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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1920
Page
2
Obituaries are charged at 1 dollar per notice with an additional 5 cents for a second line. The Herald lists charges for thanks notices and poems, noting Garda and Bleach wording as billable items.
Governor Carleton B McCulloch and Lieutenant Governor Samuel M Foster lead Indiana state government with Charles H Wagner Secretary of State and Charles R Hughes Auditor of State in Columbus Peru authority announcements.
A historical look at boom and bust schemes that promised instant fortunes. From gold rush fervor to Jernegan’s seawater gold and the Franklin Miller chain, promoters lured crowds with visions of wealth while many lost time and money.
Chadron Nebraska Frank E Foster is under arrest on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. He allegedly copied a $200 dividend check from a circular about a widowed investor and cashed it with a green teller after endorsing the facsimile.
The Monthly Weather Review features a Porto Bello Canal Zone downpour of two and a half inches in three minutes. The Weather Bureau cites the 1911 record as still the data benchmark for extreme rainfall and rainfall history across the United States.
The Tyrol government bans further issue of communal fractional currency after a scandal shows none notes circulated, sold to collectors for large profits. Notes of ten and twenty dollars fetched up to 0 to 100 crowns. The craze extends to various groups including Gottwelg monastery and an anti Semitic association of Amstelien.
Carol M Hart ten year old daughter of Mr and Mrs W B Hart of this village is perhaps the youngest in Michigan to pass the eighth grade exams She is in seventh grade but qualified for tests through special tuition from her father former school superintendent Her brother three years older also passed ranking second among Macomb county students who passed
Naval experts describe radio direction finders as a decisive aid for navigation in fog and bad weather. A ship can request its bearings by sending a brief wireless query, with data from at least two listening stations confirming its position.
In Bowling Green Kentucky Robert Fulton an all well driller working for a Cincinnati company was ordered to abandon a dry well. He insisted on going two feet further. At the second foot oil was struck and a resulting fire burned him to death.
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