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Greencastle Herald

Location

Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Oct 07, 1921

Page

2

Tee Herald Cards of Thanks and Obituaries

Wards of thanks are charged at a rate of each. This public notice acknowledges gratitude and lists obituaries and related notices from the Tee Herald.

Roadside trees shape two scenery types in named essay

The piece argues roadside beauty comes in two types: structures and adjacent elements framing the road, or open vistas where shade trees create frames and break long views. It urges planting suited varieties and selective removal to enhance attractiveness along highways.

Governor Lake Warns on Beauty and Economic Value

Connecticut Governor Lake proclaims Arbor and Bird Day urging teachers and pupils to learn that planting shade trees protecting birds and eggs adds economic value and beauty. He calls for town village beautification and tidy well kept roads lawns to raise property values and welfare.

Lake Connecticut Luke

City Planning Courses in Kansas City Schools

Do.D. Pinkerton, president of the Kansas City board of education, notes city planning courses are taught in all schools. Civics are emphasized from youth, with a primer used in Humboldt School addressing neighborhood beauty, cleanliness, and property improvement through civic pride.

D. Pinkerton Kansas City Board of Education Walter Ghilnghagen Humboldt School

Spanish Tang Sticks to City Alamo Scene of Historic Flood

Washington DC and San Antonio Texas publish a National Geographic bulletin on the city famed for the Alamo. It traces San Antonio from a Spanish Mexican mission town to a modern hub, noting old streets, missions, and the river now hidden by commerce.

Washington, D. C San Antonio Texas Washington, D.C National Geographic Society Leon Antonio Spain Mexico America Bullettin el Presidio de San Antonio de Bexar San Antonia Antonio Dallas Houston Commerce Texas Street Syracuse Atlinta Memphis Dayton Latin America Republic Simone Alamo Presidio Genesee Rochester Sidlere

Tall husband and wife pair from Port Arthur

Jane Van Albert, now married, is nine feet five inches tall husband, five feet four inches tall. They grew up in Holhand and met again in Winnipeg where his circus employs him.

Port Arthur Can Jane van Albert Holhand Winnipee van Albert

Colonel Nazim Bey Dies Hero of Turkish Nationalist Army

Colonel Nazim Bey, commanding the fourth division, was killed while saving Gen Ismet Pasha's main force from a rear attack by Greek forces in the Kutahia region. Ismet Pasha lauded his heroism and intelligent valor, noting Nazim Bey remained with his unit for two days of heavy fighting, was wounded, and died ensuring the army's retreat.

Nazim Bey Ismet Pasha Kitalia Arg Nazim Nuazin Kutahia Navin Bey Kismet Noxgim Rey

Huge Skeleton Unearthed in Indiana Mound Discovery

Indiana state museum displays a six foot plus skeleton believed to be a mound builder. Discovered by T C Heistant and Dick Guernsey in a mound near the White River, the skeleton was found in Lawrence County. Dr W N Logan notes dating uncertain but predates recorded Native American history. The mound features a square vault of limestone slabs and the remains lie largely intact.

Indianapolis Ind Indiana W. N. Logan State T. C. Heistant Bloomington Dick Guernsey Bedford East Fork White River Lawrence County Locon

Go Bear? Man Seeks Goat Bear in Southeast Asia

San Francisco dealer D S Rabb sails for Cardbodia Indo China to hunt the elusive goat bear. He reports rare sightings by whites and claims the creature may be a bear with goat horns or a goat with bear claws. Local natives refuse aid due to witchcraft superstition.

San Francisco D. S Rabb Los Angeles Cardbodia Indo-China Althoug

San Francisco Enologist Offers Nonintoxicating Wine Aid

An expert enologist advertises services for families who wish to make nonintoxicating wine. An enologist is defined as a person thoroughly experienced in the making of wine.

San Francisco Cal

Neighbors Allege Home Brew Fumes Caused Intoxication

Thomas Higgins of Brooklyn faced Magistrate Liota after neighbors complained fumes from Higgins home brew made them drunk. Higgins was warned not to brew for a year or taste another’s product.

Thomas Tiggins Brooklyn N. Y Hiseighbors Liota Piggins Fom Higgins

Two-Story Crop Proves Success in Orchards Farming Boom

In Vancouver vicinity, Fourth Plain and Orchards rise as a new chicken prune system spreads. A farmer named Renny pioneered raising chickens beneath prune trees, fertilizing light well drained soil. Now about 500 chicken ranches dot the district, with rapid growth expected as Orchards nears its peak as a major chicken country near Vancouver and Portland.

Vancouver Fourth Plain Orchards Hudson Bay Company Hudson Bay Washington Renny Benny Renny Place United States Petaluma Cal Cess Wash Portland Ore

Mark Weygandt Sets Mount Hood Climbing Record

Hood River guide Mark Weygandt, a forty four year old up river homesteader, completed his th registe red ascent of Mount Hood with a party. He has guided over two thousand climbers from around the world and piloted more than 225 summits this season. He first climbed Hood at age twenty four and expects continued work as snow peak access grows with road improvements.

