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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1920
Page
3
A dense sale catalog shows specials on canned peaches apricots apples pineapples and vegetables with prices per can or per number of cans. It includes Sugar Corn Hominy Tomatoes Beans Pork and Beans Salmon and various fruit preserves coffee soaps and cleaners with itemized prices and pack sizes.
The article traces General Maxime Weygand as a Belgian-born orphan raised by a French family who rose to high French military rank. It notes his adoption, education at St Cyr, rapid ascent to lieutenant colonel by 26, command roles under Foch, and prominent positions in the War Council and Allied military committees.
In Pittsburgh a dispute over how to bathe a pig ends with Thomas O Connor jailed ten days after a domestic quarrel. His wife claimed hot water is used. he insisted on cold baths and punched her. Magistrate De Wolf sentenced him to ten days in jail.
Local notes report many residents visiting Indianapolis for the DePauw Wabash football game. Attendees include Mrs Cammack, Prof Tilden, Mrs Barnaby, Charley Moffett, Cleve Thomas and Danville Republican staff. Police report a safe in Dr Sears office robbed of bonds gold and jewelry valued around 750.
A Greencastle Indiana page lists laborer openings at Indiana Portland Cement Co and office positions at The Herald Office along with lost watch and key ring notices. It also notes a public sale of 71 acres near Walnut Creek adjourning a bridge scheduled for Saturday December 1st 1920 with auctioneers Lew Shank and C. P. Foreman.
Central Trust Company advertises demand certificates paying 4 percent. The offers urge savers to keep funds working with on demand payout during this period.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger writer notes Bulgaria’s rose harvest supports about 173 villages and roughly twenty five million pounds of rose powers. From 160 to 200 pounds of roses produce one ounce of attar, and three hundred roses make a pound. Distillation uses copper boilers, yielding redistilled “second rose waters” with globules that become the attar.
Two Indians brought a fanciful suit before an English magistrate claiming damage to a cornfield from a castle along a right of way. The magistrate found no field or cattle, exposing a quarrel over a worn and a mythical dispute created to win the prize.
A Louisville rumor column quotes a couple arguing over inheritance and money with one partner vowing to build an opera house if heirloom funds arrive. The exchange highlights disputes about money prospects and marital trust.
A fragment recounts Jinks denying deep love for music, claiming the tune was saved only as a tank offering since he did not live nearby. The remark reflects a casual, humorous exchange without further context.
Richensmdoah, Tney Sev ernoon Carl Siverson of Charles dry Ta near Neesheaa found a clam with a pearl valued at 400 dollars. The pearl weighs 12 grains and is white with a strong luster. Siverson works as a laborer on the Central railroad at Nashua and lives in a small cottage near the tracks.
In South Bend, Indiana reports allege two men exploited Joseph Gallos by claiming 21000 belonged to the city poor and persuading him to add 1400 to the fund. A roll presented as the donation turned out to contain four dollars wrapped in newspaper.
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