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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1923
Page
2
The Herald of Greencastle lists obituary charges at 1 per obituary and additional poetry lines at 5 cents per line. Notices in the Greencastle IN paper also note 50 cent charges for Cards of Thanks and location at 17 19 S Jackson Street.
Lafayette Indiana September news notes that Purdue University engineers field letters on protecting buildings from storms. They urge multiple wood conductors from high points to moist earth, copper preferred, with few bends and professional installation to reduce fire risk and increase protection.
The New York Central’s Service Progress Special tours Indiana on a 12 000 mile journey beginning June 18 from Cleveland with the De Witt Clinton engine 1831 and Warther models. It showcases rail development and its link to farming, includes five moving picture reels and a tax growth exhibit titled Mrs Jarle’s Tax Works aimed at illustrating government costs.
Boston reports the release of 1,000,000 habrobracons wasps by the U S Department of Agriculture to combat the corn borer. The project, begun in Arlington laboratories and expanded to Saugus Cambridge Malden and Arlington, aims to protect crops without harming them. The borer caused about 1,000,000 in damage in Massachusetts last year and affects 211 plant varieties.
Russian explorer Professor Kozlov led a 1907 expedition to Kara Khoto in Mongolia uncovering Buddhist temples, mosques, papal money, and a 2000 volume library. They found a breached city wall, diverted river, and a nearby lake said to lure boats, with a three-year expedition planned including two women as ethnographer and doctor.
An old tip suggests dipping keys in oil to keep locks functioning and reduce door creaking. It notes that all bites must be touched with an oiled feather now and then to save the annoyance of creaking doors.
Wash oilcloth with warm water and a small storch made from boiling water. Do not use soap under any circumstances.
A romance from the American hospital at Stamboul ends in the marriage of Dr. Hal Ewell Davis of Brookline Massachusetts and Miss Pauline Allen of Boston Massachusetts a Near East Relief worker in Constantinople for two years She led rescue efforts during a Greek shelter fire and was praised in dispatches.
Frank Hurst as administrator will auction the Hiram S. Hurst estate at the Hurst farm north of Belle Union on Thursday September 13 1923 starting 10 30 a m. The sale offers livestock including a draft mare four cattle a milch cow one calf two yearling heifers nine sows and hogs with pigs by October. 200 bushels of corn 12 to 15 tons of rice clover hay and timothy hay. farming implements such as a Deering mowing machine riding cultivator steel roller hay rake and more including two wagons and fencing. Sheep consist of 30 breeding ewes one yearling buck and 23 spring lambs. Six months credit on sales over 10 with bankable note bearing 6 percent interest. Auctioneers O J Rector and Joel M Dobbs Paul Albin clerk.
Fashionable Greek and foreign women face violence from a local group calling itself the zealots of Christ. Members vow to enforce modest dress by force, roughing up those wearing low necklines or bare arms and tarning exposed skin. Male escorts defending women have sometimes struck back with severe beatings, yet the campaign continues.
Ferdinand Suydam, a New York City millionaire who became insane after inheriting a fortune in 1874, died after a 50 year period of mental illness during which a committee managed his affairs. His estate, once $50,000, grew to a million by 1928. he was deemed incompetent when he received the inheritance.
Fred Schoel of Ogden Utah, kidnapped as a toddler, has learned his identity after thirty five years and is now reuniting with relatives.
The Barnaby family has run the Sanur Mill in Greencastle for fifty years showcasing Indiana hardwoods. Charles H. Barnaby expanded the legacy in 1896 and the plant now outputs 20 000 feet of lumber and 20 000 feet of veneer daily with fifty workers. The business is noted for humane worker treatment and long service, with several employees reaching multi decade tenures and long service awards.
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