Special Prices for Wet Goods and Pantry Staples
Pantry sale lists bargain prices including 2 for offers on Cocoa Oats Corn Flakes and Toilet Soap Palmolive. Includes general notes on beverages and desserts with limited readable details.
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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1919
Page
2
Telephon Subscription Rates and Obituary Charges Notice
The notice lists subscription rates by mail and carrier with terms for daily, weekly, and annual plans. It states obituaries are charged at one dollar per obituary with a line charge and mentions an additional poetry line fee. It reflects a historic newspaper misc text with pricing and service notes.
Ancient Stone Ruins Puzzle On Caroline Islands
Ancient ruins in Ponape Yap and surrounding Caroline Islands hint at prehistoric civilization. Megalithic blocks and stone terraces suggest advanced work before current populations. Stone money and trade disks show an early banking system, with shells later replacing them. The article notes limited European contact and the islands’ vast reach near the Philippines and New Guinea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline Islands
Japan
Germany
Pacific
Ponape Sn Island
Yap
Ponape
Venice
Ente Land City
Stady
Carolinas
Caroline
Vap
Kusale
Mogoly
Truk
Palippines
Sheuf
New Gelen
Builetin
Princess Ola Humphrey Wins Million From Egyptian Prince
Ola Humphrey, once a California actress and wife of Elwin Mordant, receives a million from the seized wealth of Ibrahim Hassan, Ottoman prince and former Egyptian khedive ally. British government responds to her suit, while Ola recalls a marriage she calls a losing game and vows to avoid oriental spouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ola Humphrey
Process Ibrahim Passar
Advses Gris
Prince
Mics Oa
Howphres
California
Ibrahien Hassan
Great Britain
Ibrahim Hessen
Egypt
Ols Humphrey
Miss Ola
Oakland
Cal
Thomas Marshall Humphrey
Zenda
Elwin Mordant
Marningé
Ottoman Empire
Germany
Ibrahim Hasean
Uene
Beitish
Humphrey
Britain offers £64000 prizes for air plane competition
Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Seely announced in the house of commons that the air ministry will award £64,000 in prizes across three classes small planes large planes and seaplanes to further development of aircraft types. Airplanes used as hearses in Canada carries the body of Leonard Allen from his home to the cemetery in a Curtiss plane with a clergyman following in a second plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. B. Seely
Air Ministry
House of Commons
Canada
Leonard Allen
Toronto
Can
Jailbreak frees Colusa double entrpry suspects
Tired of jail Thomas Martin and Otto Cote fashioned a key from a prison spoon and unlocked the jail door at Colusa California. They escaped and went free. They had been charged with stealing a automobile. The spoon was pliable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Martin
Otto Cote
Colusa
Cal
Jacksons push to place the Treasury on a decisive site
President Andrew Jackson pressed Congress to build a federal treasury in a grand Grecian style. He hastened a treasury site decision, inviting commission members to a White House tour, where he famously struck the commission chair with his walking stick and urged a quick start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Jackmo
United States
Treasury
Jackson
Wilte House
Tyre
Neighborly Exchange Over a Page of News
A man and his neighbor dispute over a page from the over Indianpolis News. She asks for a favor while sprinkling the yard. he slowly agrees, offering the whole paper to her in a comical miscommunication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis News
Public Auction at Hawkins Farm near Green Castle
A public sale by auction will be held at the Hawkins farm situated on the cemetery road one mile south of Green Castle. Details are sparse in the notice but indicate property will be offered to the highest bidder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkins
Cemetetry Road
Greencastle
Farm sale catalog lists livestock and farm goods
On Tuesday October 14 at 10 a.m. a sale offers a variety of animals including a 6 year old gelding, a 12 year old family horse, multiple mares and stallions, work mules, heifers, Hereford cattle, Duroc hogs with sows and pigs, plus Poland and other pigs, sheep, and a large array of farm implements and wood. Terms provide nine month credit on sums over five dollars with 6 percent interest, 8 percent if delinquent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Auctioneers List Locust Street Church Dinner
C A Kelley and Forrest M Cooper are named as auctioneers Col Dobbs and Vestal Sherrill and Rector. Dinner will be served by the Ladies of the Locust Street Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cols. Dobbs & Vestal, Sherrill and Rector
