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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1920
Page
4
A university professor reports that odor diffusion through air is slower than expected, with ammonia taking about an hour and a half to traverse a four foot tube. He notes differences in ascent versus descent for camphor, and discusses how birds locating carrion use faint rising currents.
In a beef and sheep killing plant at the stockyards workers gathered around a piano and sang ragtime while butchers and plant staff observed a surprising rise in efficiency. The superintendent credited music with freshening workers, boosting energy, and improving workmanship by about 20 percent.
A playful exchange shows a suitor and a trader discussing travel plans and preferences. The Rover asks about fears of driving while expressing readiness to go anywhere, and Po B prefers roads over other options.
Skeletons of three Indians excavated on a local farm by Warren K Moorehead of Philips Andover Academy reveal one over six feet tall, one of medium height, and a boy aged ten to twelve. The remains likely predate European contact and lie on their right sides facing east.
Interchurch World Movement reports a practice in India where opium placed under a baby's thumbnail subdues crying to enable mothers to work. The habit risks health as babies sleep through the day, prompting a missionary wife to open a baby clinic teaching care and prevention.
In Durham North Carolina farmer John King found two cows in a pasture lying in a stupor. A veterinarian ruled them drunk and a search uncovered a moonshine still in a secluded corner where the animals had fed on mash from illicit whisky makers.
Chicago judge Frank Johnston Jr says he was fed up yet he streamlined the calendar by classifying divorce cases into four groups: Desertion, Cruelty, Misconduct, and Annulments. He notes men often cause distress and that many wives welcomed divorce after husbands left.
New York State purchased two and a quarter grains of radium, the largest such deal, funded by a 275000 appropriation by the 1920 Legislature. The radium will aid research at the New York State Institute for Malignant Disease in Buffalo under Dr H R Gaylord and staff. The ore originated from the Colorado desert and was refined from carnetite ore to the final quantity.
In Greenwicil Conn residents mourn a halted funeral when prohibition agents order the hearse to stop during a Seymour route. A man in rival robes protests while officers seize a corpse and whisky, leading to both men being arrested.
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