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Newspaper

Greencastle Herald

Location

Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Sep 12, 1913

Page

2

Arnold Covers Terms of Subscription

Charles J. Arnold outlines subscription terms priced at 2 cents per issue, detailing payment expectations and delivery arrangements. The notice clarifies ongoing subscription obligations and method of receipt.

Doing Their Duty Kidney Remedy Ad in Greencastle

Greencastle readers learn kidney duty and filter blood. Backache and fatigue signal kidney trouble. Mrs. Belle Hinkle of Illinois Street testifies Donn's Kidney Pills gave instant relief and renewed vigor. Foster-Milburn Co. promotes Donn's Kidney Pills with home endorsement.

Greencastle Donn

All Things to Them That Wait

A concise saying from Bruyere on patience and deliberate progress. It contrasts long journeys with distant honors, praising steady preparation and self discipline as the path to achievement.

Bruyere

Tam the mother of eighteen chil dren and have the praise of doing more work than any young women in my town

Mrs C J Martin of Boone Mill Virginia credits Chamberlains Tablets with curing long stomach trouble after five years of suffering She says after taking three bottles she is now well weighs 168 pounds and can eat anything she wants and feels better than in ten years She offers to vouch for the claim locally and notes the tablets are sold by all dealers

Tam C. J. Martin Boone Mill

Patent Of Merit For Curved Shoulder Tooth Wheel Hammer

A Washington man patents a hammer carrying a curved shoulder and an eccentrically mounted toothed wheel. An item notes advice about wrinkles and a tea ad claims Tea drives cares away. Sold by Owl Dru store.

Washington Hollister The Owl Dru

The Mean Man Dialogue at Masked Ball

A witty exchange centers on a man admitting flirting with his wife all evening at a masked ball. He explains she was agreeable, making it hard to tell who she truly was, highlighting social farce and mistaken identity.

Camberlain's Tablets Offered For Sale By Dealers

Despondency often stems from indigestion and constipation and quickly disappears when Camberlain's Tablets are taken. For sale by all dealers.

Camberlain

Sad Case. Knickerbocker Candidate Calls Out Lies

In a terse exchange, Knickerbocker asserts the candidate was rattled after accusing opponents of lying and kissing the rival. The remark targets the candidate’s composure and campaign tensions during a heated exchange.

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Recalled By Tipton Caller

Mrs Sarah E. Duncan of Tipton Iowa reports her son suffered a severe winter cold with a dreadful cough. One bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy stopped the cough and cured the cold completely, and it is offered for sale by all dealers.

Sarah E. Duncan Tipton Iowa

Value of Lettuce for Nerves and Insomnia

Lettuce is described as soothing to the nerves and beneficial for insomnia sufferers. The text presents lettuce as a remedy with calming properties and sleep aid potential.

Runaway Stars in the Great Bear and Pictor

A historic note describes a swiftly moving star in Ursa Major named 1830 Groombridge and cites Professor Newcomb’s remark on its immense velocity, along with Kapteyn’s discovery of another rapidly moving southern star in Pictor whose true speed awaits distance measurement.

Great Bear Newcomb Groombridge Kapteyn Constellation Pictor

Story of Three St Bernards Rescue Dogs

A Glasgow paper reports sorrow in Bruno Kronich’s home after three St Bernard dogs Dina Medea and Sonia aiding in rescues fell near Hochschneeberg. They were lost on a snow slope and later found alive at dawn, having struggled up a near vertical ice wall to reach Baumgartnerhaus.

Bruno Kronich Switzerland Glasgow Dina Medea Sonia Hochschneeberg Herminensteig Baumgartnerhaus

Film-Flam Trick Nets Clerk Five Dollar Soap Heist

A grocer’s clerk newly employed at an uptown drug store falls for a five cent soap scam. A stranger buys the soap with a ten dollar bill, receives a five dollar bill and four ones plus 95 cents in coins as change, then adds a dollar on top. The thief later returns the ten dollar note and keeps the five dollar bill and the small change, leaving with a profit of a five dollar bill, 95 cents in change and the soap.

Philadelphia

Sign Falls On Maine Speakeasy Drunkard

A disheveled man exits a Maine speakeasy and collapses on the sidewalk then snores as bystanders note the sign is fallen. A passerby calls Frank, the joint’s proprietor, who emerges and greets Hud as he explains the fallen sign.

Maine Frank Hud Everybody's Magazine

A 735 Pound Sturgeon Caught by Rhodesia

A female sturgeon weighing 725 pounds and measuring 11 feet 4 inches long with a 5 foot 4 inch girth was caught by the steam trawler Rhodesia on Sunday about 280 miles northeast of the Nore lightship. The last similarly large sturgeon on record weighed 562 pounds in July 1905. Royal prerogative once claimed Thames sturgeon as sovereign delicacy.

