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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1920
Page
2
Public notice from Greencastle Indiana indicating second class mail status and address at 17 and 19 S Jackson Street. It states cards of thanks are charged at 50 cents each and lists Charles J Arnold as proprietor.
A historic Church of England convocation at Canterbury debated removing the word obey from the marriage service. Bishops discussed equality and partnership, with the Lincoln bishop proposing an amendment later withdrawn, while Canterbury’s archbishop urged postponement to a future occasion. Strong opinions emerged on whether rubrics or broader questions should guide the change.
A frightened resident describes a knock at the door and a noise that drove the occupant to retrieve a revolver. A intruder fled into the dining room where the resident fired, hitting only a hat but not the coat. The incident ends with the resident realizing it was a mistaken impression of her own presentation.
The Jerome Arizona copper mine employs steam shovels and a plenum ventilation system to tackle blazing stopes and explode rock. Miners removed the slag dump, prepared new surface roads, and plan to ship ore to Clarkdale smelter seven miles away.
The London Chronicle notes that heckling derives from a textile teasing machine and praises the Scottish heckler for orderly conduct. It cites Murdoch Macpherson of Sauchiehall and describes procedural cross examination as a model, while contrasting it with British political disorder and the rise of prohibition beginnings in 1808.
Mushrooms thrive in cellars caves abandoned mines or specially built houses where temperature and moisture can be regulated. Cold is less injurious than heat but severe or frequent temperature changes slow growth or destroy profits.
The text stresses moisture control for mushroom houses noting that excessive dampness or rapid ventilation requiring repeated watering harms crop quality. It advises using stable manure beds that are fermented or composted for commercial mushroom production.
A countryside expert explains that late potato varieties perform best in moderately cool climates with loamy soil. Good crops require tillage to make nutrients available, with manure or fertilizer used if needed. Deep fall plowing and spring refurrow, plus a clover or wheat oat stubble rotation, aid crop readiness while avoiding scab from mixed fertilizers.
The land for strawberries should be in a cultivated crop a year before setting plants to reduce wireworms and worms. Avoid old sod except new clover. deep plowing turns under surface matter and harrowing pulverizes the soil to a fine seedbed.
Six year trials measured yield responses to manure rates of 10 kilograms per hectare with varying fertilizer blends. Beets and potatoes produced the highest absolute yields when manure was paired with commercial fertilizers, notably without nitrate of soda for the greatest relative gains. The strongest increases occurred with manure plus fertilizer, yet the top totals came from combining both sub-treatments.
Farmers complain that hiring reliable milkers is hard and many fail to milk cows thoroughly. The text notes the strain of keeping high producing cows and the frustration over inconsistent labor. It references a well known owner and high milk yields, attributing issues to helper quality and dedication.
Leading nations keep magnetic surveys to refine charts as the earth's magnetic poles drift and varied forces from the sun and internal core alter declination. Agonic lines shift yearly requiring new surveys to redraw lines on maps for accurate navigation.
Dr Galippe of the French Academy of Science reports amber trapped life forms that may predate Egyptian papyri. Biologists consider them among the earliest fire bearing elements once imprisoned during amber formation. The micro organisms show life signs when released and cultivated, remarkable survivals from a prehistoric era.
Ancient sources state geometry arose from Greek surveyors measuring land flooded by the Nile. Historians link practical needs of land boundaries after inundations to the early development of geometric methods and principles.
How to begin with bees and equipment, choosing hive types and bees, spring timing, and building toward a sustainable practice. Advice covers selecting Italian or black bees, buying hives with wired foundation, expanding with first swarms, and using frame hives for long term success. Emphasizes patience, proper care of combs, and gradual learning through experience.
French experimenters led by M Bordenase report producing gas by burning vegetable matter to run a small motor. Costs per horsepower per hour vary by material from leaves and straw to hay and sawdust, with leaves showing low costs and straw offering better efficiency for farm use. Translation in Public Opinion.
Instructions suggest drilling oats at naval time then sowing rape seed about four weeks later and covering with a light barrow. This plan promises rape pasture after oats are harvested if the soil is fertile.
A playful outline for a guessing contest titled AMERICAN CITIES and PROMINENT PREOPLE lists riddles pairing places and people with humorous clues. It invites reader participation, noting the host may adjust the list and keep readers amused with witty prompts.
A cryptic set of clues links figures like Criste and Mother Goose to roles such as Sky Pilot and The Doctor. The fragment hints at wordplay involving steering, parentage, and objects like wagon and garden tool.
Readers solve a wordplay list where each clue combines two items to yield a flower name. Examples include Buttercup from a dairy product plus a dish with a handle and Smilax from a smiling expression plus a wood chopping tool, with other pairs yielding Phlox Dandelion Jonquil Larkspur Foxglove Forget me not Carnation Cowslip. The article invites participation and hints at a child friendly activity.
Sides are chosen from players facing each other in two lines. Each line has a basket with twelve clothespins at the head. Players hold neighbors wrists and pass clothespins along the line to the leader. When all twelve reach the head they are passed back. the first side to return all pins wins. A dropped pin must be recovered by the spiller before resuming.
A reader recalls a playful tongue twister about a bitter bittern and a better bitten bittern. The verse evolves through repeated phrases showing how sounds collide in a rapid speech sequence.
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