Maple Heights Mission and Locust Street Church Activities
Maple Heights Mission holds 2:30 session led by Mrs Grace Black with officer elections for the new year. Rev J E Cash preaches at 7 30. Public welcome at both churches. bring a friend. Locust Street Church names Alvin Thomas organist and chorus director after Flossie Allen resigns for health reasons. Epworth League social draws 27 new members. London report notes mammoth skull fragment found in Denham burial. Ed C Hamilton and Charles J Arnold attend DePauw Purdue game in Lafayette.
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Maple Height Mission School
Grace Black
J. E. Cash
Epworth League
Locust Street Church
Alvin Thomas
Flossie Allen
Miss Allen
Martinsville
Heath
Where There's a Baby on Farm Keep Rat Snap
Rats are on most farms and can kill infants by biting. Nursing bottles attract rats. use RAT SNAP to rid your home. Break a cake of RAT SNAP and scatter it. three sizes available 35¢ 65¢ and $1.25, sold by John Cook & Sons and R P Mullins with guarantee.
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John Cook & Sons
R. P. Mullins
Circulation Statement for Greencastle Daily Herald
Ownership and circulation report for Greencastle Daily Herald filed October 1 1920. Editor Charles J Arnold Managing Editor Charles J Arnold Publisher Charles J Arnold Business Manager Charles J Arnold average six month circulation 1375 notarized by Hazel M Lear notary public with commission through 1924.
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Greencastle
Indiana
Greencastle Daily Herald
Charles J. Arnold
Hazel M
Lear
Classified Ads Multiple Notices and Job Openings
A collage of segments lists FOR RENT and WANTED notices and job calls including night cook positions, farm hand, farm tenant, and a general Herald Office posting. Auction and sale items note F. W. Backett public auction near Greencastle on Thursday October 7 at 10 30 AM with horses, cattle, hay, corn and farm implements.
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F. W. Backett
Earl Durham
Greencastle
Dobbs & Vestal
Steve Wood Shipley
Stand Alone or Die: The Power of Self-Reliance
A pointed exhortation argues that true strength comes from self development not imitation or reliance on others. It warns that leaning on others destroys independence and that parents who shield children may hinder their future success, urging young people to cultivate motive power and walk alone.
Pause to Find Happiness In Life’s Quiet Places
A Collier's excerpt reflects on not chasing future happiness but pausing at the present spot. Happiness can be found in art, research, love, home, or devotion to larger causes. It notes nature's refreshment in sea power, autumn abundance, and calm, infinite horizons.
Self-Reliance and the Power of Doing It Yourself
Beecher recounts a boy learning self reliance through strict teaching at the blackboard. The teacher demands the lesson be learned and rejected excuses, teaching intellectual independence and courage to defend one’s recitations. The story concludes that true progress comes from knowing and proving one’s own knowledge rather than ongoing help from others.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Living in the moment and transforming pain into growth
The piece argues that people should value living in the present rather than lamenting mutability. Enduring pain becomes courage and discipline, while reducing sorrow through energy, voluntary renunciations, and addressing sources of poverty, ignorance, dishonesty, and selfishness to increase both personal and universal happiness.
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Harper’s Weekly
Ants Adapt Nectar Glands to Farm Mealy Bugs in Greenhouse
In the Indiana Farmer account, Dr. Howard of the Bureau of Entomology notes ants in a greenhouse discovering nectar glands on Siberian coffee tree leaves. The ants enlarge the glands to host mealy bugs, creating a self-sustaining nectar farm, illustrating high order intelligence in insects.
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Howard
Bureau of Entomology
Department of Agriculture
Dr. Howard
Indiana
College Humor and Campus Pranks Through History
A San Francisco News Letter criticizes college humor and recalls Stanford frolics where freshmen wore bullcaps and one leg of pants turned up. It cites a tale of King Gould using a revolver to resist campus bullies and a silk hat episode ending with the hat wearer hailed as the greatest roughhouse fighter.
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San Francisco News- Letter
Stanford
Kingdon Gould
Loston
Ile
Rich Man Not Held For High Medical Fees
A St. Louis court ruled against Dr. M. P. Morrell in a suit against Dr. Joseph J. Lawrence, dismissing with costs and awarding only 5 000 against 16 000. The decision holds wealth should not force payment for medical services beyond what a poor man pays. The ruling criticizes flaunted riches and allows wealth to shield high charges in some cases while defending the prudent in others. From Leslie's Weekly.
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St. Louis
M. P. Morrell
Joseph J. Lawrence
New York
Leslie's Weekly
Spectator Sport in Hanging Preface
A riff on public interest in executions portrays hanging as a grisly, popular spectacle. The piece argues people attend to witness death, comparing it to a circus and touting its spectacle and cost efficiency as a form of violent entertainment.
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North American Review
The Professors Lot and Life’s True Rewards
A discussion by George M Stratton contrasts professor life with banker lawyer and physician statuses. He argues professors complain about rewards yet face greater opportunities, and that personal effort decides success rather than institutional blame.
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George M Stratton
Athantic
Old Pools and the Curse of the Old Fool
The piece defines old fools as those with wedding rings and credulity, or excessive complaisance, highlighting that age brings discretion yet shaky health marks the stereotype. It cites classical drama to claim old fools have uses, notably acting as lightning rods for adventuresses and protecting young men from future misfortune.
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Dane
Menander
Plantus
Terence
Newark Police Move Against Cocaine in Schools
Newark police pursue suppression of cocaine traffic among schoolboys, warning that any temporary lapse at side doors could invite renewed drug activity and threaten student safety.
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Newark
Fragmented OCR Text, Ambiguous Morality and Mistrust
Unclear passage mentions Koreas Moroccos Sant Domingos and benevolent assimilation ideas with urging to keep suiting up. The readable parts hint at shifting identity and belonging but provide no concrete event, date, place, or person. Recovered facts are too fragmentary to determine a coherent news item.
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Koreas
Moroccos
Sant Domingos
Sich
Church Support and The Call for Generous Givers
An editorial notes church funds suffer as many donors favor their clubs over the church. It urges cheerful giving, warns that lack of support hinders ministry, and argues leaders should model generosity beyond laymen.
Device to hold book leaves open with adjustable clamps
A board with parallel perforations supports bars that hold adjustable clips to clamp books or flat sheets. The holder prevents closing and keeps pages visible while allowing hand movement, tilting to any position for copying or viewing.
Growth of Pearl Button Industry on the Mississippi
Will M. Narvis of Muscatine in Des Moines states the pearl button industry along the Mississippi is thriving with a steady demand for workers. He notes about 6,000 people employed up and down the river, with Muscatine as the industry center, producing around 2,000,000 dollars in pearl buttons last year. He says competition with French buttons is strong and predicts the high level will continue for centuries with abundant deposits.
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Mississippi River
Will M. Narvis
Muscatine
Des Moines
Des Moines Register and Leader
Destruction of Denver Mint Ends Historic Era
The old Denver United States Mint building is demolished as the contraction party claims ownership of all materials including plaster. They plan to process the rubble to recover gold dust, recalling the mint’s early struggles and the 1879 Leadville strikes that boosted bullion throughput.
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United States Mint
Denver
Leadville
Bowtteher
Lodore Falls Joke Ties Adjectives To Dry Water
After visiting Niagara Falls and Southey's Lodore poem a traveler sought the Lodore cataract in England. He reached Keswick and searched urged by locals. A native finally told him he was sitting on the falls of Lodore, for the adjectives were dry.
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Niagara Falls
Southey
Lodore
England
Falls of Lodore
Keswick
Falls of
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