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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1921
Page
4
A Russian traveler reports Manchurian business houses lack proprietors and employees with all members sharing profits. Salaries are meager and profits are divided at year end. He notes exceptional honesty of Chinese merchants with ten Nusso-Chinese Bank branches in China having no protested notes since establishment.
The article notes that even royal families endure pecuniary strain with wealth unevenly distributed among branches. It observes that each generation often bears a highness prone to worry or disgrace due to extravagance or irresponsibility, highlighting that crowned heads share common worries with ordinary people.
A satirical column notes Koreans eat a wide range of foods including dog meat and dried sea products, then shifts to a quip about white animals supposedly lacking smell and misadventures with pigs and livestock. It ends with a domestic scene about cigars and a gift exchange.
The piece surveys theories on why most people favor the right hand from heredity to education and habit. It notes that eighty per cent of newborns are congenitally ambidextrous and argues ambidexterity offers practical benefits, citing Japanese training for equal hand use and schooling methods in drawing and writing.
The piece notes about 225000 miles of cable lie on the seabed, valued at 250000000, with each mile costing roughly 1000 to lay. Cables last 30 to 40 years, and about 6900909 messages pass yearly, averaging 15000 daily, with speeds up to 100 words a minute and around 90 percent sent in code.
A weary professional pianist, after five hours of playing, asks to stop but is urged to continue by the hostess who boasts that neighbors poisoned their car and mocks concern for them. The dialogue reveals tense neighborhood intrigue and a defiant stance.
A dialogue depicts a new foreman challenging Rafferty as he oils a wheelbarrow. Rafferty asserts his actions and responds with a defiant remark about Birrell or his work, highlighting a clash over attention to machinery.
A terse quotation notes that treachery harms the author and backfires on the betrayer, reflecting La Fontaine’s pointed commentary on fidelity and consequences.
The tale follows Lethierry and his steamboat Durande. Captain Clubin steals 15 000, plans to flee, but wrecks on Douvres rocks. Gilliatt, Deruchette’s lover, retrieves the engine and the loot, returning in perilous fashion.
In 1921 a barber of plots unfolds as Vane Denslow rejects his uncle Trench’s control and a ward Dolly Nellis, while Leonie and Dale navigate rumors. An elopement by Dolly and Reginald upends schemers as Vane contends with claims of a biased fortune.
Report from Syzran and Samara describes famine in the Volga valley with refugees crowded at docks and stations. Drought and grasshoppers devastated crops. committees push grain and bread movement while markets trade essentials for personal belongings. Typhus spreads and children suffer amid squalor. German refugees and Friends relief workers note high child mortality and deaths on station platforms.
A Gateway Magazine tip suggests stooping to tie shoes when you feel a cold coming. Tie both shoes then loosen and retie for improved blood flow to the head and better circulation. The article claims this enhances immunity to colds.
A Louisville Courier Journal item describes a domestic dispute sparked by a quarrel between a wife and a cook. The husband declines to take sides, saying he needs them both. The brief notes the tension and the impact on the household.
A traveler describes Tibetan native dress a five and a half foot gown with long sleeves gathered at the waist forming a pocket and worn to ankle or knee length by classes. Tibetan women wear the same gown called ehuba. The piece notes women hunters seldom wear silk hats preferring bowler hats for comfort during a gallop.
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