Rhodesia Nore Thames London Bridge London Daily Mail

German Bass Voice Causes Noisy Sleep At Hotel

In a Brooklyn Life item a celebrated singer, Spitzler the greys, German basso, is confronted by a hotel manager over nightly snoring. The artist protests he does not know he snores and is told to refrain from singing at night.

Spitzler Greys Brooklyn Life

Hairbreadth Escapes Figure in Santiago Saga

In a vivid tale a speaker recalls perilous escapes in Santiago as wolves pursue him and his listener reacts with astonished relief. The scene centers on fear, pursuit, and a tense escape from danger.

Santiago Doncher Know

Gold Ore Foundation Builds Colorado Bank Tower

A seven story Exchange National Bank Building in Colorado Springs uses gold ore as a major foundation component. The low value ore mixed with cement yields a strong durable concrete, sourced from Cripple Creek dumps at $1 to $8 per ton, with total gold value estimated around $2,000.

Colorado Springs Col Exchange National Bank Bump Hill Cripple Creek Harper’s Weekly

Man of great business ability amid Adirondacks poverty

Lipincott's recounts a winter tale of a man famed for business sense yet lazy to work. Neighbors scraped together a charity supply of flour pork and wood for his family. He then hired others to cut the wood and settled payment with pork and flour, displaying his knack for managing scarce aid.

Adirondacks Lippincott's

Topeka Teacher Recites Witty Exam Answers

Miss Clara Evelyn M Hugh reads at a teachers meeting from a collected set of quaint exam answers. Highlights include A blizzard is the inside of a lie and The equator is a menagerie lion running round the earth.

Clara Evelyn M'Hugh Topeka Miss M'Hugh Indianapolis News

Beaten Man Refused Food Then Told to Shovel Ashes

A large healthy man at a doorway asked for a bite to eat. He said he had the ague and his hand was too weak to pick up a stick. The mistress sent him to the back yard to shake ashes as a task.

Forest recovery efforts gain support from American educators in China

Photographs of Chinese landscapes show soil denudation and agricultural ruin due to deforestation, influencing American sympathy for scientific forestry. Now American educators in China receive ammunition from this country for a campaign to restore forests and fertile soil where treeless wastes exist.

China Boston Herald

A Sacred Trust by Wendell Phillipe

A reflective remark on leadership and virtue describing power and influence as trusts to serve one’s era. The author suggests advancing others beyond mere service to a higher level through moral responsibility and character.

Wendell Phillipe

A Needless Warning in a Dallas News Exchange

A quip notes that a hearty back slap may precede a light touch, illustrating wary humor about friendly gestures. The Dallas News column uses a sharp, concise line to warn readers of hidden motives in casual greetings.

Dallas News

Natural Bridge restores landmark with sign dispute

Virginia resort renews a small natural bridge after a winter storm. Builders John J. Simmons and Company erected a sign reading NATURAL BRIDGE, which provoked a sharp rebuke from a passerby and a demand for propriety on the boardwalk.

Virginia John J. Simmons and Company

A Job's Comforter

A friend visits the invalid patient Bid cheerfully offers flabrs and jokes about recovering, noting the neat room and recalling his own days wheezing up stairs to a coffin. The dialogue preserves a rustic voice and hopeful tone.

Bill Andy

Success and Failure in Self Growth and Ambition

The passage urges action and belief in self to achieve growth and fortune. It contrasts poverty with ignorance of strength, and avarice with fullness of knowledge, urging continuous expansion of mind and capability. It asserts happiness comes from adapting to reality and bricks of effort.

Louisiana Turns from Cotton to Cane

Col. J. S. Aubrey of Avoyelles parish reports a strong move by planters to switch from cotton to sugar cane due to boll weevil losses. He notes cane will be shipped to outside mills for now, with local refineries planned later, and predicts the coming season could mark Louisiana’s largest sugar production.

Louisiana Col. J. S. Aubrey Avoyelles Parish

I Like Chicken But Not the Feathers Joke

A crowded Saturday New York Press cartoon caption depicts a man in a subway car appalled by a woman in a dramatic feathered headpiece. He tells her, I like chicken, but not the feathers, after a feathered fringe touches his lips.

Solomon New York Press

Listening to Music Sparks Gentle Confrontation at Concert

A young man whispering loudly to his female companion at a symphony concert irritated several neighbors. He urged her to close her eyes to “hear how lovely it sounds,” prompting a grave retort about listening with one’s mouth shut.

Eaming New York Press

Cursory remarks recalled in Chicago record item

A Chicago Record-Herald excerpt shows Eddie defining cursory as used with public speaking and recalls a family mishap. The tale notes Eddie's line about his father bumping his head after a ladder fall and making a few cursory remarks.

Eddie Chicago Record-Herald

Flying club facilities advertised by Surrey hotel keeper

An enterprising Surrey hotel keeper posts a large signboard announcing his house and grounds are ready for aerial voyagers. A splendid garage for flying machines is available and flying men will have a special clubroom. Repairs and gasoline supply will be promptly provided.

