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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1921
Page
2
In vivid reportage from famine camps near Chinkiang and Chin- Kiang, Ellis notes hunger gives way to disease and loss of appetite. Relief workers, including Mrs Paxton, encounter starving victims who cannot taste food despite bowls of nourishment.
Advice on dog grooming covers seasonal washing, brushing, and drying for indoor and outdoor dogs with tips on avoiding chills and proper post bath care. The latter portion reports American Consul Dennis disputing old eel birth beliefs and detailing eel life history from freshwater to the sea, including spawning and juvenile behavior.
The first marriage in Canada, that of Etienne Couillard and Marie Hebert, was held in Quebec on August 26 1617. The 304th anniversary was celebrated in Quebec on August 26 with many descendants participating.
English visitors note American wastefulness and urge thrift. The author argues money slips away amid lavish living and dainty meals, warning the newly rich to learn hard work and self denial to secure old age.
A lyrical meditation on enduring marriage, urging a husband to declare love as years deepen devotion. The poem contrasts fresh passion with a steady, quiet fire that grows through time and shared life.
The piece explains plural forms for unit words like spoonful and armful. It states the unit is the spoonful when counting filling, so plural is spoonfuls. It notes exceptions when the unit is the spoon itself and gives examples with spoonfuls and spoons full.
Smithsonian studies led by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka find no distinct American type among long‑established settlers. The eight year project notes tall statures and mixed heritage, with intermarriage blurring unique national traits. Few regional differences remain beyond ancestry, while blond hair wanes and darkening progresses.
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics prescribes standard terms for army and navy use. Aircraft covers any craft navigating air, divided into aerostats and airplanes. Aerostats include air ships and balloons. airplanes are heavier-than-air craft. seaplanes for water landings. airships split into rigid nonrigid and semirigid types. New glossaries include aeronaut airdrome aviator fuselage gilder helicopter ornithopter pancake soar spin taxi zoom.
Newport resident I Henrietta Channing Ellery, born April 1838, is the last surviving grandchild of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, William Ellery. She and her deceased sister Mary never married and spent much of their lives at the Ellery homestead on Thames Street, now gone. The Newport chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution bears the signer's name.
Vane Denslow accepts a rich gift from his uncle Daniel Trench while facing a planned marriage arrangement with Miss Dolly Nellis. Dolly and Vane secretly marry, foiling Thacker’s plot, and Trench is forced to accept the outcome. Dolly and Reginald elope, delivering retribution to the schemers with Vane’s loyalty and integrity intact.
A curious remedy suggests stooping to tie shoes when you feel a cold coming on. Tying and then loosening both shoes allegedly shifts blood to the head and improves circulation, claiming to enhance immunity to catching a cold per Gateway Magazine.
In a Louisville Courier Journal item a husband explains a domestic dispute arising from a quarrel with the cook. He notes both spouses require the sides to proceed, underscoring a tense household moment.
Refugees from drought and grasshoppers crowd Volga valley cities like Syzran Samara and Tsaritzin. Docks and stations overflow with belongings as committees shift starving families toward food while typhus spreads. Markets barter rings and sewing machines for bread. many die unseen in the filth and cold.
Classic era kitchen notes offer preserved recipes for Beet Relish White Grape Preserves and Orange Jelly. Instructions cover browning pork, boiling vegetables, and making raisin sandwiches with nuts and whipped cream for a spreadable fruit dessert.
A collection of recipe fragments describes raisin pie with grape juice lemon and butter, cranberry conserve with oranges and raisins, beet salad with green pepper and onion, beet relish with horseradish and vinegar, baked cranberries, and chicken timbales with bread crumbs milk and eggs.
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