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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1919
Page
2
Daily Herald lists by mail rates for one year four months and less than four months with 1 10 cents weekly and 35 cents for four months. Obituaries are charged at 1 each and poetry incurs 5 cents per line.
The Central Trust Company offers long term farm loans with no commissions no stock subscriptions or assessments if a borrower fails to pay. They will pay interest on surplus funds.
A cough remedy praised for coughs colds croup and whooping cough has grown from a small start to broad national use and widespread international distribution. The appeal claims the medicine possesses extraordinary merit and invites trials.
Public sale announced for the farm located 3 miles southwest of Greencastle Stop 32 Interurban. Information includes a testimonial from Mrs. James Brown Clark Mills New York praising Chamberlains Cough Remedy for swift cough relief.
A collection of quirky lines includes a cheeky girl with painted cheeks a proverb about silence and significance sparse phrases about Mexico birds of prey and a fish dealer. The text reads like disconnected notes or captions with varied imagery and odd word choices.
United States Public Health Service issues an authoritative statement urging easing of 45 or more dangerous practices while emphasizing preventive measures. The notice highlights immunity in cases and stresses sanitation and avoidance of personal contact as necessary precautions.
Officials warn a possible influenza recurrence this year may be less severe than last winter. Public health authorities stress sanitation and reduced contact while noting immunity in many recovered cases. The report links rising pneumonia deaths in spring 1918 to an unseen influenza outbreak that ignited the autumn pandemic.
The article analyzes the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States, noting a main wave in September to November and higher mortality among young adults. It emphasizes transmission by contact, multiple infection paths, and masks' limited impact, urging municipalities to set up emergency funds and ready preventive measures for potential local recurrences. It concludes with a call for preparedness.
A playful look at how pace and brevity shrink terms from states to sodium encodylate and KO. The piece notes abuses across sports writing and daily life, from shopping to fashion, warning that overabbreviation can dull meaning while celebrating clever shorthand.
Tre Robinson director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York identifies a marble bust in the museum store room as a portrait of Herodotus father of history. The piece, once in Egypt and later owned by Benha and Full Brogseh Bey, has sat in dust for decades before its renewed dignity and status as a notable Herodotus likeness.
A young performer imitates Nat Goodwin on stage and asks for his critique. Goodwin confirms attendance and offers a blunt remark that “one of us is rotten,” highlighting the risky line between imitation and originality.
A flawed interview with director Reb Wagner from a Los Angeles picnic reveals his search for varied hires including heiresses and former staff. A chambermaid applicant is described as lacking individuality but hints at some special inclination.
The piece analyzes railroad freight charges in 1916, noting per capita and per-family costs. It estimates a 25 percent rate increase would raise per capita tax by 6.25 dollars and family tax by 81.25 dollars, and cites freight rates rising over 50 percent since 1916 pushing the family bill toward about 200 dollars.
Figures released by the war cabinet show Britain counted 8,654,467 men in war with England contributing 4,006,158 and white dominions and colonies totaling 7,130,280. Non white enlistments including 1,250,000 from India brought overall numbers to 1,524,187.
A boy asks an airman to look for Billy's kite that drifted away last Tuesday. The fragment captures a child’s polite plea to a passerby for help in a neighborhood kite incident.
Paris plans a summer American conservatory at Fontainebleau with 100000 francs funding by the Fontainebleau council. Francis Casadesus leads the project to offer three month courses July to September for students from American conservatories, with Paris Conservatory instructors and Paris grand prize eligibility. Tuition is 64 dollars monthly. lodging 70 to 75 dollars monthly, room for 200 students, more by arrangement.
Joseph Randle of Chester Pa fishing near this city was yanked overboard by a large fish and plunged into a bed of quicksand. His companions dived in to pull him free and he was brought to the surface unharmed.
A thief gathered $37 and jewelry in a Medford Oregon lodging house but fled when he saw a wooden leg inside the trousers he attempted to lift. The intruder dropped the loot and fled, thinking a man was hidden in the leg.
A jumble of aphorisms and trivia on memory, philosophy, love, honesty, and society. Notable lines touch on doctors and hope, women's silence, charity, politics, poetry, and demographics. The collection includes references to indigo, sugar production, potash on Sicily, and British Columbia registration data.
Experiments show adding electric lights in winter poultry houses increases egg production. Clemson University researchers report best results when lights start at three in the morning and hens roost at their usual time, aligning with California practices that simulate summer conditions.
London reports higher clothing costs for women as manufacturers under government guidance plan standard outfits like 1918 styles to curb prices. Leeds firms hold about 2000 yards of material for mass produced pieces, but rising production costs threaten to lift final prices beyond last season’s 14 to 16 dollars.
In Paris two youths Albert Mavant and Jean Arc were linked to stealing a $1,000 pearl necklace from an American hotel worker. They bought two ice cream cones for the price at a vendor, while the Red Cross guest stayed at the hotel. The ice cream man and others were taken to La Sante prison.
Atlanta readers learn of a prize pig delivered by air to a rookie who drew the correct number after enlisting in July. Lieutenants McMullen and Wolfe, famed flyers from Souther Field Americus, staged the delivery from Americus on an aviation prize scheme tied to Aries Parris’s pig farm.
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