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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1920
Page
4
The article discusses April Fools Day origins with multiple theories. It notes possible links to medieval miracle plays at Easter, a mockery of biblical trials, and remnants of Celtic festivals. It mentions terms in France England and Scotland for the fooled and the fool as gowk or cuckoo.
A five acre site in Kansas City has been bought for a cooperative family hotel, ten stories tall, shaped as a triangle with all rooms sunlit. Projected cost is 1.5 million dollars, financed by a corporation with 600,000 dollars paid in capital. Stockholders are a group of wealthy Kansas City men agreeing to back the eight room hotel.
Reports from his home in Holland say the former Kaiser Wilhelm has ceased strenuous woodsawing after the Kapp coup failed and has begun walking instead.
Two corn thieves caught stealing grain from a neighbor’s farm were knocked out by Samuel Hunsicker an elder in the Christian Science church from Meduffey Ohio.
British concerns have raised sunken treasure totaling around 100 thousand pounds since the war. Officials report vessels sunk near the British Isles yielded valuables recovered and assessed for recovery.
Paul W. Bartlett sought a calm horse to model Lafayette for a statue to be gifted to Metz France by the Knights of Columbus. After moving a door aside to bring the aristocratic mount into his West Fourth Street studio the animal knocked over plaster casts but, under tranquilizing caramel, stood still chewing as Bartlett shaped the final figure.
Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz estimates a wireless Martian link would cost about a billion dollars, far beyond enthusiasts. The Sperryscope proposes light transmission by 150 to 200 Sperry hid intensity searchlights, each over a billion candlepower, to form a star-like beacon visible from Mars with telescope scrutiny.
The piece portrays Martinique as a French held West Indian island known for Fort-de-France’s picturesque harbor and perpetual summer scenery. It notes a past volcanic disaster eighteen years earlier and warns of the fer de lance, a dangerous venomous snake native to the region, capable of swift, potent poison.
Reports from Pecky Bo hemi describe successful saltpeter production from beet sugar waste liquids. Czech beet factories may yield 6000 to 7000 tons annually for explosives. Prague firm with 10 million crowns capital to build Pardubice plant. offices in Prague.
An old advertisement touts P D P as a liquid bedbug killer, promising it can kill bedbugs and their eggs and protect clothing. It cites a 35c box, a hospital size $2.50 option, and distribution through Mullins Drug Store with Owl Chemical Co. contact in Terre Haute Indiana.
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