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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1920
Page
4
In a Turkic debate during the Crimean War a telegraph is praised and cursed as a magical evil. The old mullah resolves the quarrel by noting the devil himself will be busy shuttling messages, thus the invention benefits humanity by occupying evil forces.
Constable Sam Stockputter questions the driver after a collision with an innocent bystander. The motorist protests that the car was new and unknown to him, while Stockputter presses for details of the accident. Kansas City Star reports the scene with local color and tension.
In Duluth Minnesota the Webster school hosted a month long kitchen and sewing program for Finnish immigrant women. Demonstrations increased attendance and fostered English learning and better relations with Americans. A notable session featured Finnish dishes and coffee bread with social hours improving mutual understanding despite language gaps.
A Birmingham Ave Herald snippet quotes the outlaw nicknamed Rattlesnake Bill rail against cinema. He reflects that if he had known what lay ahead he would have stuck to train robbing to keep his self-respect, noting how the director speaks to him. The piece frames his prestige as fading in film era.
The tale recounts Brun Roselli's Century article on Towntown Arkansas born from an Italian ecolonization plan by New York financier Austin Corbin. Italian settlers faced malaria and poverty, walked from malarial regions, aided by priest Pagher Jandini, and founded Towntown at the Arkansas Oklahoma Texas border area, naming it after explorer Tonti.
A major new industry to turn dogfish skins into leather is planned at East Boothbay Maine. The plant will sit on the west shore of the Damariscotta River one mile from East Boothbay village. Equipment has been bought and the plant is to be ready by June with skins taken from the largest fish and partially finished hides stored for winter handling, creating near year round operations.
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