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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1919
Page
2
The notice lists subscription prices for Daily Herald by mail and in city delivery, and states a rate for Cards of Thanks. One year by mail is three dollars, four months are one dollar, and under four months ten cents. In city delivery the rate is ten cents weekly. Cards of Thanks are fifty cents each.
After dissolving the partnership, a public sale of farm property will begin at 10 o clock at Gil lespie farm seven miles north of Green castle and two miles south of Morton. Items include horses cattle hogs hay grain implements and seed and 350 acre farm to be sold privately. Lunch to be served by Union Chapel ladies. Rector Sherrill Auctioneers Joe Allen Clerk.
An article urges small orchard owners to invest in spraying to combat pests and diseases, detailing affordable gear, lime sulfur mixes, and lead arsenate use. It also covers frequent marketing of eggs, noting cases from Kansas farms showing varied frequencies from twice weekly to biweekly sales based on distance to markets.
Kept water dish clean and fresh for chickens with several daily changes and a thorough daily wash. Canada uses wireless telegraphy to report on forest fires and coordinate responses.
Captain J. Campbell Besley returns to New York from his second South American expedition with a giant eight foot human skull and ancient trepanned skulls said to be four or five thousand years old from Bolivia and Peru. He cites Indian legends of giants and notes prehistoric trepanation evidence and early surgical skill across the region.
A wireless like device detects faint electrical disturbances to trigger an alarm hours before a thunderstorm. It signals electricity providers to boost lighting. Other inventions include a waterproof skirt, a panic door latch, a milking can stool, and a windshield water repeller. Also described is a windmill style saw with resilient blades claimed to cut metal efficiently.
In Michigan College of Mines experiments in Tamarack mine shafts show ore drops do not fall straight down. Metal balls dropped into a vertical shaft mostly drift with wall contact due to earth’s west to east rotation. One ball vanished, the other struck the shaft wall below the surface.
Why flames always rise and never fall as lamp wicks and gas jets point upward. Hot gases in the flame are lighter than surrounding air, so they rise. A secondary cause is the draught created as hot gases leave the flame, drawing in cooler air to replace them.
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