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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1920
Page
4
Hampton Gray ready to marry Miss Gertrude Lamont for fifty thousand dollars after an executor's letter. A disguise and ruse backfire when Uncle Andrew Littleton turns up alive with Miss Lamont, revealing the con and a real match.
In a tense morning, Hampton confronts a suspected impostor posing as Hampton Grey and learns from Uncle Andrew that he forged a letter to test Hampton. The hoax aimed to uncover feelings and actions after a supposed death, revealing Miss Lamont as the heir who sails for Europe to finish education. The scene ends with a volatile confrontation at the old boardhouse.
A young man named Rollo calls on a girl whose giggles derail his social life. He misreads laughter as mockery, loses confidence, and ends up rejected, cynical, and living a withdrawn life in a Carnegie library reading room. The tale warns that not all laughter is mocking.
The text argues that while universal compulsory education in China would be advantageous, the plan is impractical due to costs and implementation challenges. It notes the need for well drained dry soil and proper poultry housing design as general agricultural guidance, and observes a dairy cattle point: after a cow has several calves her traits become reliable for breeding value.
The article praises Havana's regeneration with cooler sea breezes, spring showers, and improved streets, squares, and parks. It notes the removal of yellow fever deaths and highlights the Malacon and Prada as centerpiece recreations, crediting American efforts and renovations since 1902.
The famed Civil War mascot Old Abe, the Eighth Wisconsin Infantry bird, perished in a Madison Capitol fire. Captured 1861 on the Flambeau river, it became a regimental symbol from Camp Randall to battlefields, later sparking circus interest and high feather-value before its loss.
The article describes Spaniards in Cuba as a small but powerful group. It notes roughly 160,000 natives of Spain, their control of commerce and money, and ownership of hotels and steamship lines. It discusses historic exclusion of Cubans from government and the changing dynamic as Spaniards and Cubans confront the future.
Cabman superstitions include avoiding a red tie at morning, a white top hat bringing luck to Zack, and a cab with a lamppost touch. An old gentleman in plaid trousers is said to be worth ten dollars. Mrs. Flynn moves in and a neighbor visits, with cheerful talk about callin terms and mutual calling.
Describes sheep in southwestern deserts surviving 40 to 60 days without water in winter, peccaries in Sonora’s dry hills living months without water, and a pocket-cheeked poet mouse that survives on dry birdseed with minimal moisture. Notes experiments showing mice drink none yet stay healthy, challenging assumptions about hydration in extreme aridity.
The article notes shorthand origins in the Greco Roman world with rapid writing systems. It credits early forms dating from the first century BCE, mentions the term semelograph in the second century AD, and highlights Marcus Tullius Tiro as pivotal to developing stenography for Cicero and legal proceedings.
A scientist reports red-haired individuals are less prone to baldness. He cites estimates of scalp hair counts: red-haired people averaging about 20,200 hairs, dark hair around 105,000, and fair-haired individuals commonly 140,000 to 160,000 hairs.
The kite, a joy of boyhood, has practical roles in engineering by carrying lines across deep chasms to set heavier cables and support the erection of structures. It can also carry life lines over surf to rescue passengers from stranded vessels.
A German investigator advocates filtering pipe smoke with cotton soaked in terric salts to remove fumes of essential oil hydrogen sulfide hydrocyanic acid and about half the nicotine and its decomposition products while preserving aroma.
The Four Track News reports that German state railway conductors must now speak English and French in addition to German. Those failing the examination will be discharged, making qualification tougher and likely excluding many candidates except professors from Heidelberg and Bonn.
The custom of marrying girls at ages nine or ten is rising in Bengal and other parts of India. Authorities have begun enacting laws to ban marriages of girls under 14 to curb racial degeneration and protect young girls from early unions.
The New York World depicts Calientes Nevada as a booming railroad camp turned wicked frontier town. With civil engineers and labor crews arriving, tents and shacks rise, saloons and gambling flourish, and thieves and rowdy promoters flood the place attracting miners and cowboys chasing wages and vice before workers move on.
An Englishwoman in the Russian interior recounts household life with practical notes. She describes making moss sugar, churning cream in bottles, and Cossack washing methods. Icehouses in villages preserve milk and foods, with large ice blocks hauled from distant waters across the steppe.
An observe jeweler from the Philadelphia Record argues that winding a watch in the morning yields steadier, more regular winding than at night. He notes most people wind before bed and that fatigue leads to jerky or improper winding, suggesting a fixed morning point during routine as best.
A cooperative plan to amalgamate over a hundred existing Pig Insurance clubs in Wiltshire and form new village pig clubs. The Wiltshire Pit Insurance and Provident Association will be registered under the friendly societies act to strengthen pig insurance nationwide.
Turpentine is recommended as a preventive for moths. Saturate pieces of brown oak or cedar and place them in boxes to deter infestation.
Fishermen dragged a massive ray nearly forty feet long and weighing close to a ton from the bay near Manzanillo Mexico. A gasoline launch assisted, and the creature was harpooned after a lengthy pursuit ending on low rocks where the fish lay waning before being landed.
A fragmented report discusses whether Poynett qualifies as a seaport and notes a 1879 trench network defining its sea boundary. It describes a three masted ship linked to Pliny legend found near Messigna in 1833, and traces of ancient sea crests from Yerra Annunziata to Castellammass along the River Sarno, with cliffs near Rovigiano.
A Russian spy Zinaida Suollant, sentenced in Leipzig to months imprisonment, earned 10000 a year salary and used it to reach high German society. Over eleven years she passed 60 military secrets and won the confidence of more than 100 officials and officers. German authorities regard her as the era's most dangerous spy and banish her on release.
A strange report describes a culture using ground mummy and asphaltum to create a rare pigment. It claims centuries of impregnation in tissues yielded the best paint material in the world.
Colored rain coated Angers France with millions of red green and yellow insects lasting hours. The swarm choked water pipes and clogged streets as townspeople shoveled them away in cart loads.
A curious relic from the whaling era remains in the pavement leading to the west door of San Carlos de Borromeo church. The object, linked to Monterey's whalebone industry, is well preserved and presents a neat repair.
An estimate places annual golf expenditure at 1n millions sterling. England hosts 879 clubs, America 760, Scotland 632, and Ireland 124, totaling 2,395 clubs and about 600,000 players.
A fragment notes a steamship laden with mail and newspapers bound for distant ports. It mentions large consignments and a meditation on life and service, attributed to Countess of Warwick, reflecting a 19th or early 20th century tone. The readable text mixes shipping detail with a philosophical closing remark.
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