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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1921
Page
1
A Travelers' Standard warning near Ithaca New York urges explicit caution at steep hills and railroad crossings. The notice stresses that novices should follow the explicit crossing advice to ensure safety.
An article advocates combining flowers with vegetables in the same plot. It notes dahlias and scarlet runner beans as compatible elements and suggests borders of soft fruits around beds. The ideal garden includes flowers, vegetables, and fruit with decorative borders.
The piece discusses Maine billboard regulations before the Senate. It advocates tighter rules to prevent signs obstructing curves or angles and favors moving toward restricting or abolishing billboards in rural areas. The author supports stronger statewide limits on outdoor advertising.
The Detroit News cites Haiti visitor J. Dryden Kuser detailing Haiti life and schooling with $6 table bargains and low teacher pay. He portrays voodoo practices, dance, glass cutting, coal burning, and initiatory rites under occult priestly influence.
The first twin grand piano, two grands in one frame with a single keyboard, was shown at a German orchestral concert. Photographs appear in Popular Mechanics. The instrument places ends of the keyboards opposite each other to separate sound waves.
Eleven year old Frank Fullerton of Pittsburgh confessed to setting a pile of timber outside a church to view the fire engines in action. He was tried in juvenile court.
North Dakota reports that seagulls in McLean county aided by destroying grasshoppers threaten to ruin crops. A Utah temple monument honors the birds that saved early settlers from famine in 1848.
The American Forestry Magazine of Washington states the best method for applying preservatives to timber is the pressure process. It forces oil or mineral salt deeply into wood tissues for thorough, lasting protection. The method uses large and costly equipment, with vacuums and heavy pressure in treating cylinders often six feet in diameter and over a hundred feet long.
Lavender, Sweet Lavender echoes through London streets from Huguenot origins on Lavender hill near Clapham Junction. The scent links centuries from Charing Cross to the Werredle valley where lavender grew famed for visitors to Mitehaim fair. New Mitelam faces threat as the last grower retires from breshwees.
A report by the American Engineering council links industrial blindness to eye accidents and promotes improved lighting and goggles. It notes 15,000 blind people due to accidents, reductions in big plants like 75 percent at American Car and Foundry, and shows gains from goggles at New York Central and Union Pacific.
Jack Humphrey a Treynor farmer set a record by smoking 55 cigars in 18 hours after betting $50. He claims a daily average of 25 cigars for 12 years, with a cigars per day bill of about $1.25 and a total expenditure of around $5,475 for the period. He spent three days in bed after completing the contest.
Detroit teen Tturr Roberts, eighteen, shot herself after her cousin Roy Fortner, thirty five, declined marriage due to Michigan law. The suicide follows her melancholy over the prohibition and unfulfilled love.
A Madras correspondent reports a cobra coiled by a thorn tree attacked by two green birds and a cat. The birds dive bombed the snake while the cat struck with claws, then the cobra retreated as the man fired a twelve bore to finish the foe.
Sam Moore of San Francisco claims a remarkable catch described as a fish with shark skin a sole mouth spike fins protruding from belly and back large salmon like eyes and no visible nostrils. The tale jars belief and invites photo proof as evidence.
Edward Pierson a 30 year old New York merchant pleaded guilty to shaking itching powder down a schoolboy's back. Frank Holbauer, aged 14, testified he squirmed as the powder touched him. The magistrate sentenced Pierson to 15 days in jail amid prior complaints of similar incidents in the streets.
During structural work at the White Lion Inn in Upholland England a hoard of gold and copper coins is found in a fireplace. Coins include a 1806 and an 1853 sovereign among various dates. A girl found the first piece and others were uncovered by digging in a rubbish heap. The origin of the hoard remains unknown.
Two two year old boys from Chicago discovered a package containing 3600 dollars lost by a bank messenger. They spent the fortune in a single day by sharing with friends and buying many goods for a boy's imagination.
Madge vows never to speak again, while Marie retorts with a sizzling quip about having nine lives in this terse exchange.
A terse exchange questions who called whom a liar. FE responds that Jim is not the liar, while Brown is pressed as the source of the accusation. The dialogue focuses on truthfulness and naming in a tense moment.
Flint Michigan resident W H Howd testifies Nerv Worth cured his nervous condition improving sleep and reducing stomach troubles after two bottles. He urged a neighbor with nervous headache to try it and praised quick results. R P Mullins sells Nerv Worth with money back guarantee at $1.00 per bottle.
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