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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1920
Page
2
The Greencastle Herald notes second class mail status and lists Charles J. Arnold as proprietor. It announces publication every afternoon except Sunday at 17 and 19 S Jackson Street with telephone 65. Obituaries and Cards of Thanks are charged, with obituaries at $1 each and poetry lines at 5c per line.
In a Kansas City Star article, Rev Jasper argues the sun moves across the sky and through space at high speed, dragging Earth and other planets along. It describes stars as suns in motion and outlines the expanding view of multiple universes beyond our own Milky Way.
The Waxworks display in Whitechapel features four parts honoring women war workers. It shows roles such as ship painter, refinery worker, airship smoker, munition worker, farmerette, and a female operator. Other images depict women operating machinery, driving cranes, and performing tasks in gan works, brick dressing, bricklaying, and coke handling.
Health brief from the United States Public Health Service explains that proper foot alignment matters for overall health. It promotes walking with toes pointing forward, exercises to strengthen arches, and advises medical care for flat feet rather than relying on store bought arches.
In a humorous exchange, Mr Hatotin and Squire Heaton boast of their wives industrious nursing aid. The wives knit socks scarves and wristlets for the Red Cross, with counts cited and jokes about worn needles and unrecorded total production.
Toxepl Bamcreft, a reader at King's College in England, survived six days in a hermetically sealed box to study oxygen in blood and breath. The test aimed to show if oxygen affects blood levels and whether airmen need oxygen at high altitudes. He logged solutions and observations, suffered dizziness, and on the final day endured extreme rarefaction with headaches.
A fragmented report notes Maj Hob Thoms noted for buying Milford Haven town for a quarter million sterling and hints at earlier oddball scenes including a supposed millionaire plot. The text references confusion among the public and various figures like Ket Crisp as seven great powers, including Great Britain, move to check someone advancing a peripheral cause.
In ancient times Petra flourished as a caravan hub linking Arabia Persia and India to Egypt and Syria. Romans claimed the site as a fortress of wealth and trade but declined as power waned. Swiss explorer Burckhardt later rediscovered Petra, with limited western visits since.
Mary Winchester, abducted at age six by northern Assam natives, survived the war and was praised by Queen Victoria after charity by Moray and Nairn officials. Her return sparked town celebrations and a royal reception, ending in joyous hometown reunions.
A confused report suggests a U S federal bureau found a rare sugar derivative and radium like compounds in Marfa. The text claims bees succumbed to a mysterious substance crystallizing in hives amid summer Pennsylvania conditions, causing deaths of miners or diggers.
An essay on human endurance argues that while strength favors animals, humans outrun others over long distances. It notes a racehorse can sprint fast for short stretches, but a trained man can beat any horse in a hundred mile race.
A specimen of the platypus, an odd creature of Australia and Tasmania, is on display in the National Museum. It combines features of beaver, duck, and otter, with a duck-like bill, webbed feet, and mammalian lactation, illustrating its unique biology.
A lengthy article describes Lacy Perere as a one legged Brazilian devil with a humorful, nonlethal nature and sharp features. It traces origins to Tupi language and Brazilian folklore, noting his jumping method and ties to myths about the Steyrs and wind tornadoes.
An account describes Capt. HB Osann's World War I propaganda raid on the Metz front using leaflets in Alsace Lorriane. A patrol slipped within 50 yards of an observation post, shouting names and triggering eerie reports of a “ghost” calling soldiers by name, with officers recording the incident and preparing counter measures.
A humorous exchange features a faint newspaper chatter about a “sorehead bolts” line and a “soreheart bolts together” quip. A Vacationist notes the city takes what you raise while a farmer replies that it also takes the help they raise.
A collection of witty fragments centered on social scenes and personal quirks. Phrases poke at appearance, devotion to hobbies, social function jitters, and playful disputes over attire and poets.
A jumble of quoted lines and fragments touches on marriage, politics, religion, love, and advice. Phrases reference nominating committees, engine trouble, apartments, faith, and judgments, with scattered observations on honesty, work, and wisdom. The text reads as a collage of snippets without a single coherent event.
An article notes German physician Griestweh describing left handedness as linked to brain hemisphere dominance. It warns coercive reeducation toward right handedness may disrupt hemisphere differentiation in childhood, though adults show limited harm from conversion.
Jamaica women in the British West Indies are to vote in parish boards and the legislature under a new statute. Eligibility requires age twenty five, literacy, British nationality, and salary or property qualifications including £ a year, or £0 rent, or £2 rates on property.
A Durham miner narrowly escaped two pit perils and then won a chancery fortune of 500000, while en route to parish relief for his family.
The famous victory hut at Dablensz, built to feed 7000 from bridge heads, is being torn down as landmarks of the first army retreat fade. Civilian workers prepared meals while the building served as cafeteria and canteen for fight hinges. a heavy November snow nearly collapsed it, but authorities revised plans and kept use through winter. The Stars and Stripes remains.
The article notes sweet potatoes, or yams, are expanding in markets as curing and storage methods improve. New storage plants in the South are aiding preservation, and better varieties are being developed. A campaign promotes wider marketing of superior sweet potatoes across the country.
In a Topeka State Journal summary a Kansas woman cites incompatibility of religious temperament as a reason in a divorce case. She testified she could tolerate her husband being a Holy Roller but objected to his three AM returns claiming he studied the Book of Revelation with a friend.
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