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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1919
Page
4
A London Tribune correspondent notes a rising trend of cigarette use among domestic workers. Registry offices report maids and cooks adopting smoking, imitating upper-class habits. The piece urges ladies seeking staff to ensure new housemaids and nurses are not smokers.
The Molassine World reports bizarre poultry tales from coast guards, farmyards, and museums. Eggs claim to defy size and form with 75 percent by 6 percent inch specimens, interior double yolks, and a four footed goose egg. A duck egg contains another inside, and a Paris museum shows joined end to end twins. An egg found in Paris mortar allegedly remained intact for 300 years inside a church wall.
The New York Sun notes why policemen wear their badges low over the heart. The star shield has saved lives by deflecting bullets and knife thrusts in past decades. Off duty, some wear the badge on a vest but always above the heart, a habit to feel secure.
In Offham Kent a village quintain remains attached to a house as a deed requirement. The wooden post supports a swinging crossbar with a square target of holes for a lance. When struck the handbag on the opposite end swings and could unseat the player if not quick.
An army doctor observed that music heard near a wounded soldier reduced or stopped bleeding. The exact mechanism unknown, but belief centers on air vibration causing fainting and a slowed heart, reducing blood overflow. The Tid-Bits note cites this as a strange medical use of music.
London News comments on a Chinese man describing odd manners such as shaking his own hand, keeping out of step, tipping the hat as politeness, whitening boots, riding with heels, a south pointing compass, and discarding melon fruit in favor of seeds.
A fragment lists quaint superstitions of old time medicine. Epilepsy supposedly cured by coffin ring or seven drops of Wood from a cat’s tail. toothache by soldier’s tooth in pocket or mouse nibbled bread. wart cures include potato and chalk methods, or potato given to a pig. A cat’s ear held against the affected finger for thirty minutes is also cited as a remedy for a felon.
A historical note describes a photograph showing a Ferris wheel style amusement ride in Jalpaigure. It mentions hill people of India enjoying the apparatus for generations, highlighting cultural amusement practices in a past era.
A group of women in Los Angeles forms the Hundred Year club with the aim of longevity through careful body and mind care. Members who reach ninety will be admitted with privileges free of dues or expenses, targeting lifespans to a hundred years or more.
A new papyrus discovery at Hermopolis under Italian direction led by Breccia yields official documents and literary fragments. The cache includes part of an unknown epic and additional material of scholarly interest.
A Mount Olivet item describes John S. Massey of Mitchell presenting eight ears of corn fused in one head. One central ear is surrounded by seven that form a circle, with unusually large well-developed grains observed.
In a tea-room conversation Mabel recounts a vacation romance with Aubrey Johnson. A sudden storm, long innuendos, and a humorous country evening unfold as Aubrey departs with gifts. Mabel decides to stay in town, and the two discuss an engagement that never fully materializes.
Discusses cut cameos from onyx and sardonyx quarried near Uruguay in Brazil. Large pieces are costly about seventy five dollars, valued for hardness and layered color contrasts. Intaglio carving sinks figures. modern grinding with diamond dust aids, but perfection demands extreme precision and patience.
Tar and feathers is not a peculiarly American practice. Richard the Lion Hearted reportedly introduced the punishment while preparing for the third crusade. He warned that a thief would be punished by beheading with boiling pitch and feathers poured on him. The method’s origin is questioned, and it is noted that later lands may claim it, though tar and feathers are no longer our own.
The American Magazine notes diverse Mexican cacti: one grows toothpicks with teeth-like spines for combs, another has curved spines like fish hooks, another imitates sea urchins, yet another resembles a porcupine. Some varieties act as timepieces as Cereus nycticalus blooms 7 PM to 7 AM, others open at different hours.
The Woman's Home Companion reports child labor expanding in Pennsylvania with over 6 000 more in a single year and 20 600 in eight years. New York sees above 19 percent rise in three years and 28 percent in five. Iowa notes wild labor trebling in four years, signaling a growing national shame at domestic thresholds.
A priceless Rothschild grandfather clock, originally costing over 150090 dollars, features a day and month dial, moon phases, hourly strikes, and quarterly bells. It has a rare second hand, a Wertherheimer case fourteen feet tall, with an eagle atop and Peace and War figures on the sides, all carved with emblems on the panels and body.
In Hiermallescus Huy on the Meuse a long feared disappearance of river guards is solved. Heat caused expansion loosening railings from stone pockets, dropping them into the water. Also noted is a remark that fourteen pounds of every hundred pounds of food consumed are potatoes.
In a terse, dialogic scene a neighbor notes a massive blast at a home. The event sends the father and mother flying from a window while others observe a long period of estrangement ending at the moment of danger. The editor and assistant mock the condensed reporting.
A fragment shows Percy voicing thoughts of being missed after death while Ethel responds that his father might care. The exchange hints at family dynamics and concern within a tense or distressed moment, though the full context is unclear from the snippet.
In Greek islands diving for sponges is a major livelihood. A girl’s marriage hinges on collecting sponges and proving skill by depth. In some islands the custom rewards the best diver with marriage to the maid, the one who stays longest underwater and brings up the largest sponge cargo.
The article argues that premium champagne corks must be hand made rather than machine produced. While ordinary corks are manufactured mechanically, the finest work relies on human skill to ensure blemishes are avoided and quality remains high.
A Pittsburg Dispatch account describes Arabian marriage customs with a mock battle to storm the home, forced ascent of the bride onto a camel, and a ten day celebration. The bride, heavily adorned in sky blue trousseau with gold and pearls, remains somber as revelry continues around her.
A historical note discusses plant luminescence as a respiration related phenomenon with carbonic acid emission, distinct from putrefactive phosphorescence caused by microbes. It covers olive agaric light, its soft white glow, required conditions, and heat and moisture sensitivities, mentioning tobacco and cotton root leaves as context.
A wife recounts her brother Bob’s relentless need to stay busy and create odd tasks. He converts an unused henhouse into a arbor, rigs a ladder to clean gutters, installs an electric bell on a dining table, grafts a tree, and paints boardwalks. The family worries about idle time and contemplates work or unusual projects to keep him occupied.
A quirky 1875 fragment discusses pants as social and existential artifacts. It contrasts human trousers worn by men with dog apparel, notes seasonal thickness, patches, and the enduring image of asbestos pants in a wheat field on a sweltering day. The piece weaves humor with blunt reflections on labor, class, and mortality.
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