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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1923
Page
2
An advertisement lists loose and compact powders in white and tinted shades. It covers rice, talc, and zinc powders including lightly and heavily perfumed options. It markets powders for every user as an essential toilet adjunct.
Jones Stevens Frampton Rockhill and wife of Greencastle and Lawrence Rockhill and family of Fern visited R H Hill Sunday. A S Boone and wife visited G L Roger and wife Monday. Co E Hill and wife and Marion Aker and his mother of Reelsville and Ralph Crousure and wife of Green castle visited at Indianapolis Sunday. Oral Piller visited Martha Aker Monday. Edward Chew unloaded and delivered a car of coal last week. A number from here attended the Farmer's picnic at Greencastle Saturday. Harry Sutton and wife visited at Clay City Sunday. Cc R Foster and wife and Mr and Mrs Vickers of Brazil visited in the southern part of the state last week. Edgar Job and Paul Miller are in the prop business. Miss Fay Cook is visiting at Knightsville and Terre Haute.
Archaeologists report an ancient Coptic papyrus of the Gospel of John dated around 400 A D. It offers one of the earliest Christian texts and may influence accepted authority in Egypt. The manuscript shows small variations from known Greek copies.
In the seventeenth century the wig reached its peak in the peruke. Abbe La Riviere reportedly started it by visiting Louis XIII in a wig. The king, himself bald, found it a good idea and made wigs mandatory among discreet courtiers.
For rent a strictly modern furnished room for a lady. Contact via phone 656-L.
A compilation of real estate and sale notices including a six room house for rent at 622 East Washington Street with October 1 possession and 85 foot by 250 foot lot, apples for sale near Greencastle, and a good six room house for sale in Northwood with three acres and city electric and water.
Harry Roundtree recounts a dangerous incident in Torggourt Algeria where Arab knife makers demanded payment for his camera. A French hotel manager pursued justice at the police court, securing 28 days imprisonment for the aggressor. The Brit was urged to continue his work despite the scare.
A Massachusetts town opera house memory yields a joke. The janitor cannot recall the last performance, asking a colleague in the rear. The answer: Albert Anderson's trained monkeys were the last opry ever seen there.
Moody's Investors Service notes an exhaustive study by Prof Brianishni kof on Soviet Russia potash reserves. European Russia contains 5.568 billion tons of deposits, with Alsatian reserves at 2 billion tons. Recoverable phosphorus levels vary from over 24 percent to 35 percent across the total.
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