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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1923
Page
4
The annual Hunt Reunion was held at Ed Wright’s home in North Salem Indiana with about sixty attendees. A noon dinner was shared and guests enjoyed the gathering. The group hopes to meet next year with Mr and Mrs Charlie Hunt of Fillmore Indiana.
Detroit residents Mr and Mrs C C Leachman and son returned home after visiting Marion Sinclair. Paul Bales and friend Franklin Arms of Indianapolis visited Fillmore relatives before returning home. State Fair attendees included Mrs Minnie Shuck Glenn Campbell Evelyn Miller Marjorie Robinson and Noble Robinson. Mrs A Padgett returned home to send children to school. Ruth Smith and Evelyn Miller attended a circus in Greensburg. Neighbors said farewell to Oliver Chambers from Indiana as he prepared to return to Honeywell Kansas. Aubrey Lambert and Esther Smith attended the Lambert Reunion. Everett Herod moved into Clay Robinson’s property.
Marion Township farmers shipped eleven car loads of tomatoes from Fillmore this week. Wet weather caused many tomatoes to rot and be wasted, limiting shipments. The tomatoes are described as large and of fine quality despite losses.
Mr and Mrs Ab Hubbard visited the first of the week with their daughter in Indianapolis hospital recovering from tonsil removal. Ice cream social planned at Canaan Church Saturday night. Mrs Dessie Bryan moved to Greencastle to live for winter. Mrs Bryan employed at S C Prevo Sons Store. Mr and Mrs Frank White and family will soon depart for California for the winter. Miss Cleo McCoy to teach at Cloverdale High School this year. Lloyd McGinnis ill with heart trouble under Dr Barnhill of Indianapolis. Harry Walker family moved from Floyd township to Fillmore for school. Mrs Lyda Garres of Pasadena California visiting parents. Mr and Mrs C E Bridges to Frankfort to visit uncle Otho Bridges. Gregg Bulis in charge of Harry Alter store Thursday and Friday during State Fair. O N Hicks family to Spencer Sunday for Spear Reunion.
L W Rodenberg at the state school for the blind developed a bar over bar method allowing blind musicians to read both hands in one score. The Jacksonville school now publishes more music than any other U S institution and the system has been widely adopted.
Buddhist leaders forecast a Hawaii evangelistic association with English language teaching. They will train English speaking Buddhist priests, publish canonical books in English, and circulate publications. Two graduates will study five years on the mainland to return as preachers. Archbishop M T Kirby of the Hongwanji mission leads the effort.
New York reports that glucokinin a vegetable extract shown to mimic insulin properties is touted by the American Chemical Society as an inexpensive diabetes treatment. Discovered by Dr J J Willaman of the University of Minnesota the extract derives its name from glycogen and is injected to treat illness.
John P. McGuire of St Louis, after seven hours under a bed, shot and killed boarder Henry Stamme in his home. McGuire, jailed, accuses his wife of misconduct with the boarder. she admits the charge according to police.
London reports Miss Joan Proctor has been appointed curator of the reptile house at the London Zoo Gardens. She will oversee cobras, pythons, alligators and other reptiles, with a career noted for deep expertise in ophidiology and early training under Dr Boulenger.
Stormfield the Mark Twain estate in Redding Connecticut burned destroying the 18 room villa bought last December by Mrs. Margaret F. Givens of New York. Eben Givens discovered the blaze in the laundry and all occupants evacuated in night garments. Fire initially blamed on spontaneous combustion of painting materials in the laundry.
New York report estimates Greece will expropriate about 3 million acres for 200000 peasants under new laws. Land value cited at 22 to 53.9 million dollars, affecting roughly 1200 estates including villages. Wealthy owners and monasteries protest expropriation amid government land holdings.
London hotel and dance hall owners unite to seek lighter closing hour laws. They call for a new statute to supersede the 1751 George II regulation forcing all entertainment venues to close at midnight. The Brighter London committee backs the reform as a bid to rival Paris.
The Daily Chronicle reports British experts are building heavily armored battering vans intended to attack massive airships. Pilots would aim at vulnerable wings and control surfaces to cripple targets, using telescopic sights and a poverty terror engine to escape and reset for another strike.
In Lower Sydenham Kent England the pump room at the South suburban gas works has been fitted as a clinic for whooping cough. Mothers bring their ailing children to inhale fumes from crude liquor beneath the pump room. The fumes are claimed to be an excellent cure.
Anchorage reports captors describe deadly piracy in the Siberian Arctic trade. A trader claims a Siberian official was murdered aboard a vessel after being forced to pay taxes on furs, with details of a man clinging to ice as the crew sailed away.
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