Crown Jewels in America Rumors Spark Smuggling Alarm
Rumors claim European crown jewels are being smuggled into the United States and sold secretly. New York port authorities have nearly doubled the staff to combat jewel smugglers, with large diamonds reportedly sold to wealthy families while origin and proof remain unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
New York
America
Custom House
Ebread
Secret Service
Orloff
Prince Orloff
Russia
Germany
Austria
Hesse Darmstadt
Holland
Kaiser Karl
Switzerland
Early Iceland Settlement Story of Norse Explorers
A simplified historical account describes Viking sailors reaching Iceland about 1100 years ago after a storm. It notes Floki's expedition from Norway, his failures, and Haraldr's rise to kingship leading to migrations from Norway to Scotland Ireland the Hebrides Orkney and Shetland and Iceland marking Iceland’s settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iceland
America
Floki
Norway
Fleki
Haraldr
Scotland
Ireland
Hebbdes
Orkney and Sheth Islands
First Choice Girl Tours Indianapolis With Uncle
An eight year old from the state travels with her uncle to Indianapolis. In a friend’s office she is asked what she wants to see most the state house or the monument. She replies she wants both but would most like an ice cream sandwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice
Settern
Indianapolis
State House
Indianapolis News
Painter's mishap as cow bolts ladder in Minnesota
A painter on a water tank at Bubl Minnesota warned of disaster when a cow scratched her back against the ladder. The cow bolted with a loaded ladder and painter in tow, galloping a quarter mile before the rider and painter were uninjured on impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bubl
Minn
The Coming Crisis in Government Spending
A congressman condemns government extravagance and rising taxes. He argues officials tell Americans to cough up funds while public coffers run dry.
Relic of Revolt in Old Poston Statehouse
The 1712 statehouse in Poston served as merchant exchange and meeting place for provincial and royal council leaders. Washington reviewed its procession in his era, 1835 saw Garr shelter from a mob, and later it became offices. Restored in 1881, it now houses relics and paintings of revolutionary times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poston
Royal Council
Boston
Washington
William Liesd Garr
Council Chamber
Ain of Representatives
Best Boy Hires Whisky To Float Secret Fishing Gear
A boy seeks a bottle of whisky for his father, who pretends to be a teetotaler. The shopkeeper questions the request and learns the father intends to use it to fish, as a float, revealing a humorous deception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Simmons
Bolshevik Dinner Quip on Decollete Gowns
A satirical exchange at a Was ton dinner mocks Bolshevik fervor over fashion. Senator Johnson of California notes that the Bolsheviks would hardly find items to sell at a fashionable American dinner party as ladies wear low neckline gowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Johnson
Californ
Spoiling Her Case at the Classroom
A playful classroom scene shows a teacher prompting students about a trunk as the bed’s middle part. One boy objects, while another, Tay, confesses his misreading and hints at wanting to go to the circus to see the elephant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citrcus
Two-Hearted Driver Battles Rain for Wife Rescue
In a rural stretch the flivver ran dry as rain deluged sheets. A man abandoned his stranded wife in a muddy lane and sprinted toward a nearby house with an undersized umbrella as another motorist halted briefly before speeding on.
The Velvet Dress Reproof In A Lesson Of Fashion
A young businesswoman with scorn for idle friends tells a velvet wearing anecdote. She cites her own velvet dress as a warning that velvet wears well only if it is well cared for and not worn by poor sitters, lest it become slick and shiny.
Absent-minded Professor Pate Misplaces Letter
The Kansas City Star quotes Professor Pate exclaiming his absent mindedness as he searches for a letter, humorously noting he might misplace Pike's Peak in his pocket. His affliction and the joking dialogue with Mr Naybur illustrate comic moment.
Great Convenience in Crockery Dilemma
Mrs Flat complains of broken crockery with no disposal option. Mr Flatdweller proposes an odd solution to put them in the parents post and mail to a fictitious progress in the first period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Flatdweller
Mr. Flatdweller
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National Film Company Presents
Mr and
Mrs Carter DeHaven
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