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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1920
Page
4
Prices From Bloomington Patten Flour and Groceries
A garbled listing shows Bloomington Patten flour and assorted groceries with prices for peaches corn tomatoes onions and soaps. Notable items include No 2% cans, sugar corn per dozen, hand packed tomatoes, early June peas, various coffee brands, and multiple soap bars with unclear quantities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Origins of Columbia the Gem of the Ocean Explained
The Philadelphia Record reviews three songs titled Columbia and traces origins from Timothy Dwight to Hopkinson and Shaw. It notes disputes over authorship of Columbia the Gem of the Ocean and explains how the tune A Becketts and Shaw claimed rights for the benefit of actor D T Shaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A’beckett
Columbia
Philadelphia Record
Delores Bacon
Timothy Dwight
Yale
Thomas A.beckett
Admiral Preble
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
D. T. Shaw
Chinese Museum
DR. Hartford
Shaw
Willig
David T. Shaw
T. A'Beckett
Ken
A'Beckett
New Evidence Links Rats to Cancer via Cockroaches
Researchers at Professor Piliger's laboratory in Copenhagen report rats from a sugar refinery fed on cockroaches and their parasite eggs developed stomach inflammations and cancer. In feeding trials, 116 rats showed gastric changes, 14 died in 30 to 40 days without cancer, and 84 died from stomach cancer as tumors grew until death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piliger
Copenhagen
Farmer’s Field Echoes Decline of Farm Work
A boy guides a literature teacher through a farm setting in Indiana. They observe a horse in a pasture alongside an auto dominated landscape. The boy explains the colt injured its foot yesterday and the farmer kept it in the barn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Dobbin
Belgian Farmers Get Mobile School Caravan
The Belgian government introduces a new method to teach farmers better farming by a motor caravan. A three-unit school building on a motor truck forms a portable classroom with a gasoline powered unit and two trailers that connect to create a compact teaching space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Motor
Gravity Labeler Simplifies Can Labeling Process
The gravity labeler, praised by Scientific American, departs from belt machines with a simple design. Cans roll from a receiving shelf down an inclined track, pick up labels from an adhesive tray and label stack, then pass brushes to affix the label at high speed, limited only by how fast cans are loaded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Animal words long in use give colorful language clues
The piece surveys animal based phrases like monkey wrench fox trot horse play and hare brained noting their old roots and current meanings. It cites monkey barge dog rose horse power hare lip pig tail and other examples from London Tit-Bits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chet
Arriet
Locust Plague of 1915 Ravaged Palestine and Syria
The 1915 spring locust invasion devastated Palestine and Syria from Egypt to the Taurus, destroying vegetables and fruit, stripping the Garden of Gethsemane, and flooding Jerusalem streets with swarms. US vice consul John W. Whiting described the moving ground and seasick sensations caused by the insects as fall brought cropless land and destroyed olive groves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palestine
Syria
Egypt
Taurus
Jerusalem
John W. Whiting
United States
Most Efficient Light From Fireflies Promises Heatless Illumination
A discussion on fireflies as an extraordinarily efficient light source notes the energy use is about four hundredths that of a candle flame. Scientists believe heatless light may reshape the global lighting industry and power large-scale street illumination with minimal energy.
Defeat of a confident, self reliant man
The excerpt argues that self reliance is the strongest capital in the world and that self depreciation is a crime when others can do great things. It questions why a person cannot achieve similar feats if they can, emphasizing inner resolve over external doubt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlson Swett Marden
Millions for a New Stomach
An old promotional piece touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for digestive health. It argues happiness hinges on digestion, claims to strengthen the system, and promotes a tonic free of alcohol or narcotics made from herbs.
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Dr Pierce
The
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Dr. Pierce
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