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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1914
Page
3
The article compares parliamentary pay in European states from Norway to Portugal. It notes daily wages or yearly allowances for lawmakers, with varying conditions for attendance and expenses. Denmark and Bulgaria are highlighted for low pay and special privileges. Germany lacks salaries for some, while the UK Italy and Spain pay nothing.
Historical note discusses silk production threats from chemical methods including guncotton based silk and a process to duplicate silk properties. It describes improvements in artificial silk, qualities like brilliancy and seroop sound, and the global variation in human weights and growth patterns across ages and sexes.
A fragment from a New York scene shows a speaker detailing how many workers at a busy urban mix of shops and services speak various languages. The extract mentions a French stall owner, an Italian grocer, a German laundress, and a porter, highlighting communication gaps in a cosmopolitan setting.
London observes a growing female cigarette trend with jewel case accessories and luxury holders. Doctors and hotel managers note smoking becomes common after meals and tea, aided by nervous-therapy prescriptions and continental influence.
In San Antonio a woman named Mrs Mary Smith built a thriving laundry from home. From a humble start due to a crippled husband she hired workers, kept old fashioned washtubs and irons, and grew to a $60 weekly payroll. Her success funded a comfortable home and bank savings all earned in her yard.
A colony of twenty five beavers in Boulder gnawed down more than 100 trees, some three feet in diameter, using the wood to build their homes and dams.
Mrs. Mary Mediar was feeding chickens in Royersford Pennsylvania when attacked by a rooster. She suffered severe scratches and cuts from the fowl's spurs and beak.
Mrs Burke discovered a fowl with two hearts after dressing 4H chicken. Dissection showed both hearts incomplete though arteries and veins connected so they functioned as one heart.
State Fire Marshal Harrison Parkman warns sun rays through glass or bright surfaces ignite fires in farms and cities. Reports describe matches on a sunlit window starting a kitchen blaze, unpainted tin causing roof fires, and a glass fish bowl edge lighting a table runner. Electric arcing from wind and grass against fences also sparks prairie fires, tallying about 30 losses to hay and several structures.
In Wagoner Oklahoma the Boy Scout movement operates a full city police force bank court and deputies. The system has closed whisky joints and gambling houses, reducing crime and transforming the town into a safer place under Scout Master H. H Townsend who became Chief of Police.
Edward Meyer, 20, outdistanced five rivals in an onion eating race in Davenport Iowa finishing 214 onions in 33 minutes for a wager of one acre of land valued at 1000 dollars. Meyer grew the onions eaten and topped the nearest rival who consumed 178 onions. The deed to the land has been transferred.
A temple complex in Lu Chou Fu near Nanking honors Li Hung Chang with a 400 by 75 foot shrine built for ancestor worship. It was funded to 40 000 pounds and is joined by a nearby mausoleum and another ancestral temple of the Li family, which holds vast holdings nearby.
Cosmos notes sugar began in China as a distant practice and later became a costly luxury in Rome and beyond. By 1090 Crusaders found cane sugar in Syria, and over centuries it spread to Cyprus, Nile Delta, Africa, Sicily, Naples, Spain, Madeira, Canaries, then to Guadeloupe Martinique Louisiana, Brazil and Jamaica.
The Philadelphia Bulletin notes Giovanni Farina, Italian, invented eau de cologne and once offered his recipe for 5750 in 1803. Heirs later sold it for 200000. Chartreuse dates to Carthusian monks now produced in Spain after auctions and business losses. The Oxford Bible paper uses a secret process valued at 1250000 by Oxford University Press. Absinthe secrets moved through French chemists and distillers, ending with depreciated value.
The article describes wild bees with diverse habits including cuckoo bees that invade other nests and lay eggs, and female Amazon like workers, along with the tailoring bee that cuts leaves to line its nest. It notes about 5,000 bee species with distinct behaviors.
Experiments in Florence observed six snails moving between two points ten feet apart. Start to finish times were recorded to determine pace. Data converted to feet yards and furlongs show a snail would take fourteen days to travel a mile.
Fragmentary text pairs a quotation about perception with a recipe note attributed to Austin Bierkower. The cooking section lists camphor based ointment ingredients including lard, spermaceti, wax, camphor gum, glycerine, melted gently. the exact source and context are unclear.
A New York Times article notes cars revolutionize hunting by enabling rapid travel across long distances to remote woods. Automobiles carry tents gear and fishing equipment, and even deer and caribou, with machines handling rough log roads better than horses, wheels pushing through rural and woodland routes.
Three rangers traced Blythe California men who reportedly carried away up to 60 000 in gold from the ruins of La Paz ten miles northwest of Blythe on the Colorado River. The famed Rabana store and saloon, a gold dust hub, drew treasure hunters after his death but no substantial stash was ever recovered. Gold in La Paz dates to the 1850s with placers and nuggets valued over 100 each and total camp take exceeding two million dollars.
Wilbur Wright criticized daring pilots saying they should learn a lesson from danger. He compared their faith in luck to that of Hiram Bucktoss, a cautious West Carrollton farmer teased by Dayton shop talk about buffaloes and grapes. The exchange, cited by the New York Press, reflects early aviation bravado.
The article explains a secret Gypsy signaling system using road patterns like slicks stones or grass at road junctions to convey directions. It notes the pattern mirrors ancient methods and can be read only by Gypsies even when visible as signboards.
German doctors study how long eggs stay in the stomach as a digestibility measure. Lightly cooked eggs rank highest, followed by raw eggs, buttered eggs, and finally hard boiled eggs in omelettes. Nitrogen absorption is similar to meat, but fat absorption is higher.
Posey County breeder Dr W Hastings uses a $2,500 zebra and its mate from Manbure Germany on a Mt Vernon farm for cross breeding native stock. The zebra, though once deemed impractical, works harder than a horse with lower feed costs. The animal cost $5,000 including transport and one zebra died last year. Hastings farms at a high scale with land valued at 20 an acre.
Trustees announce weekly hours to transact office business at various locations. J W KnaurER and Ernest Kivett list Madison and Mill Creek townships with Monday Friday and Wednesday Saturday slots. Benjamin Walls and Oliver Stringer set Jackson and Monroe Township sessions. Ob Etcheson Floyd and Pred Todd Floyd Township schedule midweek meetings.
Otto Rector, trustee, states he will conduct office business at his Marion township residence each Friday and at his Fillmore location on Tuesdays.
In Geneva New York Mrs M J Gallagher reports long standing acute indigestion and constipation. After trying many remedies she used Chamberlains Tablets from a local druggist and soon improved. She notes eating without discomfort after two bottles. Sold by all dealers.
Greencastle resident I W Key shares a long kidney complaint history and says Doan's Kidney Pills relieved back pains and other symptoms after a single box. He notes the product cost 50 cents and was available at all dealers, with Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo New York as the makers.
Edmonton resident Tom E Mason, a fur trapper, was badly clawed and pecked by a large golden eagle during a trapping incident. He killed the bird and suffered injuries to his face neck left shoulder and arm and sought medical treatment.
An advertisement touts Humphreys Witch Hazel Oil as a compound for piles with external or internal use. It claims relief after one application and lists two sizes 23c and 1.00, available at all druggists or by mail from Tromphreys Homeu Medicine No 156 Willtare St New York.
An 19th century veterinary ad promotes treatment for diseases of horses cattle sheep and dogs with Humphreys Veterinary Manual. It lists a New York address 1A Williams Street for the remedies and manual.
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