide them to produce thousands of yards of thread daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoboken
N. J
Digger Welcome for Birdwood Stirs Australian Soldiers
General Birdwood holds a unique place in Australian memory from Gallipoli and France. Diggers in Melbourne welcomed him in a slouch hat amid rain as he toured, while in Western Australia a cartoon greeted his arrival with a “big digger” band. A rain soaked digger in Melbourne quipped that the other hand is here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Birdwood
Gallipeli
France
Astralian
Melbourne
Birdwood
Victoria
Western Australia
Swanging Monument Discovered North of Conon City
A massive granite monolith over 100 feet tall has been found north of Conon City Cole. The column is free from surrounding earth at the base, with a 12 foot foot, and a center thickness of about 50 feet tapering to the summit. The shaft reportedly moves two to three feet with wind, remaining suspended in a hollow three feet deep where the base is detached from the surrounding rock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gree
High Altitude Winds and Supercharger Promise
Army aviators report a strong west wind at altitudes above 25040 feet with speeds near 175 mph. They found no steady temperature drop with height and tested a supercharger. Military use could greatly increase speed at high altitudes while commercial use may let heavy airplanes climb mountains with lower powered engines.
Surprised a Stranger Moments on a Train
A reader recalls a comic embarrassment on a night train. While visiting the cars the narrator found a man alone and presented flowers to him, accusing him of riding solo. The moment became awkward when the startled recipient turned out to be a stranger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chum
Student argues six hours work sufficient for any man
The economics student says he has been awake since 6 in the morning and working until midnight on speeches to prove that six hours of work a day is enough for any man. He concedes being overtaxed while pursuing this claim.
High ranking power in Soviet Russia linked to Chinese figure
Berlin reports Ipak Yen a former barber’s assistant now powerful in Moscow. He supposedly controls vast funds and parades with four wives. Lenin calls him “My Celestial” and consults him on major moves while Communists criticize his influence and alleged wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ricksha
Kremlin
Moscow
Ipak
Fiji Labor Dynamics Reflect Slow Pace and Indian Labor Surge
In Fiji, physical activity mirrors restraint and a culture of waiting. Islanders defer urgency while Indian workers, small yet driven, dominate labor roles, from plantations to factories, and progressively acquire land as white management overlooks tasks and wealth shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiji Islands
Lebor
Sidney Greenbie
Harper's Magazine
The Colonel's Lady's Maid In London Answers
A young flying officer meets a fashionable girl at Coney Island and exchanges New York addresses. He dines at the Ritz, then attends a theater with her. A brother officer in a box winks, and a puzzled Topper reveals a domestic misread about his wife’s maid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coney Island
New York
Ritz
Topper
London
Prisoners in Famous Tower Cause Sights and Alarm
Tourists visiting the White Tower armor and vaults were surprised as alarms rang and doors were barred. Guards secured all exits amid a relayed warning, likely triggered by a workman accidentally faulting a signaling wire during a rejacke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Tower
Pup Who Never Had the Flu Makes Johnny Smile
Johnny notes a corner pup between errands and jokes that the lively dog never had influenza. His aunt, slowed by illness, explains her lack of pep, while the scene shows a contrast between the pup’s energy and her fatigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Belleau Wood Relief Map By Marines
A large 22 foot square relief map of Belleau Wood is being prepared by Marine Corps topographical experts. The map covers a 16 mile square area and shows terrain characteristics. Marines who fought there collected data after returning from France for the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleau Wood
United States
Marine Corps
France
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