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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1914
Page
2
A New York City widow, starting with one client after her husband’s death, builds a profitable laundry and sewing service for bachelors. She wins a YMCA building entry, outsells a barber agent, and expands to employ her son and another assistant as her earnings double.
Mrs. Blanding patches a gum strip onto a sugar bowl and recalls a church fund tale. A torn ten dollar bill split between two deacons caused conflict, then was restored as a blessing when she later finds a identical bill in the Bible. The Lord’s gift saves them from hunger and reaffirms faith.
This vintage craft note suggests making a square pin cushion with a border of needles whose eyes are dipped in sealing wax to form little heads. The refined pins grip delicate fabrics without marring fine materials, offering a neat sewing aid for dressmaking and fine work.
Instructions cover selecting ripe fruit, proper proportions per quart can, sugar amounts, and steps for prepping, filling, sealing, and storing. Tips include using new rubbers, avoiding drafts, removing air, boiling around ten minutes, and re sealing if leaks occur within five minutes.
Advice from Harper's Bazar on boosting a shy child's self esteem. Emphasizes praise, attractiveness, social skills, and encouragement in arts, sports, and talents to help the child fit in with peers and gain confidence as she grows.
A historic note highlights the vast range of packing plant outputs, listing 25 to 30 edible products and an equal number of inedible byproducts such as soaps, glue, sandpaper, isinglass, lubricants, leather goods, ribonals of horn and bone, stock feed, and fertilizers, with ongoing research driving further innovations.
In a Georgia town a haunted house terrorized locals except Sam who offered to sleep there for two dollars. The next morning he vanished, a search failed, and four days later Sam emerged muddy and jokingly shouted he had been coming back, inciting a crude racial insult from a bystander.
A man explains a rule for aging with vitality and calm. He notes that anger and worry consume energy and urges saving effort for more worthwhile pursuits. The piece emphasizes mindful energy use to remain vigorous as years advance.
A Panama Canal story of corruption and culinary tricks at La Ronda. Muckraker Washington Givins exposes cooks led by George Pill and Bill Andrews who feed crews snake eggs and other dangerous fare. Givins is jailed for defamation. the plot twists with a jail diet and a snake-egg scare.
A Vesper Wisconsin farmer found his lost spectacles in a sack after trading seed. He had exchanged his seed for a small price and later bought a well advertised variety from a seed house. The glasses reappeared in a returned sack days later.
The Democrats of Jackson township will meet in mass convention at Barnard on Wednesday September 16 at 2 p m for nominating three members for advisory board for said township justice of peace one constable and road supervisor and to transact any other business that might arise. Charles Russell James Wright Committeemen weekly.
Dialogue hints at a conflict in a troubled couple. He defends virtue while she embodies social expectation, illustrating a clash of beliefs and lifestyles without explicit action.
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