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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1914
Page
2
The Farmers and Merchants Bank and the Ladoga State Bank in Ladoga will liquidate voluntarily to consolidate as Citizens State Bank. The first step is publishing a three week notice as required by law.
DePauw players Bridges in singles and Gregg with Clymer in doubles are eliminated. Rose Poly defeats Gregg and Clymer 6-2 6-3, Bridges beats Han 8-6 6-2 then loses to Wabash 6-3 6-5. Wabash and Rose Poly reach finals. Eaglesfield of Wabash hopes for Rose Poly title.
Al Scheer of Laporte Indiana, now with the Indianapolis Federal League club, excels at right garden for Whoa Bill Phillips. He attracted home fans with sensational running catches and strong batting. Formerly with the Boston Red Bar, Scheer married about two months ago and his wife is a devoted supporter at games.
The official count shows Carl Smith winning the presidency with 826 votes while LeRoy McLeod trails at 257. Mona Summers leads for vice president with 308 votes, Stanley Barnet 274. Frances Miller tops for secretary with 269, Frazeur 314. James House wins treasurer with 207, Wilbur Stonex 276.
A collection of short maxims and remarks includes cautions on burial plots, credit, enmity, and truthfulness. It notes thieves at Beeleyspo and a Maine barber claim, with several quips about honesty, responsibility, and speech. The tone resembles a mid Victorian or early 20th century miscellany column.
In a tale of love and wealth, Crabtree courts Luella Soozlum against her father Old Goozlum who swears a night in the haunted Dingwiffle Gables is required. Crabtree bravely faces the legend despite prior victims waking dead the next day as the ghost taunts him with a hollow laugh.
Household hints advise dusting and rubbing lacquered beds with a flannel cloth then applying melted paraffin and polishing with champly akin. A tip for towels suggests sewing a buttonhole in the corner for kitchen or hanging use to avoid a hanger falling off.
Slice four quarts of cucumbers and twelve onions, salt and rest three hours, then drain. Pack into pint jars with white mustard seed sugar celery seeds and olive oil, add cold vinegar to fill. Include strips of green peppers and remove green from cucumbers to avoid bitterness.
A brisk fiction piece features a sleuth who bites a pie, breaks a tooth, and calms a frightened visitor. She fears ghosts due to rumored murders in the house and recounts three afternoons of tremors. The detective asks about the husband and coal orders, seeking a rational explanation.
A struggling reporter pursues novelist Woodrow Wardham who vanished from town. He tracks clues from Carmel studios to hotels and beaches, eventually spotting Wardham with his painter brother-in-law and evading a rival interviewer trailing Wardham’s every move.
The passage traces early money in Mexico from cacao bean barter to Castilian silver pieces in 1635, the emergence of weight based peso coins, and the royal decree creating three mints. It notes later adoption of gold and copper, fraud concerns, and mint relocations under Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to royal buildings, then the palace.
Frederic C Howe proposes new small denomination coins including half cent two and a half cent and twelve and a half cent by modifying existing coins. He also urges reissuing abandoned shin plasters in 26 and 5 cent values to reduce prices and enable cheaper pricing at retail.
James King of the People's Railway Company found and returned a wallet containing $700 to its owner. He received a 25 cent reward as a reminder that honesty pays. He located the wallet on the car floor near two men, asked if anyone had lost anything, and was thanked by the owner when the money was retrieved.
English lightweight O Neill fails to land a strong victory against Fred Halsband in New York. A knockdown blow is noted but the bout ends disputed as risky punches are warned against.
A local advertisement touts Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy for stomach liver and bowel ailments. It quotes Walter Spray of 1011 South Seeosus Street, Frankfort Indiana, praising quick relief and claims many testimonials and free literature from Geo. H. Mayr in Chicago.
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