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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
2
Mrs. Smith dressed up attracts Mrs. Rogers on the road as they question each other about plans. Mrs. Smith declines visiting town or sisters and hints at Cy and Corners, but remains firm. The exchange ends with Mrs. Rogers exclaiming in frustration.
A brusque New York theatrics manager, lounging with feet on desk, interviews a pretty young woman seeking work. She exudes refinement and culture, prompting him to remark with a tongue‑in‑cheek request to remove her hat before proceeding.
Regimental HQ needs a tall flagstaff. Colonel orders a tall pole. O'Hara returns with a Lithuanian volunteer who is shorter than the desired height, joking that no one will notice the difference.
A manager asks if the worker is an expert salesman and notes the ability to sell across items from an ice pick to a car. He claims selling the manager’s own car to a persing buyer as an example, attributed to Foston Tremageties.
The article notes Epidaurus as the first complete health resort on the eastern Peloponnesus coast, developed around Aesculapius worship. It describes the site with baths, sleeping halls, a grand theater, stadiums, hippodrome, gardens, and water features, illustrating early use of natural remedies and leisure facilities.
The report notes grass cannot cure in humidity so it is cut fresh daily and sold in towns at set cargo prices. Native horses thrive on it, American horses do not. Guinea grass and Bermuda are common for horse roughage. Oats fail in rains, corn grows well and farmers harvest three crops yearly. Corn mills are expanding in the Visayan islands, with cornc meal favored over rice as staple food.
R T Poenck curator of mammals at the London Zoological Society argues an American badger in London is not a true badger. He notes the animal slept by day while British badgers rested, and his skull and teeth do not match a badger’s. He calls the creature a different tribe.
The Louise became the first small steamer to cross the Panama Canal on November 17, 1918, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. By August 1, 1914, the first sea water crossing had occurred, with daily service resuming the next day. Since then the canal has opened to commerce and carries about 30 steamers monthly.
The article reports that in Prussia an area of at least 2,705,000 acres of barren land remains. Between 1900 and 1918 about 100,000 acres were cultivated, and a further 3,705,000 acres of rich soil await drainage and reclamation.
In Joplin Missouri women discover that cleaned and dyed white sugar sacks can be used to make pretty waists and smocks and even practical items like milk strainers and shoe polishers. One stenographer has a sugarsack waist embroidered in wool.
Legless veterans in England receive dancing lessons to improve use of artificial legs and mobility. The program trains amputees in balance and movement, aiding confidence and rehabilitation in a social context.
The piece mocks the idea of destroying a building with synchronized bass viols and ram horn history. It notes vibration as a physical force, cites experiments with cardboard houses, and ridicules “jazz scientists” while warning of ignorance about vibrations and their alleged mental effects. It reflects the Dallas News tone and cites Amarillo and San Angelo sources.
A diplomatic secretary recalls a scene at a large weekend party where a dispute over how to say golf erupted between the host and hostess. He invoked Scottish pronunciation and declared in Scotland it is pronounced sowf, ending the wrangle with shared laughter.
After two years of patient reassembling, medieval stained glass windows from the capital’s oldest arts churches are being restored to their original frames. Some fragments were damaged in removal and French glass masters assisted in preparing these fragile masterpieces for return to the churches.
Washington clergy ponder which church will claim the president after March 1921 as Wilson worshiped at Central Presbyterian. Harding is a Baptist, Cox a United Brethren, Coolidge Congregationalist, and Roosevelt an Episcopalian, with Cox attending Christ Church in Dayton.
The royal collection at Windsor Castle includes golden keys presented to King George and predecessors on public building openings. Each key carries a brief account of the ceremony it commemorates.
A group at luncheon debated money’s buying power and four truths emerged. A slip lists four things money cannot truly buy: a baby's smile, youth once gone, the love of a good woman, and entrance into heaven. The tale, quoted from Frank Dorrance Hopley in the Dearborn Independent.
The Outlook laments the speed trap of modern life in cities like Manhattan. Aimed at restoring forefathers' leisure, the piece notes how road fast lanes and crowded weekends exhaust nerves and erode soulfulness as Americans chase empty goals.
After BiI’s fondness for picking winners fails, his wife confronts him at home. He jokes about hearing people win money while she imagines new hats. She asks to hear all the details as a bookmaker has taken his wages this week.
A Washington Post correspondent argues that Japan and Germany built global brands by sending trained personnel abroad to study markets and conditions. The author urges U S government backing to establish a school for Americans seeking posts overseas to learn peoples habits and customs.
Sager Wheeler known as the wheat wizard received a Doctor of Laws degree from Queen’s University Kingston Ontario for innovations in wheat farming. Thousands visit his Saskatchewan farm annually to study his methods. Despite profits for farmers he is said to remain comparatively poor. R Bruce Taylor Queen’s University president lauded his impact on Canada’s wealth.
The piece reports Mexico lifting heavy film censorship to boost cinema enterprise and notes the spread of film enthusiasm from Mexico to England, the continent, and even the Vatican urging picturing of a religious function. It covers venues like Devonshire House, the Alhambra, and the Empire.
A four year old collie owned by Omar Cunningham of Farmington Me earns praise for bringing home and nursing a baby woodchuck she had dug up. The dog, famed for digging out woodchucks, showed unexpected maternal care for the vulnerable mammal.
A bank of machines saves labor in Detroit street railway offices by handling about 200.0W coins daily. Operated by one third horsepower motors, coins enter from fare boxes, battered coins are rejected, and the rest are sorted, counted, and wrapped into rolls of desired amounts.
An interchurch survey reports Colombia suffers from severe poverty and leprosy, crippling the working class though the nation is rich in platinum gold silver coffee copper and other mineral and vegetable resources.
A French physician reports a method to cure pulse heat sounds in the ears caused by defective blood circulation using alternating electric currents.
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