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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1919
Page
2
The Daily Herald by mail offers advance rates with four months or longer options and a weekly rate for in city carriage. Cards of Thanks are 50 cents each with obituaries at one dollar each plus five cents per line for poetry.
Central Trust Company advertises long term farm loans with no commissions no stock subscriptions and no assessment if a borrower defaults. It promises interest on surplus money and invites readers to consult before securing such loans.
A Thoreau excerpt reflects on time as unbending fate and love as a guiding force. It speaks of faith beyond hope, the urge to let verse impart meaning, and grows through seasons. The speaker vows not to doubt untold love that has endured from youth to old age.
The name whisky likely derives from the Celtic usgebeatha meaning water of life. It evolved through usquebangh to whisky, with seventeenth and eighteenth century usquebangh describing a spiced fruit liquor rather than modern whisky, before standardization of the current spirit.
Five year old Richard Lynch of Summitville suffered chest pain after pneumonia and faulty lung care led to discovery of a rubber tube and safety pin lodged between his left lung and heart. Doctors traced it to an earlier drainage tube misplaced during a prior operation and removed it in a delicate procedure.
Miss May Birkhead, journalist of note, has returned from France aboard the Leviathan with General Pershing. She gained early fame by joining the Carpathia as it rescued Titanic survivors and produced a heartfelt, though improvised, breakthrough story for a New York paper.
Florence Penaque, a thirteen year old Marietta girl, learned her father John Pewque died in Wyandotte Michigan ten years after leaving Lorain. Her mother died at birth, and Aunt Mrs Pewque and grandfather Samuel Pewque told her. She may live with relatives in Lovats Ohio.
Philadelphia police sought the owner after a stray sheep wandered into the city hall courtyard and grazed in the northwest corner. Watchmen pursued the animal, officers aided, and the sheep was cornered and captured.
Miss Edith Scott, health visitor, tells Malden district council Essex England that grandmothers with old fashioned ideas prejudices and superstitions are the greatest enemies of welfare work among children in her report.
A government emigration bureau predicts four million Germans may leave for South America, Russia, and the United States over ten years due to wartime hardships. Big Hamburg-Amerika Line reports a 400-family US and South America waitlist. Officials urge controlled migration to avoid exploitation and avoid mass dilution of German identity.
In Thames court London Magistrate Lankester notes a wife’s writ for separation over an awful temper and declares bad temper alone not a ground for separation. He warns that if it were, half the world would be separated.
Tom Fitz gerald of Ashtabula Ohio became the nation’s first contractor to inspect his road work from an airplane, riding in the seat over a brick highway to view quality and progress.
Deputies guards and other attaches at the New Jersey state prison in Trenton have organized a union and applied for affiliation with the American Federation of Labor.
The Santa Rosa transports crew member Dinny a goats legged Navy ship mascot refuses to land at Hoboken causing Army Navy tug of war. Dinny seeks pencil shavings and eats matches while the ship prepares for transfer to the Shipping Board.
Pieces of three skeletons were uncovered while clearing the Doelke residence site in Defiance Ohio for a new garage. The remains show long backbone vertebrae resembling a fish skeleton, a skull like a raccoon, and limbs akin to a large bird.
William Schumacher of Waverly Louisiana reports an oat crop doubling neighbors and averaging 80 bushels an acre this year, up from 30 to 40. He began cross breeding nine years ago with three kernels and pollen from Ames, selecting top stalks to boost yield to 2410 seeds from a single kernel.
In Dathis Texas, thieves increasingly steal shoes eggs and ham amid rising costs. Police note fifty burglaries last week with valuables left intact. A bricklayer in Philadelphia was fined 100 dollars for making his 12 year old son carry bricks at work.
The piece questions whether slow growth yields lasting vitality in animals and plants and asks if this applies to states and nations. It ponders whether rapid wealth and population growth support permanence and whether other qualities might be more desirable.
A curio of mixed aphorisms and erroneous statements covering topics from love and pride to anatomy and geography. It includes misprints and odd facts such as a 16 000 foot ocean depth and references to Amin, a pineapple canner in Honduras, and dicey views on honesty and work.
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