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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1921
Page
4
Calculations vary by basis of reckoning. Gravity views imply prg mics around 28 inches, while Wolfilus argues that the sun’s dim light would require a very dilatable pupil and a Jovian average height near thirteen feet seven inches, four inches shorter than Og from Reshan per Deuteronomy.
A stone age poet composing a sonnet is challenged by a stonecutters union agent who demands a working card. The poet retorts he is a poet not a mechanic and risks a poetry boycott unless he hires a union amanuensis.
The article states that each person in the country produces weekly quantities of iron and steel goods including three quarters of a pound of rails and plates, a half pound of structural shapes, a third of a pound of sheets, and other items such as tin plate, bars, hoops, and iron castings, totaling 12 to 13 pounds per person per week.
The text traces glazing in Pompeii as certain, notes that glazed windows existed by the third century or earlier, and records Benedict Biscop introducing fashion about 674. It also cites glass windows in Italian private houses by 1177.
Little Ruth sits on her father's knee and with a cherubic request asks if he can sharpen slate pencils on his chin while his barber time face appears in the scene.
In the Siiesian town of Zan kau authorities install an automatic coin operated light a device at a street lamp that provides twelve minutes of illumination after hours for pedestrians. A tramp asks for a dime to buy bread and tricks Mrs Godard who only has a quarter and is too tired to walk home.
Harper's Monthly describes a weekly wage ritual on a terrace where Arab, Maltese, and Italian workers receive pay. Foremen tally names like Othman Mohammed Aboullah as men step up to collect their wages. A scarred, unnamed man called an assassin is present, suspected of a Kef road killing, though not convicted.
Francis Hoover, a major property owner, lauds the Isle of Pines as a model of American capital and energy. He cites early Spanish war neglect, then rapid citrus growth and flourishing groves. He notes American settlers building homes and large acreages, a healthy climate, and Santa Fe’s springs attracting attention as a health resort.
Government tests show that wheat with 2 percent or more impurities such as rye corn cockle kinghead and vetch lowers milling and baking quality. Rye and corn cockle most affect value with 1 percent seed reducing price and sapotoxin in corn cockle harming livestock. Dockage rules reduce payment by 100 pounds per 50 bushels when foreign matter is present.
Wheat yields at the Ohio Experiment Station were higher by about 10 bushels per acre when following soybeans potatoes or oats than after corn. After corn yielded roughly 23 bushels per acre while following the other three crops yielded about 18 bushels. Bull associations cut dairy service costs. average annual per-member fee was 5.48. The Agriculture Department employs over 16 000 staff for farming research market work and law enforcement. Mottled butter traces to uneven salt distribution.
The president of a large Wall Street bank tells the Saturday Evening Post a minimum deposit policy of 25 million dollars and explains the institution operates as a wholesale bank. The piece links wholesale banks to the needs of modern industry and huge loans with quick calls for accommodation from railroads and foreign government financing.
A South Seas king ordered his sixth piano in six months prompting a wry note from a piano maker. The letter suggests the king uses music as a hobby rather than fuel for missionaries and oddly favors ragtime over Wagner or Beethoven.
The late Professor Sommer ville of the University of Pennsylvania, famed for gems and mascots, would chase curios from meetings with Orientals anywhere from the Desert of Shara to the Himalayas until he secured, purchased, and exhibited the treasure at the university museum.
The New Orleans Picayune asks if a new generation will produce writers like Homer Virgil Shakespeare Dante Tasso Milton and others and notes a shift toward material wealth and trivial amusements reducing public favor for great works.
Engineers plan a great dam across the Thames between Gravesend and Tilbury with four locks to create a thirty foot depth and make the upper river tide independent. A railway tunnel would run through the dam linking Kent and Essex. The article contrasts this with statements about breakfastless children in New York and national prosperity.
A harsh moral note condemns greed and fraud as a path to wealth. It calls for exploiting others, amassing property, and praying for divine judgment, ending with a grim image of a small plot and a heavenly crown. The remark closes with Vermilion Republican attribution.
Readers question the efficacy and ethics of the so called bloodless surgeon Lorenz. The piece laments unhealed patients including Lolita and asks what happened to the poor children operated on and whether any were cured. The column accuses sponsors of lavish free advertising.
A plain spoken woman wins a separation case freeing her from a suitor who harbored illusions about himself. Her frank admission of being homely likely influenced the jury, who weighed her self awareness in their verdict.
Sixty eight sausage samples tested by the government analyst in Melbourne show no sample free of adulteration. The pork sausage contains no pork at all and the critic argues Australians deserve the result for meddling in others’ affairs.
The head of a New York firm, seeking to protect Italian interests after a trusted clerk’s death, decides his son should study Italian. A friend learns the son has been taking lessons from a teacher just from Italy, and the son jokes the instructor is starting to “sneak English” in.
The article notes Germany protects birds by law and education with bird houses and refuges in parks. It contrasts this with local government rewards for killing enemies of birds like kites, buzzards, hawks, magpies, kestrels and jays, reducing pest damage to crops and gardens.
Consular report from Shanghai states no demand for suspenders or garters among locals or foreigners. Chinese trousers require no suspenders as they are tied over the sock at the ankle with a ribbon or cotton band. Occasionally a native wears American garters as ornament outside the trousers.
Observations describe fishermen in Norway cutting and bleeding fish immediately after capture. Bleeding from the throat or tail is practiced to improve preservation. Freshness matters most before spawning as later fish deteriorate and become watery. Some people react with vomiting and hives to herrings and mackerel, and dead oysters in heaps may contaminate live oysters.
A description explains that an acre measures 209 feet by 209 feet, totaling 43 681 square feet. It calculates that a frontage of 354 feet implies a depth of about 125.39 feet, with the product approximating 47 581 square feet, as illustrated by L Gibbins in the New York Work.
Postcards are sent to pets using ostentatious practice sparked by a hotel resident. Proposed Sahara irrigation schemes are deemed impractical due to deep sand deposits. A girl notes that drinking after rejection hides a man’s true feelings and courage to propose.
Roy Bone a Wichita Beacon former reporter wrote a fire incident headline with Gone to His Last Fire after a fireman died in a hose cart accident. The Wichita paper carried the line and Bone was promptly fired, per the Kansas City Journal account.
A primary school exam joked about the five senses with sneezing sobbing crying yawning and con going. It notes a sixth sense as an extra, described as snoring, in a humorous aside from Woman's Home Companion.
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