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Newspaper

Greencastle Herald

Location

Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Oct 17, 1913

Page

4

Met Opera Cast Presents One Act Comic Grand Opera

Antonio Pini Corsi of the Metropolitan Opera New York appears in Il Mastro di Capella with Louise Cox Atilio di Crescenzo and Oscar Spirescu in Meharry Hall DePauw tonight. The light opera follows Gertrude the cook and Barnaba as they perform and rehearse, ending in a duet.

Meharry Hall Sig Antonio Pini-Corsi Metropolitan Opera Company New York Ceoeay Louise Cox Atilio di Crescenzo Oscar Spirescu Ferdinand Paer

Parisians Dine On Ostrich Eggs And Jungle Meats

Paris hosts a remarkable Zoological Society dinner with an ostrich egg omelet followed by python and boa constrictor courses and gazelle, porcupine, crow, and cactus desserts. Promoters tout cultivating wild animals for food to replace common meats. guests praise the python and porcupine flavors while some balk at boa constrictor and crow.

Paris Zoological Society Africa

Airspeed limits for airships: Prof Haskinson on 315 mph ceiling

Carnegie Technical Schools expert Prof Martin Haskinson discusses Curtiss's flight prize and the potential speed and weight ratios for future airships. He estimates a practical ceiling near 315 mph and notes freight carrying remains unlikely at such scales.

Pittsburg Martin Haskinson Carnegie Technical Schools Curtiss Curtise

Safe to Hold Radium by Chubb for British Radium Corp

London reports describe a new safe by the Chubb Company designed to resist burglary and prevent radium escape. The inner lead coffer is three inches thick within a burglar proof steel shell and includes a means to collect emanations. It can hold about one hundred pounds of radium valued at five billion dollars.

London Chubb Company British Radium Corporation

Classified notices seek housing loan work and labor

Want add column for rent good eight room house near college with city water and electric lights suitable for two families call phone 572. Money to loan on chattel mortgage no red tape Sam Purcell in office with W H Cullen. WANTED a local married lady to collect subscription accounts promote clubs with liberal commissions. Write D C Cook Co 532 Lemcke Bldg Indianapolis Ind. MEN WANTED flour and grocery items with set prices and quantities. WANTED chicken pickers women and girls to dress poultry steady employment Greencastle Produce Co North Jackson St.

Morteage Sam Purcel W. H. H Cullen D. C. Cook Co Lemcke Bldg Indianapolis Ind Greencastle Produce Company North Jackson Street

Stanford Graduation Address Downplays Harriman Name

President David Starr Jordan told the Stanford graduating class that Harriman's name will fade from history while Newcomb's will stand larger among those who broaden the world. He added that the Rockefeller name will not evoke Standard Oil and praised the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as a wise use of wealth.

Palo Alto David Starr Jordan Stanford University Harriman Newcomb Rockefeller Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research

Blunston oak fall recalls 1777 Continental march

Historic Blunston oak in Darby Pennsylvania toppled after centuries of storms. The site recalls Washington and 16 000 Continental troops moving toward Chadds Ford in August 1777. The piece also notes grim ghouls in Canton and a bizarre eye injury in Richmond Indiana.

Philadelphia Darby Washington Chadd's Ford

Bonds Hidden By Dead Man Spark Long Congressional Claim

Heirs of J. Calvin Kinney of Lima Indiana press Congress to reimburse $42,000 in unregistered government bonds found by heirs after being concealed by Kinney. The search through La Grange county farms failed to locate the buried bonds and involved neighbors and friends in a long mystery dating back to 1883.

Washington Lord Nelson Lake Ontario Committee On Claims House George W. Prince Illinois J. Calvin Kinney Lima Ind la Grange County Kinney Mr. Nichols Lima State Bank Tima Nichols Congress

Oldest cotton bale sells for record 16 cents a pound

In Jackson Georgia a 1872 bale of cotton, ginmed by water power, waited 38 years to fetch 16 cents per pound. Farmer T H Greer refused earlier offers, kept the bale at home, and finally accepted the price after decades. Weighing 505 pounds, the bale has rarely been repacked and remains in excellent condition.

Jackson T. H. Greer

Wellesley Vows Gym Course To Shape Freshmen

Wellesley College plans to require all freshmen and sophomores to take a gymnasium course starting next fall. The policy, backed by Miss Holtman, aims to ensure students pass a fitness standard essential for diploma points, shaping the brand of womanhood graduates will present to society.

Wellesley Wellesley College Holtman

Sunday school loss rate shocks observers worldwide

Eugene Foster of Detroit cites that seventy five percent of Protestant Sunday school boys over 13 never profess faith, a figure met with disbelief by Sun day school workers at the World Sunday School Convention. An English delegate calls the system radically wrong, noting England loses about three percent. Foster asserts the calculation is based on study and experience.

Washington United States Eugene ©. Foster Detroit Haverhill Suffolk England Foster

Writing of Christ Found in Vienna Bazaar

An autograph message claimed to be from Jesus Christ was found in a Vienna bric a brac shop by a respected Jewish citizen. The Hebrew manuscript is said to be genuine after expert examination and will be shown to scholars across Europe. The original rests in a Vienna bank.

Vienna Austria Europe

For Sale Items Listed at 408 North Indiana Street

One cook stove in good condition priced at 54 dollars a quartered sawed oak lining table and one hot blast heating stove advertised. Located at 408 North Indiana Street, George Cotton Ed.

Indiana Street George Cotton

Public Farm Sale Near Belle Union Broadpark

Public sale on Tuesday October 21 at 10 o clock at my farm 2 miles northeast of Belle Union and miles west of Broadpark features cattle sixty five head including yearling heifers steer calves and heifer calves Jersey heifers bred sows hogs fifty feeding hogs weighing around 140 pounds ten tons baled straw one rubber tired wagon one wheel tread speed cart a J I Case plow and other farming implements.

Belle Union Broadpark Jeas J. I

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