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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1914
Page
2
A reader questions the GOP program if they win the election noting no clear promises beyond resisting extravagance in the 1014 platform. The writer contrasts Republican silence with Democratic and Progressive records and recalls Beveridge’s rise and the Payne Aldrich tariff battles.
The passage recalls Dolliver’s sacrifice to expose legal injustice and portrays a Republican party under public censure. It claims party leaders shift loyalties to block Beveridge and favor Shively, framing a bitter intra party struggle influencing Iowa politics.
In Blue Rapids Kansas Miss Frances Ross a public school teacher has extracted over fifty teeth from pupils to handle dental issues herself provoking objections from local dentists and some school boards. She says a strand of stout thread suffices when a tooth cannot be pulled by fingers.
In Racine Wisconsin Frank Clou mieck ten years old struck a goose flock leader with a stick to drive geese from Lake Michigan shore. The leader attacked sparking other geese to join. The boy died minutes after his father rescued him from convulsions caused by the attack. Doctors cited crushing injuries and eye damage. The boy was the Wind Point goose farmer’s son. Three geese had to be shot to end the attack.
John Berger Weighe, ninety pounds, testified his wife spanked him after he claimed assault and battery. He accused her as a wife using corporal punishment amid a disput earring. The judge praised the wife saying six children and husband earning twelve dollars weekly, with recent alcohol spending, led to the spanking scene. The squire discharged the wife after her account. Museum receives Lincoln hair.
Gen James Wilson wills mementoes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art a blood stained Lincoln hair ring hair from Washington Wellington Napoleon Grant Lincoln Washington sleeve links and other artifacts. The piece outlines historic relics destined for display in New York.
A New York report accuses city hospitals of using foundlings and charity patients for vivisection like vaccine and serum tests without consent. Wholly harmful inoculations and germ exposures allegedly harmed patients, including 170 in one institution and 146 others aged 2 to 18 in separate tests.
An editor jeers at Bainbridge society women, charging many wives of poor men live lavishly while neglecting motherhood. Letters defend the women, denying the accusation and criticizing the editor for an unprovoked assault on local taste and decency.
A schoolroom tale explains that a pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of lead when weighed in air. The air’s buoyancy makes feathers appear lighter, while removing air reveals the feathers’ true heavier mass.
The article describes Nicaraguan death customs blending Indian traditions and colonial influence. A priest administers last rites as a gold or jewel encrusted monstrance leads a procession down silent streets. Soldiers, vestments, and a canopy bearers accompany the priest while villagers kneel and show respect, with violence warned for foreigners who fail to comply.
The article traces the extinction of Santa Barbara Island Indians off the California coast. It notes early accounts from missionaries and voyagers, examines remains and skulls, cites population decline from about nine hundred in 1825 to complete disappearance by 1875, and describes their perceived degradation and diet including grasshoppers and large earthworms.
The smallest book ever printed at Padua by Salmin Brothers measures ten by six millimetres. It contains eighty pages with nine lines per page of ninety five to one hundred characters, all clearly visible. It reproduces Galileo Galilei’s unpublished 1615 letter to Christina of Lorena.
A study finds climbing stairs requires eight times the force of equal distance on a flat surface, highlighting the higher energy demand of vertical movement. Researchers explain the result reflects greater muscular work and cardiovascular load per stair.
The Rev. Frank Coats of Marionville rode Sam Ellis’s bucking bull at a public event near Galena, winning a $19 prize after enduring 11 leaps and a fall. A crowd of about 200 cheered as he mounted again and held on for a second attempt to claim the prize and reform through daring.
John Corbett remains the sole resident of Sylvanite New Mexico acting as mayor police judge and all town offices. The once bustling mining town is now deserted with one post office jail without a jailer moving picture theater without a staff and few business houses.
In New York Stelos Kornuos’s restaurant erupts as four diners insult him and throw dishes. A man demands portions of beef stew, others fling a pickle and vinegar, plates shatter, and Kornuos is knocked unconscious before police arrest all four.
Article recounts ancient clubs and weapons from Mexico Polynesia and Africa. It notes obsidian blades inserted into wooden clubs and shark teeth affixed to basalt shafts, with sizes from inches to sixteen feet. Describes evolution from club to spear and tomahawk forms and regional use as missiles.
A New York Sun piece by A. W. Adsto recounts a red squirrel perched in a tall cottonwood as a thunderstorm nears. The storm’s bolt seems to strike the ground while the squirrel proclaims a wary retreat and taunts the lightning.
In a court scene a Scottish woman firmly defends her husband’s use of a poker in a domestic assault case. The judge and lawyers clash over language while the witness insists the weapon used was the poker and nothing else. Laughter hangs in the air as she stands by her testimony.
Notice is given to heirs and legatees of D. McCray deceased in Putnam Circuit Court Gr eastle Indiana. The final settlement accounts with the estate are to be shown why they should not be approved. Heirs must prove heirship and receive distributive shares. Witness, Clerk, Putnam Circuit Court, 15 August 1914.
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Liniment as relief for rheumatism sciatica and backache. It claims widespread patient use with positive results and notes sales through local dealers.
W. W. Tucker announces his medical practice and surveying services from an office on Vine Street between Washington and Walnut Streets in Indiana.
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Pop ham County announces Karl Randolph as administrator of the estate of John W Randolph late of Pur Indiana deceased. Dated August 19, 1914. Hays and Murphy Attorneys listed.
J. H. Hough of Eldon Iowa recalls advising volunteers enlisting for the Spanish war to take Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He reports thanks for the advice and claims everyone should carry this remedy whether away or at home.
Notice in Putnam Circuit Court Sept term 1914 of Susanah Glover requesting divorce and name change from Charles A. Glover. Defendant, a non resident, must appear by October 14, 1914, at Greencastle Court House. failure to appear may allow default. Clerk Arthur J. Slamrick. Atlee James & Allee, attorneys. Published weekly Aug 21.
Mrs. C W Florenet of Rockfield Indiana reports her past experience with a diarrhoea remedy that helped during a summer complaint. The endorsement notes quick relief and mentions the product is available from all druggists.
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