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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1923
Page
3
Greta Keyt joins Stewart Garage as bookkeeper and also works at the Shoe Shop Office. Noblesville, Brazil and Indianapolis residents visit, with many attending the State Fair. Teachers and church mission groups plan meetings, and local professionals renew contracts and health improves.
The text notes rhubarb’s long medicinal history dating to the sixteenth century but asserts its substantial use in the country and Europe only within the last century. It contrasts established medical value with relatively recent widespread use.
Simple method to keep a bird cage clean by lining with four or five layers of paper cut to fit. Each morning lift out the soiled sheet and replace with fresh paper for a clean bird and minimal effort.
A playful word puzzle asks a friend to spell capitalization with seven letters. The answer given is Iza tion, a punny split that echoes capitalization in a quirky way.
The fragment discusses sewing machine oil removal with soap and water, then benzine or gasoline for oil in stitching, and includes comic asides about a landlady and a wedding next door. It cites lines from various papers and a quip about a famous fly in the ointment.
A Cleveland Times Thought for the Day urges readers to look up from worries and avoid small-mindedness. It muses on footprints in time versus fingerprints, noting no one owns the sky and cautioning against constant self-pity.
The Sinois State Journal notes that outward looks cannot reveal a man’s true religious depth. Margins suggest appearances mislead about belief intensity and personal faith.
A compact reflection notes sincerity as a rare gift beyond everyone’s duty and places humility as the fruit of intimate knowledge of one’s own heart. Crombie.
A fragment discusses a phrase about following a profession before reading it. It mentions Boston and a tran script context suggesting a literacy or social commentary. The readable text hints at contrasts between followers and leaders and timing of learning.
A French proverb notes that laughing at talented men is the privilege of fools. It reflects a timeless warning about vanity and disdain toward skill.
WANTED single man or couple for dairy poultry and fruit farm. Must be dependable with good references. Apply at Herald office. BUY FOUNTAIN PENS at Langdon Co's Book Store. Your name marked on them free.
Nice rural home two miles northeast Cloverdale with 10 acres, corner lot on two pike roads, Cloverdale City Schools, barn and poultry house, possession any day, cash price 2650. Brown & Moffett Greencastle Indiana. Also Moore's Concord Grapes ripe for jelly juice or table. Lane don & Co's Book Store.
Sales blurb promo urges readers to purchase school books immediately and notes J K Langdon Co as the source.
Miss Helen Pfahler daughter of Mr and Mrs George Pfahler who reside on east Seminary street has accepted a position with King Morrison Foster Co Ford and Fordson agents.
H W Davis argues newspapers shape American language more than schools. He praises daily papers for spelling and clarity, notes their bias toward direct style, and claims journalists set the standard for modern speech drawn from government slang sports terminology art science business and verse.
A Chicago Tribune recounts a hike where a boy to scare a cow used a switch from a tree with leaves. The cow chased him as he fled over a fence, leaving the switch to be eaten, revealing the animal wanted the green leaves. The narrator ends amused by the misunderstanding.
The plane crossed from coast to coast starting May 2 eastern time and ending May 3 Pacific time, a nonstop journey that saw pilots view both oceans. Ezra Meeker of New York sent congratulations noting his own seventy-one year old ox team record and expressing eagerness to join next time.
The passage lists eight Jordans in Great Britain including a river near Edinburgh a Dorset hill and a Lancashire sandbank plus five more being towns and suburbs. It notes a Jordan river in Utah feeding the Great Salt Lake and a Jordan river in Ontario flowing to Lake Ontario between Hamilton and Niagara. It recalls 1812 US forces facing Canadian troops at Stony Creek where a night attack thwarted an American pursuit.
Alexis Fauchon a Glos farm hand in Normandy has spent seventy six years in the same job. He began at age nine as a herder on the Mouton farm and now serves the great grandson of his original employer.
A humorous meditation on new marriages and domestic misadventures. A wife recounts quirky tales from a New York Sun and Globe writer about back pains cured by mistaken borax, a stormy sea cruise, buttoned shoes on a rock, and sausage meat mix ups.
An American exporter shipped wormy oak abroad and found no buyers until an antique furniture factory used the worm holes to suit its clock making. The oak was sold at a premium, forming a profitable overseas connection.
An enlisted officer newly commissioned as second lieutenant delivers a terse war message to his runner. He warns the colonel that his platoon, in a dire advance near Chateau Thierry, is decimated and needs reinforcements immediately.
A visitor in Naples, watching Vesuvius from his hotel for days, tells city officials he is a revenue officer and warns that someone is running a still on the mountain, claiming keen inspection but offering no proof.
Quote from Dr Norman Maclean describes the plain of Gennesaret once fruitful and now wasteland except for a Jewish colony that is cultivating soil and preparing a tree nursery amid weeds. He laments the shadow of the Turk but envisions restoration as a garden of the Lord.
Reporter finds old barns are reused as garages and storage spaces, with lofts empty and cobwebs. Some have become children’s playhouses, mostly by the children, noting varied fates for these monuments to horse drawn era.
Mike the intelligent dog joins the Al G Barnes four ring wild animal show arriving in Greencastle on September 5. Mme Suzzete, star of the monkey contingent, recently gave birth to twins and Mike adopted the trio, giving them daily airing amid a menagerie of 1 200 animals.
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