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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1919
Page
2
Public notice outlines subscription and copy prices for the Daily Herald with annual and quarterly options for mail and carrier delivery. It also lists charges for Cards of Thanks obituaries and poetical lines, specifying obituary fees and per line poetry charges.
An Indianapolis Star piece describes Copan, Honduras, an ancient Maya city now ruined and unreadable to its descendants. Visitors reach the site via a small Indian village, a train ride, and a long horseback journey to reach the desolate ruins and carved stone figures.
The piece traces ancient legends tying the first finger ring to Prometheus and a later chain-linked token. It notes Jupiter’s punishment and release, the ring’s linked rock fragment, and the belief that the third finger links to the heart guiding betrothal rings. References include Macrobius and an Egyptian priest.
A bank employee receives a package of photographs of his son admired by friends on the first day. The father and wife react as the teller notices the camera trick or error in the package, suggesting a mistaken attribution.
In ancient Byblos the annual aquatic contest selected a girl to be high priestess for a year. The winner, who retrieves an earthen jar bearing a message that the god lives, is placed on an ivory throne and rules with mystic authority, regardless of her social origin.
Advice on persisting with self discipline and patience during tough tests. Encourages steady effort, accepting faults, and giving guidance to someone named Ita while stressing personal growth and honest facing of facts. Emphasizes that patience with others, especially the hardest case, yields progress.
A speculator bought thousands of French rifles, stored them twenty years, and sold them at huge profits to China and South American republics. Some rifles remain in use and bayonets from Sedan era have traveled worldwide.
The piece argues sickness is insurable and poverty preventable through public health and insurance schemes. It notes US prospects for state managed plans are uncertain, yet agitation spurs effort, drawing on historical progress from slavery and smallpox. It cites wealth to fund broad protections and references an essay by W. H. Payne in Saturday Evening Post.
Dr Sirmon Flexner recalled a comic clash over N rays when a midwestern farmer asked for treatment by sending his thorax by parcel post. The exchange shows business limits and the impracticality of remote medical care in the era.
A dialogue retells a haunted house tale about repetition and annoyance as the house repeats a wife’s scolding. A separate note praises wartime ingenuity, detailing California apricot pits as a crop and a chemist’s discovery of substitutes for olive oil and almond flavoring.
Popular Mechanics Magazine hails the American University in France at Beaune as a standout educational project of the American expeditionary force. It seats 18,000 student soldiers with 500 teachers in a repurposed building, featuring an agricultural college on a 600 acre farm.
A social quip from London Tit-Bits notes Ile-Artists claim five feet four is the ideal female height while a rebuttal hints the speaker is five feet nine. The exchange plays on wit and flirtation in a breezy column.
Norman Hapgood discusses a whitewashing case and recalls Pietro Libertini in a tale of Mantua Italy. The narrative blends court humor with Italian cultural references and a vivid late night view of Mantua from taxis to cafes and the 10 o'clock train to Milan.
A aviation lieutenant performs a mid air transfer by jumping from one airplane to another in full flight. He climbs to the under carriage of the first machine and moves to the second, executing aerobatics as it approaches. He lands near the middle of the right wing of the second plane after judging speeds and distance, risking a 5000 foot fall if held unable to secure foothold.
In a Columbus state school, a teacher tests mental arithmetic by asking a boy how many marbles would be divided if 20 were shared between him and Johnny McGregor. The lad replies that it depends on who is present, yielding a clever, ambiguous answer.
A white paper shows a large shift of female labor into industry and commerce. Net female employment outside homes rose by 1,200,000, with April 1918 figures: 701,000 in munitions and 774,000 in other government industrial work. agriculture permanent workers rose from 0 to 118,000 by 1918.
An anxious speaker asks if there is any hope left, while a companion responds with an affectionate, teasing remark about Tam and a crowd of girls in a lively, rural setting.
The old Temple Gate porter recalls Charles Dickens in the sixties as editing All the Year Round. He notes Dickens wore a black velvet coat with smoked pearl buttons, a queer waistcoat, shepherd's plaid trousers, a great deerstalker hat, and wiry hair. He recalls a remark that the writer was a showman, calling him the great Charles Dickens.
Philadelphia physician Dr Gailiied notes a shift in life insurance risk. Underweight applicants are less often tagged as poor risks while overweight men are favored, due to tuberculosis decline and heart disease rising as leading causes of death among the rotund.
In Eggs Ontario a new egg circle aims to remove wholesalers and middlemen, connecting farmers directly to consumers. The plan seeks to bypass storage warehouses that have increasingly separated buyers from eggs, and many hope the circle succeeds.
A National Geographic bulletin quotes Dr. Edwin A. Grosvenor on the Esths, a Finno Ugric people. They faced repeated attacks, later subjugation by German masters, with land mostly held by Germans while Esths remain numerous in Livonia. They favor poetry, Lutheran faith, and seek national recognition though land ownership remains key.
A discussion raises how ground security, aircraft identification, base access rights, nuisance, trespass limits, and overhead property concerns will be resolved as aviation becomes common. The piece notes such legal problems require ingenuity for settlement.
A writer recalls Cologne dating to 87 B C with Roman connections under Agrippitia the wife of Claudius. The city, a major fortress with narrow crooked streets, has a 1005 census population of 428505, 80 percent Catholic, famed for its great Gothic cathedral and a legend about the Church of Ursula holding 17000 virgins bones.
The American consul M. M. Haywood in Calcutta cites a government report showing over 26,000 Indians died last year from snakes and wild animals. Specifically 25,900 deaths were from snake bites and 2,176 from wild animals, up 300 and 100 respectively from the prior year.
In Chicago a 12 year old, Ten Franklin, and his brother John touched a live electric wire. John could not let go. Lawrence, wearing rubber heels, tore loose the wire and saved his brother from the electric shock.
A rambling reminiscence recalls wartime railway travel on a small branch line with a witty station master and a stubborn two car train. The tale captures traveler delays and local color as the South’s genteel cadence and imperfect speech mirror a nation at war.
John Masefield compares California trees to spirits rather than wood. He describes ancient, cathedral like groves as alive columns of majesty and power, age older than seven thousand years, with stars like chaplets encircling their tops.
A reader notes casual remarks on Americans and French accents in Parisian talk. The writer reflects on mispronunciations and the idea that a beard or haircut signals status, contrasting with broad ignorance and humor in social exchanges.
A Yonkers Statesman fragment depicts a morning scene with Rufus the colored chauffeur and a superior, discussing a clock and alarm that Rufus cannot hear due to being asleep. The dialogue highlights miscommunication and racial dynamics in a dated tone.
At Towning Wolf mining camp, monthly assizes filled the courthouse with a noisy throng. The judge finally rose in a moth-eaten white coat declaring order in the one house after four cases, unable to hear any evidence. The scene highlighted tensions in the proceedings.
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