Surrey London Chronicle

Irish vicar seeks organist offered by a versatile applicant

A vicar advertised for an organist and music teacher. A reply offered services from a person who has been both organist and music teacher for several years, highlighting versatility for either gender.

A Happier Lot Showcases Jamie and Family Dinner

Jamie pesters his father for a second helping of preserves. The father recalls his own boyhood rule of one helping and questions if Jamie is glad to live with them now. The Delineator offers a light domestic moment from a family vignette.

Jamie

The Use of Health

A humorous line from The Use of Health raises the old quip about recovering strength by eating foods that do not agree with the patient. The remark reflects lighthearted clinical wit within medical discourse.

Swedish Handicrafts and Scepticism in Australia

Swedish handicrafts sustain peasant weaving lace work brass and pottery with local patterns. Sweden has few textile factories and emphasizes traditional crafts to avoid market shocks. Melba describes Australians as skeptical Westerners. A Ballarat bishop anecdote shows local humor at a hotel search.

Sweden Melba Australia Ballarat Balarat

Dramatic Realism and a Fallen Act in a Club Scene

Augustus Thomas taunts newcomers as a Boston critic spots a villainous actor. The critic praises the performer’s stark realism and notes a week after the production his wife filed for separation.

Augustus Thomas Boston New York Thomas Harper's Weekly

Marvel’s view on saving vs modern commercial spirit

A West youth visited the aged author of Reveries of a Bachelor in New England. The poet planned to drop poetry for magazine love stories to save money, but Marvel frowned saying saving is depriving yourself of things you won’t want forty years hence.

Marvel New England Washington Star

Dancer Genee Tells Luncheon of Powder Conventions

Genee, famed dancer, at a ladies luncheon praised American women for not overusing powder as abroad. She cited a London anecdote about mistaken kisses, noting it shows a different brand of powder.

Mile. Genee London Philadelphia Ledger

Five stories exist in variations say the old claim

A Boston Herald quote recalls Gen Taylor noting the value lies in the edition not the tale. The remark suggests that all stories are variations of five original plots, a longtime belief referenced by a veteran raconteur.

Gen. Taylor Boston Herald

Principal Dr Story Visits Country Holiday

Glasgow University’s late principal Dr Story met the district minister while on holiday. The minister invited him to relieve him for a day, to which Story replied he could not promise to relieve the minister but might relieve the congregation.

Dr. Story Glasgow University Hullo

Amber Fossil Resin From Baltic Shores

Amber is a fossilized vegetable resin found abundantly along the Baltic coast between Koenigsberg and Memel. It likely derives from extinct coniferous trees and becomes negatively electrified when rubbed, showing a notable electric property.

Baltic Sea Koenigsberg Meme

Women In Telephone Service In British System

About one third of the 18 000 employees in the British telephone service are women. Like liquid electricity Hollister's Ro M Ten is what every one needs for. Per sale by the drug store.

Hollister Ty Drug Store Rocky Mountain

Baby thought and love that endures beyond life

A reflective note speaks of love that cannot die, claiming it is the present He gives to everybody. The piece frames love as a timeless gift accessible to all readers regardless of circumstance.

University Housing Rules and Application Notice

All persons wishing to rent rooms to young lady students must file applications in the President’s office with a signed pledge to observe dormitory regulations. Blank applications will be forwarded upon request. A stray ad line mentions a beauty product and a sale by an unidentified seller.

Notice to Non-Residents Quiet Title Suit in Indiana

The Putnam Circuit Court in Indiana issues a notice to non residents defendants in a quiet title suit brought by John J. C. Clay et al. The defendants must appear by November 8, 1913, at Greencastle to answer the complaint, or the case will proceed in their absence. Attorneys Tay and Murphy filed the complaint.

Putnam Circuit Court John J. C. Clay Rehard Biddle Tay & Murphy Putnam County Indiana Richard Middle Catherine EB. Biddle Isaac Bronson Frederick Tronser James McMurry Levonn McMurry John Case Juli Case Isom Silvey Mary Jane Silves William J. Silvey Mary BM. Silvey Lewis J. Silvey Charles W. Silvey George M. Silvey Samuel B. Siive John J. Silvey Isaac M. Silvey Keward Silvey John D. Sage Union Central Life Insurance Co Cycinnati Ohio Wm. R. Case Mary Case State of Indi Putnam Greencastle Insala

Trustee of Madison Township Notice

Resident states intent to be at home office each Wednesday and Saturday to transact trustee business for Madison Township.

Madison Township Will Strure Mill Creek Township Ernest Kivett Jackson Township Benjamin Walls Jefferson Township Stringer Bainbridge oMee D. B. Atcheson Floyd Township Fred Todd Marlon Township Marion Townshin Fillmore

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