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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1920
Page
4
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a blood medicine and stomach alterative that clears the skin and beautifies a complexion. It claims pimples boils and eruptions vanish and offers trial tablets by mail from Buffalo New York.
Hog supply around 7200 faced a slight price advance then a dull close. Top hogs fetched 16.15 dollars, mediums around 16.00, lights 15.75 to 15.85, pigs to 15.65, sows 14.50, cattle weak, calves down over a dollar with best veals at 16.50, and sheep and lambs steady with top lambs at 11.00.
Miss Muriel Rector daughter of Mr and Mrs O B Rector and Howard Rockhill son of Mr and Mrs Frampton Rockhill both of this city were married Wednesday evening at the Christian Church Parsonage. Rev Levi Marshall officiated in the presence of immediate family before the couple left for a short wedding trip.
In Columbus Indiana a Greencastle bank bookkeeper who became assistant cashier is highlighted. A surprise birthday dinner for Mr. Clippinger involves Indianapolis visitors and guests including Miss Iva Holliday. The Red Man Lodge plans an old time dance with good music. Mrs. Morris Goodwin visits from Fillmore and the Presbyterian church holds a 7:30 prayer meeting tonight.
A playful exchange in New England sets a dramatic engagement scene as a lover promises marriage on one condition to restore a kicked rug corner, turning a domestic quarrel into a public vow. The quirky ultimatum frames a lighthearted courtship moment.
A newspaper correspondent reports Sebastopol in dire straits with 24 billion rubles in circulation but no real money to spend. Harbor idle, docks crowded with warships, coal shortages halt streetcars, stores lack stocks, and streets are deserted aside from a few soldiers and patrols. Beaches host only bathers as officials publish bleak front-line bulletins.
A fragment describes a mixed-race individual lamenting lack of opportunity for a Black person to perform. The speaker insists he is not white and thus cannot present a show, reflecting themes of identity and exclusion in a public spectacle.
A young helper recounts carrying the manager’s grips from the station, boot-polishing and errands for six hours at the circus. He earned a ticket for “smothin” as reward and hopes for an easier path after tonight’s show.
The Theban Memnon statue allegedly sang at dawn due to water-filled cracks forming a quivering resonance. Ancient writers pondered the melody while earthquakes and alterations by rulers affected the statue’s sound. Severus reportedly closed the fissures to curb pagan cults as Christianity rose.
A new augar school in St Ghislatn Belgium offers a two year program leading to a diploma. The curriculum blends physics chemistry sugar ethnology and industrial factory studies with sugar legislation and cane sugar raising, targeting lucrative positions with European jarrealear manufacturers.
A new sanitary shaving mug features a double bottom and a liquid soap chamber between two shells. A thumb pressed plunger releases soap into the interior cup and rinsing restores the soap for future use.
Big railroads report powdered coal a success and economical. Finely powdered dry coal stored in receptacles is blown into the firebox by air jets like oil fuel. The powder becomes gas instantly, firebox temperature stays high, smoke is reduced, and fuel use plus labor costs are lowered.
Red lights are preferred for railway danger signals because they are visible from a greater distance. A standard red signal is effective to about three and a half miles, green reaches about three miles, while blue purple and yellow are limited to around a mile and prone to confusion.
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