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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1919
Page
2
Daily Herald by mail in advance lists one year rate and four month and six month options. Single copies and cards of thanks are priced, obituaries charged per line and per obituary, poetry lines carry a small extra fee.
Auction notices list lot sales from a 6 year old seller north of Greencastle and southwest of Bainbridge. Horses including brood mares and a yearling colt, two black mule pairs, hogs totaling 7 pure Hampshire sows and 25 market hogs, 14 shoats, a dairy herd of 13 Jersey cows with two young heifers and a bull, 69 acres of corn, and various implements. Terms require $10 cash, nine months credit at 6 percent, 1 percent discount for cash. Rector and Sherrill, Auctioneers.
Friday and Saturday special prices announced with limited terms. Shop early for discounted items and door offers while supplies last.
McNatt reports a vivid scene from the front where two wounded Red Cross bearers carry a fallen comrade under heavy fire. Despite machine guns and lethal odds they stagger toward safety, one man collapsing, the other slowly lifting him and continuing. The moment ends with a red cross bulletin signaling mercy amid devastation.
The New York Evening Telegram profiles a woman praised for multiple roles from financier and horticulturist to manufacturer and diplomat. It highlights her leadership at home and in "the gates" with a sense of national service and influence within club life.
Engineers develop an asbestos and cement material for roofing to replace corrugated iron. The process blends one part fine asbestos with six parts Portland cement, adds water to form sheets, rolls them, corrugates, and seasons the sheets. Asbestos strengthens the final product.
Economists report wages rising faster than living costs yet social interest fades. The average housewife now prefers reading recipes for new fat substitutes over the saddest love tale.
Careful observers recount animal vengeance tales from dogs to elephants. A mastiff killed a man who struck it with cold water, a fox terrier pair saw one die in a badger encounter while the survivor mourned, and an Indian elephant reportedly discarded a disliked man into a thorn tree. The Philadelphia mint meanwhile reports 38,931000 pennies struck in July along with 90,000 dimes and 226,000 nickels.
Notice states Lacy Stoner departing for Mississippi and an auction at the I. W. Stoner farm in Green County, three miles southwest, within sixty days.
Auction shows sixty pure bred Duroc hogs including 15 sows and pigs and 20 yearling gifts ready to breed by spring plus forty head of sheep with 25 black faced ewes 12 ewe lambs and 12 Shropshire bucks. Native stock advertised.
John W. Stoner and Lacy S. Stoner advertise farm loans with no commissions no stock subscriptions or assessments for loan defaults. They promise to pay interest on surplus funds and invite readers to see them before arranging long term farm financing.
SAL Peer announces a public sale one and a half miles east of Greencastle featuring ten head of good milk cows some with calves others fresh, yearling heifer cream separator, a 12 year old mare, a six year old horse serviceably sound, farm wagon hay frame gravelable set work harness set, buggy harness, buggy and extensive household furniture and items too numerous to mention.
Paul Albin of Rector Dobbs and Vestal conducts and Warren Newgent serves as clerk. Concurrently Harry W. Moore will offer ten good milk cows at the same time and place.
The federal board for vocational education pursued contact with discharged service members to identify those needing retraining. Representatives visited hospitals camps ports and transports registering thousands as potential reeducation candidates. Individual assessments determine fit to handicaps guiding future employment. many cases are closed as ineligible while others await central office decisions or enroll in schools this fall.
A historical note explains that seeds for Douglas fir, pine, and spruce restocking are gathered not by weight but by the tom. Fall crews including bomber jacks and students assemble at the work shop to collect cones while squirrels hoard the richest stores, a cunning strategy aiding national reforestation.
Suzanne Lengren, described as a world tennis champion, chats with American reporters at Wimbledon. She says tennis is nicer and golf is queer, arguing golf encourages cheating, while recounting a German joke about taking strokes and a father’s remark.
In a garbled account of a meeting with Theodore Roosevelt, Newt requests the President inspect thousands of letters urging action. Roosevelt dismisses the plea with a sharp retort that a petition from his critic’s state would not sway him, calling the idea impractical.
A young man and a Hoosier girl strike up a balcony conversation after a social event. The girl seeks a divorce on the grounds of desertion, while the husband defends himself noting she once threw utensils at him. The judge calls the conduct reprehensible as the husband deserted under fire.
Reports from Cross Lake, eighty miles north of Winnipeg, say influenza has nearly eliminated the In Man population in the district. No physicians are nearby to provide aid.
Random captions and captions rattle with sketches and jokes about diets gossip dress and marriage in a lively 1920s humor column. Jests feature characters like Mrs Gusley Stella Ella and Millie with light saucy banter and cartoon captions.
Fragmentary dialogue shows Mrs Neurite and a Stlestian arguing over buying a pair of items. The text is garbled with misspellings and unclear references, making the exact objects and context difficult to determine.
An unusual advert draws crowds as a Frenchman mourns a phonograph housed in a case resembling a camera. Harry claps as singing occurs. Sequences reference ears and questions about residence, noting Joe still boarding at St Sime House.
A garbled OCR style snippet mentions a Jazz Headline and Hub Solun pact with unclear quotes. It reads like fragmented dialogue about confirmation and a wife questioning a term, reflecting misread newspaper header and caption artifacts.
The article reflects on Knicker-Roston once a lively mind stage, now reduced to a calm state of not mitral, indicating a shift from bustle to stillness in the community.
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