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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1920
Page
3
Local groups in Greencastle gather for events and updates. The C C Club meets with Mrs Elsie Hunter while Greencastle Musicale plans an evening program at Music Hall. Members of Kappa Alumnae Club and Rotary Club hold gatherings as civic activity continues.
The DA R held its regular meeting on Tuesday evening with Miss Pearl O Hair in attendance, addressing routine organizational matters and upcoming activities.
A prospector in Guernsey reports uncovering a drift tunnel while clearing debris and finding bones of three men and a schist vein with gold samples. Copper and iron ores were noted by early miners before the field was abandoned for lack of railroad access. The Sunrise iron mine expansion by Rockefeller interests is mentioned.
Seed wheat for sale no rye in it about 25 bushels, price 2.30 per bushel by Harry M. Randel. Apples for sale at old Grogan farm five miles south of Greencastle Route 7.
War reshapes speech as soldiers coin slang and new terms such as airplane related words. Descriptive military tech terms like barrage camouflage listening post gas mask and gas shell enter common usage reflecting the trench experience.
A reader challenges an editorial on Fluid Gold's World Flow arguing that shifting international banking will not return gold to London. He cites 1893 currency change in India turning India into a gold sink and draining England's gold standard, predicting ongoing heavy losses to western trade.
An observer in University Park on a Sunday evening counted passing vehicles on North Meridian Street. He estimated 100 cars in about four minutes, implying roughly 1 500 cars per hour and about ten gallons of gasoline burned each hour in that one block.
An expert driver explains that road pitch and slope cause more wear on right tires, not driving style. Recommended rotation order is right rear, left rear, right front, left front each month. The text also notes plans to introduce elementary science in United Provinces of India schools with a six year program including agriculture to support livelihoods.
More than 60 000 people have returned to the ruins of Reims and are largely sheltering in miles of wine cellars. The reopenings and resettlement efforts mark a slow revival after devastation.
The total currency supply is about 6 billion dollars with an estimated amount held by banks representing less than half of the total.
A local ad notes 3 boxes of Kitchen Cleaner priced at .1.45 per dozen units. Readable OCR fragment indicates a bulk sale offer with unclear store name and date.
Classifieds show openings across Putnam county including a gentlemanly medicines salesman with a team or light car sought by The H. C. Whitmer Company in Columbus Indiana. Other ads include laborers for Indiana Portland Cement Co and Amercian Zinc Products Company with day and night work through winter.
Private sale of a furnished one and a half story frame dwelling at 212 W Columbia Greencastle Indiana. Six rooms North Front with city water, near Public square and First Ward School Building. Sewer assessments paid and no mortgage. Court ordered sale by Executor Andrew E Durham with cash or 50 percent loan option.
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