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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1919
Page
4
In a postlife setting two strangers die the same day and hour in a city orchard of Spirit land. They meet and escape grim earthly unions. They discuss life, death, and fate as they step toward a luminous hill and a hopeful, shared future. The scene blends sci fi romance with existential musings as a man and woman find solace.
The London Tit-Bits recounts historic figures who lived as men. Dr James Barry rose to Inspector-General in the Army Medical Department, dying in 1835 at 70. Sophie Apitzsch posed as a man, faced arrest for fraud, and received a brutal public whipping before disappearing from the record.
An unnamed New York Sun reader recounts a string of everyday memory lapses in a humorous first person piece. The narrator describes misplacing tickets, paying with the wrong currency, forgetting to pick up change, and repeatedly trying to pay with a bill while a cashier or conductor keeps the change, reflecting a perennial forgetfulness in urban life.
Weemen organize road labor with horse and wagon attacking both ends of the Da vidstown to Buchanan road. They refuse compensation as road work requires supervisor approval and expect taxes as funding. More stonepicking parties may rally public support and pressure on authorities. Converted Egyptologist Dr Edward Falls adopts Islam as Ussa Mohammed.
A scholar argues against doom for descendants of insane or ill parents. He cites doctors Koll er and Diem statistics, urges publication of hopeful views, and advises living hygienic lives to avoid hereditary disease. The piece advocates breaking fear and focusing on health rather than stigma.
Keen observers note that new marriages of modest means favor short wedding tours of three to four days in Paris or popular resorts. Wealthier couples also shift toward economical honeymoons with weekend getaways and visits from friends for bridge and theatre. one bride returned to London after two days and hosted theatre parties, pleasing her relatives.
A Confederate bullet grazed President Lincoln as he stood near Ft. Stevens during a Washington defense. Lieutenant Colonel William P. Reome, adjutant general to Major General Upton, witnessed the moment and later recounted the near-miss with Lincoln smiling at the danger amid the ongoing bombardment and troop maneuvers.
The article cites Necker and medical authorities arguing death is painless as sensibility fades before full brain shutdown. It recounts cases of drowning, a child losing limbs, and a journalist wounded in Cuba, noting sensations fade and final death occurs without pain.
Efforts target the widespread habit of earth eating among Indians, notably gray shale from Methin Bikanir exported to the Tunjaub. The craving spans social strata, with bricks and pot fragments consumed as the habit grows, causing anemia, weakness, facial pallor, and dropsy. An Assam planter reduced cases by shaming offenders. A separate note mentions a 500 foot high elevator near Lucerne.
Dr. Conradi records experiments on young English sparrows kept with singing canaries to study how birds learn song. A three month old fledgling gradually acquires canary-like notes, later develops trill and complex melodic patterns, and regains sparrow calls when separated from canaries before regrouping with them.
A volume of Henry Ibeens letters reveals his poverty early life and later a self described press agency using friends as agents. It cites 1869 appeals to Lorenz Dietrichcca, letters to Laura Kieler and Baetzman drafts, plus anecdotes on his pride and a remark about a swindler. Also features mining news from Melbourne and a long account of Zuni medicine rites and a Parnell anecdote about two subeditors children with scarletina.
A motor car bursts a tire and skids into a Jain temple on the Delhi to Bombay road, triggering a riot. Three rescuers, former football players, force through priests to reach a native boy being roasted alive, free the victim, and flee as projectiles fly.
Harvard professor A. Lawrence Lowell argued before the National Municipal League that cities need a formal expert-nonprofessional balance. The expert would lead public work as a career with a liberal salary and protection from removal, while nonprofessionals would oversee management and be reappointed or elected at set intervals.
Second Officer Sywenson on the tank ship Aro! commanded by Capt Thomas, washed overboard in a hurricane like comber in a fierce mid Atlantic gale. He was swept away then rescued as the vessel sank into a swell. Crew members feared he was lost but Captain Thomas and loyal seamen pulled him back to deck.
Charles Scanlan, a popular mail carrier, spent 19 hours buried in snow after losing his way on a mountain road while transporting letters. He awoke in a buried drift, tunneled out using a pouch of letters, and emerged to recount his harrowing ordeal and the dramatic melt of the surrounding snow where the letters lay.
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