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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1920
Page
4
A mother questions whether parental faults or upbringing shape children more, noting evolving science from strict heredity to environment. It concludes that character forms after birth through training, urging parents to provide care and early correction to temper will and behavior.
Harper's Weekly argues for reasonable physical exercise for sedentary people and even women. It recommends playful activities such as swimming, brisk walks, squash, tennis, or handball over hard training. Benefits include improved mood, mind, and body with enjoyable activity.
The speaker argues war tears bring poverty to formerly well off people in England. Parents cannot guarantee their children’s futures, so the best insurance is to teach them to work. Cultivating soil is presented as the most permanent and universal trade for youth.
When garments turn yellow with age their white is restored by boiling in a lather of milk and white soap. After boiling the item should be rinsed twice with clean water.
The article describes methods to steer large ships in narrow channels using transverse water tubes with propeller wheels and multiple extra propeller systems. It highlights four additional wheels in end recesses that can move and operate together, with forward and rear wheels potentially reversing to aid turning.
I BR Goldman of Hope Arkansas notes timber scarce for wine cask staves affects two continents and the wine drinking world. He says Arkansas supplies most suitable timber with parts from Louisiana Texas Alabama and Tennessee and that demand grows as prices rise. Most staves go to Barcelona Spain for European and American wine industry use and no substitute has proven viable.
The text traces flag colors to Castile and Aragon red and yellow, Austrian black and yellow from Rome, and a legend of Frederick Barbarossa. It notes the crescent's origin with Constantinople, its display in Moscow churches, and its association with Byzantine and Russian traditions.
A concise exploration of the heart’s refractory phase and all or none response. It notes the heart rests between beats, resisting stimuli during contraction, and how it reacts fully to any signal. The piece contrasts scientific progress with enduring awe and wonder at physiology.
Mrs Compton hides to shield Ethel at Miss Rensaler’s school while recounting a letter from Ethel who fabricates a boyfriend story to avoid expulsion. The two women discuss the scheme as the hiding grows and Easter nears.
Frank Wood of Wordsley England completed what he believes is a record in microscopic handwriting. He filled about three newspaper columns on a regulation postcard using a mapping pen in twenty hours writing 4 776 words at roughly 30 words per line and 23 lines per inch.
London Tit-Bits recounts two incidents of extremely overweight individuals. Signon Lablanche, a famed basso, becomes trapped when the four wheeler fails his weight causing the seat to fail and his fall to the road. The Pope brothers, over forty stone combined, see the cab floor collapse on Waterloo Bridge as bystanders watch the awkward extraction.
The Legion of Honor, established May 19 1892 by Napoleon as a reward for merit, began with 1802 decorations for consular officers. It has grades from grand crosses to legionaries and has continued through Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis Philippe, Napoleon III, and the republics. Foreigners including Americans and British subjects have received its honors.
The essay reflects on human fear of storms versus actual lightning deaths. It cites Lichtenberg noting dysentery deaths in Gottingen dwarfed by past lightning tolls and imagines how lightning fear would loom if outbreaks resembled a dark cloud causing sudden thunderous strikes.
Arctic explorer W. J. Bower reports discovering a tribe named Nunacaptica living on a point of Prince Albert Land. They welcomed him and provided sick furs. He then found copper deposits further north, lost an eye to a spider bite, and after crude Eskimo surgery the schooner wrecked. The party walked 130 miles to Point Barrow and were taken aboard the whaler Jeannette.
The Cali fornia crew celebrate reaching port after capturing a whale and discovering ambergris worth $1,000. With no harpoon aboard they improvise a weapon from a poker and finally harpoon the whale from the stern. A playful whale tailing the ship prompts a quarrel over spoils as ambergris is retrieved.
A housewife, wary after rough treatment by a servant, asked the applicant’s former employer for a clear audit of honesty before filling a vacancy. The employer replied, “Lo believe Mollie to be thoroughly honest,” adding she had never taken anything or even followed orders poorly.
A terse observation notes that some of the best pupils of the world study and excel outside church walls, suggesting secular or diverse learning environments foster achievement.
London women move away from bobbing as the fad fades and rush hairdressers to replace shorn tresses. Rich auburn or white locks fetch 12 to 15 dollars, while many seek to match lengths and colors, reflecting irony over earlier purchases and current demand.
The article notes unusual baby names tied to precious gems and flowers. It mentions Lord Baward Churchill’s daughters Ruby and Beryl, Miss Pearl Finch, Miss Frances Wilseley heiress of Lord Wolseley, Garnet, and the new Lady Hardinge whose husband becomes ambassador in St Petersburg, owning a baby named Diamond.
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