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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
3
A series of trustee and administration notices from various townships including Madison, Mill Creek, Jackson, Monroe, Floyd, Marion, and Putnam counties. Trustees list weekly office hours at homes or offices to transact official business. Also includes a brief health ad for Doan's Kidney Pills and notice of administration appointing James H. Michael and Charles H. Michael as administrators for Reuben Michael’s estate with attorney Jays & Murphy.
Fragmentary OCR note records Mooriou and a surgeon tied to residence and telephones in Bloomington. Mentions office in Evans and block numbers, unclear due to damaged text.
A satirical piece argues about aging eggs and proposes a whimsical invention time stamping eggs as they are laid. It imagines a nesting system that times and stores eggs, calling for laws requiring egg producers to install time stamping devices.
A vintage advertisement touts Speedway as a magic balm that eases tired joints bruises and rheumatic limbs. It claims no skin burning staining or fabric damage and guarantees results or money back from A Cook Drug Store with a large-size bottle emphasized.
Mrs D O of Vernon Burrows Indiana testifies that Chamberlains Cough Remedy relieved coughing spells kept coughs loose and was preferred by the children, stating it is safe and reliable. Sold by all dealers.
Mrs. Dunburgh of Eldridge New York says Chamberlains Liniment is splendid for rheumatism. She has used it for six years with her family and finds it consistently satisfactory. The quick relief from pain is worth the cost and it is sold by all dealers.
Dr O Floverstreet operates a dental practice in Greencastle Indiana. The office is located in the Bence Building on South Vine Street and serves local patients with standard dental care.
Notice names George E. Raines as administrator of Laticia Raines estate in Indiana after a May 19 filing. The record notes the estate is purportedly solvent and the attorney on the case is C Gillen.
Reggie Miller visits Terre Haute cousin Mrs Bert Roberts. Local crowds attend baptizing near Morton. Mrs Ella Thomas and daughters Ona and Gertrude Boswell visit the Carmichals. Joe Staggs family visit Edgar Staggs near Vivalia. Boswell and daughter visit Maude Rice at Fillmore. Thelma Slavens visits May Oliver. Mrs Frost returns home near Success. Herald ads offered at half a cent a word.
A lazy boy nicknamed Jackie is often forgiven for saying I forgot. His father uses moths and moth-eaten clothes as a hard lesson, forcing Jackie to wear ruined garments until spring. The harsh consequence cures his habit of forgetting.
The hot iron turns water into steam on contact. As steam forms and escapes, it collides with unmelted water particles causing rapid air vibrations. Those vibrations create the hissing sound heard when iron is thrust into water.
Professor Atkinson, an electricity expert, states that lightning tears trees not from mechanical force but from the explosive expansion of vaporized tree fluids. The sudden gas generation causes violent expansion, renting the tree into fragments.
A Gothenburg correspondent reports strict rules on wine and spirit sales. Merchants require advance orders for whiskey and even delivery via a third party, with stricter rules appearing after a second visit. The narrator notes a delivery workaround by offering sixpence to a son for home delivery.
Mrs Quilluser and her husband discuss which task to finish first as he writes a Sunday special. Nellie persuades him to favor Willies shoes over Marys mittens, then he abandons An Ode to the Dancing Leaves and turns to a piece on A New Substitute for Coal.
A stranded traveler recounts a chaotic escape on Oversky Limited with a free crew, panic on Saturn, and Radium Works workers amid a hog train wreck. A pal joins a makeshift feast as the crew contends with a hot box and improvised oxygen feeding.
At a meeting of the Amesbury supreme a former inmate read a letter seeking reentry to the workhouse under lenient terms. The writer asked for private meals in bed base allowances, yard and garden access, daily husband visits, exemption from baths, and no work on favorable days. The guardians ruled the workhouse unsuitable for the writer.
A simple double boiler uses two differently sized pails with pebbles in the larger to elevate the smaller. Food sits in the smaller pail above water in the larger. kept water prevents scorching during a fierce fire.
A Cleveland dealer muses on a Paris cat exchange and whimsically offers his cat for a bogua check on a busted bank plus car fare, illustrating a humorous exchange of value in a street anecdote.
A relic believed to be the throne of Queen Hatasu, an ancient Egyptian chair used about 3500 years ago, is reported in the British Museum. The article notes the artifact's age and its preservation.
The largest kite ever made measures fifty by forty feet and weighs over three quarters of a ton including its tall.
The earliest Biblical illustration appears in the symbolic frescoes of the catacombs revealing early Christian artistic expression.
A visitor learns how a simple pencil and tablet system ordered by household item, location, and use can cut search time. Each closet door carries a list of contents, receipts of removal, and menus and recipes in the kitchen, with hall tablets tracking departures. The method eliminates forgetfulness and reduces upstairs shouting.
One pound bacon diced and fried to brown then one pint flour added to bacon grease and browned. Cover with four quarts boiling water then add six potatoes four onions and garlic. Chop vegetables and add one quart tomatoes with cayenne black pepper and salt. Three pounds halibut finely shredded. Cook two hours and add water as needed. Serve twelve with cheese straws made from butter cream cheese and cayenne rolled and baked until light brown.
Buus of Provence presents a savory Lent dish. Fry six rounds of bread in butter, then top with a uniform shaped fried egg. Spoon prepared sauce around the eggs: sauté onion in butter, add pepper tomatoes and bay leaf, simmer, season, finish with Worcestershire sauce.
A method to serve eggs involves a tablespoon of melted butter in a dish coating the surface. Add diners then cover with water and Swiss cheese slices, season with pepper and salt, pour in cream, top with breadcrumbs, and bake until set and cheese melts. American cheese can replace Swiss.
Wash one cup of rice boil and drain chop one cup of nut meat almonds or pecans season two cups of strained tomatoes with salt and pepper layer rice then nuts then rice repeat until dish is full pour tomatoes over bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. Nut and rice savory is described as delicious.
Commissioners of the Putnam Circuit Court announce a public auction of 80 acres in the west half of the northwest quarter of Section 20, Township 13 North, Range 3 West on June 16, 1914 at 10:00 am. Bid terms: one third cash, one third in six months, one third in twelve months at 6 percent interest, with mortgage security. possession on March 1, 1915. MARION O'NEAL, Commissioner. Allee & Allee, Attys. May 31. 22 Posters.
Dr W W Tucker announces medical office on Vine Street between Water and Walnut in Greencastle Indiana for patient appointments and consultations.
Notice to creditors heirs and legatees of Daniel Druitt deceased to appear in Putnam Circuit Court Greencastle Indiana June 15 1914 show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved and heirs to prove heirship and receive distributive shares Witness Clerk Arthur J Hamrick May 18 1914 Putnam Circuit Court St W May 22
Mrs C C Baker of Homer City Pa credits Cham bers tablets with relief from two years of stomach trouble and constipation. She reports improved appetite and sleep after a week of use. Sold by all dealers.
Putnam County Board of Commissioners invites sealed bids for 15610.5 feet of macadam road improvement on James Ingram road in Warren Township Greencastle. Bids due by 2 pm June 1 1914 with bonds equal to double the bid and affidavits of no collusion. Right to reject any or all bids reserved. C L Airhart Auditor. May 7 21 May 22 posters
Notice that the Treasurer of Putnam County Indiana will offer for sale at the Court House Greencastle bonds for the D B Tailor gravel road in Jackson Township. Twenty bonds of 180 dollars each total 3600 dollars dated May 1914 with interest 4 percent payable May 15 1915. Sealed bids due by 12 noon May 30 at the County Treasurer office. H H Runyan Treasurer May 3 1914.
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