Hood River Oregon Mark Weygandt Upper Valley Mount Hood Weygandt

Bear cub found near Mayburg may be released

A twelve year-old boy near Mayburg Forest County found a creature he believed to be a puppy. It proved to be a month old bear cub. Officials planned to send it to Harrisburg then release it in a game preserve or to a private facility at a cost of about 200 dollars. The cub is described as playful and likely separated from its mother by forest fires.

Franklin Mayburg Forest County Harrisburg

Teachers Targeted: Vegetables Hurling Ends School in Teacon NY

In Teacon New York pupils at Miss Benatrice Ham’s Mill Brook school hurled fruit and vegetables as disobedience. Taxpayers held an executive session to shutter the school and relocate students to Wappiner’s Falls.

Teacon N. Y Myers Corners Volga Miss Ham Wappiner’s Falls

Amundsen and Baby Eskimo Adoptions Highlight Explorer

Capt Reali Amondsen and his adopted child Cakenita are noted as the youngestEskimo child among two the famed explorer adopted on his final northern voyage.

Reali Amondsen Cakenita

Canary and Mouse Form Unlikely Friendship in West Chester

In Mrs Louise Sweneys East Barnard Street home a canary and a mouse have formed a strange friendship. The canary, wary of strangers, acts as guardian especially at night, sheltering the mouse with its wing while they share the cage.

West Chester Louise Sweney Barnard Street

Germans Sell War Dogs In Berlin Auction

Berlin officials announce the sale of wounded and disabled war dogs. Public interest appears limited despite attachment to the police dog breed as veterans go to market.

Berlin

Boy Holds Child Above Flood Five Hours Heroic Rescue

In San Antonio Texas a twelve year old Mexican boy clung to a tree for five hours as floodwaters raged above a five year old child. The rescuer was battered by wreckage and taken to a hospital unconscious. The child was unharmed.

San Antonio Tex

Nature's way with pests in the chain of life

The article describes a cycle where predators like ichneumon flies birds foxes and hawks regulate pest species such as caterpillars moths and beetles. It argues that each creature, though a pest in some contexts, performs useful ecological work and must be kept in balance by man and natural predators.

Jack Ehlett

Paris Doctor Reports Cure of Hemophilia Patient

Dr. P Emile Weil of Paris reports success with a treatment using horse serum injections for hemophilia. A seven year old bleeder from a classic family received 15 injections and has shown no recurrence of bleeding for seven years. Previous seven cases also recovered, suggesting possible cure.

P. Emile Weil Paris Societe Medicale Des Hopitaux Weil

First Magic Lantern Ploys in Early Public Folly

In 1646 Athanasius Kircher announced an instrument to cast drawings onto a screen. Although science did not impress, traveling magicians spread copies of the lantern and to attracted peasants with pictures of devils and purgatory, earning money by promising to ward off evil spirits.

Athanasius Kircher Kircher

Harum-Scarum Word Origins in English Usage

A discussion traces harum scarum to hare and scare with possible roots in Locke and Washington Irving. The piece notes Americanization through Irving's Alhambra and cites examples of wild reckless behavior described as harum scarum.

Locke

Blithersby Sentenced to Time in Model Penitentiary

A rough exchange implies Blithersby has been sent to prison. The line suggests he is serving time in a modern penitentiary rather than dying. The dialogue frames his fate as punishment rather than death.

Ancient Nineveh ledgers reveal city accounts on tablets

A Louisville Courier-Journal item notes accounts kept in ancient Nineveh on city tablets. It references Al as the original loose-leaf ledger, highlighting archival accounting practices and historical record keeping.

Nineveh Louisville Courier-Journal

Hermit Aunt Betty Elliott Lived Ninety Years in Missouri

Ninety year old Aunt Betty Elliott, who never rode a railway or visited a town larger than Moberty, Huntsville, or Micon, died at her sister's home near Jacksonville Missouri. She and her brothers Perry and Jordan Elliott farmed the old Homestead, kept to primitive living, avoided schools, and amassed about 2000 acres with coal beds beneath. They valued simplicity, honesty, and work, never quarrelled, never owned a dog, never belonged to a church, and kept ledgers with pins and shingles.

Macon Missouri Moberty Huntsville Micon Betty” Elliott B. Tice Jacksonville Miss Elliot Perry Jordan Ellie William Wiliot Kentucky Clldren College Menin Elliot Brothers Betsy Missou Marriag Betty

Bahamas Census Shows Population Decline in Ten Years

Nassau census reports 55 044 residents, down 2 913 since 1911 by 5 2 percent. Decline attributed to emigration to Florida. Bimini up 14 to 610 residents after liquor era links.

Nassau Bahamas Baha Islands Atlantic Florida United States Bimini Islands

Bears Twenty Second Child Born in Omaha Home

Mrs. Earl M. Rowray, 41, delivered her twelfth child in Omaha Nebraska. She married at 14 and became a mother at 17, has been wed twice. her first husband fathered twenty children, died four years ago, and she then married a man twenty years younger.

Omaha Neb Earl M. Rowray Rowray

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