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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1919
Page
2
A garbled page segment presents scattered lines about revenue cuts and legal matters. Phrases include references to a doctor visit and a debate about scandalous content, with stray mentions of Archibald, Watt, and others in an informal, clipped voice.
In advance pricing for obituaries, fees apply at 1 dollar per obituary with an additional 5 cents per line for poetry. Orders placed by mail or carrier in city are processed within four months or less, at a weekly rate of 10 cents.
A fragmented humor page offers brief gags and cartoonish exchanges. Bit lines reference aviators, vacations, money lenders and a prison welfare worker, stringing playful quips on social satire and light slang.
A witty exchange highlights budgeting approaches as a young wife urges a plan and the other columnist reveals a system of paying what one can and owing the remainder. The dialogue reflects personal finance humor from a bygone era.
Washington reports the 1950 census will reveal shifts in population growth and composition. Expect changes in the center of population, urban migration, and the ratio of native to foreign born, with declines in foreign-born and Negro populations and more English speakers as a result of postwar trends.
El sie Wilson, 22, after a fourth failed attempt to reach the United States from England as a stowaway, cut her hair and wore sailor clothes to arrive in New York as a coal passer. She was arrested for disorderly conduct in Hoboken and arraigned, claiming hardship in England and begging not to be sent back. She remained in custody for federal authorities on landing without a passport charge.
Maryville report: F Williams and his two young daughters were nearby while he sawed a log on a hillside. A rolling log struck his daughter injuring her neck and mouth with a twig penetrating her neck and pinning her to the ground. She faces possible surgery but is expected to recover. the other daughter sustained minor injuries.
Official figures for the Paris district show 43,480 births in 1918 versus 73,599 in 1911, with infant mortality near 40 percent. Shortages of wet nurses and milk, tied to Normandy cheese production, are blamed though Paris hospitals report month to month increases and larger healthier babies. A new periodical Marriage seeks solutions to repopulate France amid the crisis.
Captain Bertram Hayes of the Uner Olympic has returned to his farm for a first wartime vacation. He earned the D. C. by the king of Great Britain for sinking a German submarine and is pictured relaxing after years of ocean service and war relief work.
A jumble of aphorisms and scattered data notes touching language, economics, biology, geography, and industry. It cites London costs, spider web production, ship wear, German demographics, Corded trade, and farm outputs from the Union of South Africa.
London reports efforts to restore global cable networks to prewar levels. Five Allied cables cut at war start are being repaired along with four links between England and Belgium. Communication with Teeland has resumed and messages to Australia now travel in hours rather than days. European continental links are improving steadily.
A theatergoing observer recalls a stalled finale where a hero hesitates while holding the heroine and bursts into a loud command before the kiss. The moment ruins the witness’s enjoyment of the performance.
In Grase Valley California a mountain lion raided a sheep corral for the third time in days. Five rams over 900 pounds each were killed, two valued at 80 dollars dragged over 300 yards. Earlier raids killed thirty four sheep.
A Trenton woman laments to an Irish domestic that notes and cards should be handed on salyver. Maggie replies she did not know her employer demanded it, highlighting a clash of expectations in domestic service.
Reports from Alaska indicate a widespread salmon shortage as several major canneries halt operations due to scant catches. Some facilities with high capacity have barely fished, and others show near empty results, signaling the leanest season in years and a contraction in salmon supply.
A compilation of garbled aphorisms and stray phrases from various sources. It includes misquoted maxims about speech and silence, references to Russia and Greenland, and mentions of glycerin stains and garters. The text reads like fragmented notes with no clear narrative or reportable event.
A report describes a tunneling operation on Pours street tube under the East River in York. The crew faced a thin rock shell and used staged blasting to install cast iron linings without breaching the rock, dropping four feet to pass the thin layer.
A San Rafael mass meeting outlines steps to realize a California project the Golden Gate Bridge. Surveys indicate a direct route over Golden Gate Straits from Fort Baker to the Mason side, spanning about 5 500 feet with rock supports for a central span. A San Francisco banker proposes to finance the project with a 10 000 000 loan, contingent on a franchise grant and toll authority.
A man returns after four years and finds the village unchanged except for a missing windmill. He recalls a pair once stood by Hodge’s windmill and notes one was removed, remarking the wind would not support two. The scene shifts to villagers and a quiet, repetitive town life.
A World War veteran fielding questions reveals service time details with humor. He lists France for nine months, Germany for two, and the Atlantic Ocean for one month, indicating a conversational anecdote from recent events.
A friend muses that Jones is versatile likening him to a bookcase that becomes a folding bed at night. The remark highlights Jones as adaptable and resourceful in daily life.
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