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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1920
Page
2
The Greencastle Herald prints daily except Sundays from 17 and 198 Jackson Street. Obituaries cost 1 dollar each with an extra 5 cent per line for poetry. Cards of thanks are charged at a defined rate.
The article lists state executive and legal officers including Governor Carleton B. McCulloch and Lieutenant Governor Samuel M. Foster along with Auditor Charles R. Hughes Treasurer George H. De Hourt y Attorney General George D. Sunkel and Judge Elbert M. Swain of the First District Appellate Court and Elbet M Swain.
The piece outlines political jabs in Indiana remarks, including Mrs. New's critique of the League of Nations and attacks on Warren T. McCray and Warren G. Harding as the 1920 Republican contest unfolds. It notes Cox's stance on veterans' pay and endorses the fourfold Lerion readjusted compensation plan.
Durham North Carolina farmer discovers two cows lying in a pasture in a stupor after eating moonshine mash. A veterinarian calls them "beastly" drunk and a large illicit whisky still is found in a secluded corner of the field where the mash was produced.
At the beef and sheep plant in the stockyards workers mix music with work as a piano in the slaughterhouse inspires singing and dancing among immigrant staff. A supervisor cites improved productivity and morale, noting ragtime and Slavic folk dancing lift spirits and cooperation.
Skeletons of three Indians aged about ten to twelve and two adults were unearthed on a Deerfield farm by Warren Moorehead curator of Philips Andover Academy. The bones suggest pre colonial burial, with bodies buried on their right sides facing east.
A dramatic remark hints the speaker will marry widow Jones, claiming she drove her late husband to ruin. The comment frames the remarriage as a response to a provocative inducement and echoes a frontier humor tone.
A quirky query explains why some necklaces are nicknamed dog collars. The term evokes a snug choker like style that can sound harsh when the price or bill arrives, and the phrase suggests the necklace’s fastening fastens tightly with a sharp snap.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a convict blaming a banana skin for his downfall as he recalls being caught by a cop while fleeing. A young girl references a military ball and asks about attending one, while a one armed figure indicates a distant memory of such an event.
W N Cruchon of Seattle invents and patents an automatic feathering paddle wheel for steamboats with an automatic tilting mechanism. Buckets enter and leave water with minimal resistance, concave shapes improve propulsion, and edgewise entry reduces power loss from water impact.
A group of men share aversions to injuries and medical tales. One fears wrist injuries most, another trims at eye disease, and others react to shocks, skull fractures, or appendicitis operations. The big man concedes he is not a big baby after all.
A fragment shows Miss Byers asking about prices and Miss Sellers naming prices. Miss Byers counters with seventy five cents, and Miss Sellers agrees at forty two cents.
Fragmented lines describe a jaunty scene with a woman from Wheel ing and a punning stumble about a cucumber fed diet. A playful exclamation about discovering the North Pole closes the brief excerpt from the column.
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