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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1919
Page
2
E. B. Milburn owner of Guion Drug Store in Arkansas reports long time sales of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with perfect satisfaction. Advertisement asserts strong customer endorsement and trusted product choice.
The cartoon in The Barrier and a quote from the Kansas City Times ponders future gender barriers in presidential age limits. It cites the 45 year-old constitutional requirement and jokes that women may not reach it.
The notice details newspaper publication practices in Greencastle Indiana with rates for subscriptions and obituaries. It lists address at 17 and 19 South Jackson Street and charges for cards of thanks wards of thanks and poetry.
The defendant won a breach of promise action after claiming discovery that the fiancée had tuberculosis. The judge accepted this defence, noting the diagnosis after engagement as grounds for the defense.
A Charles ton News and Courter quip notes New York chatter claiming every Tammany man laughs when he gazes at the Statue of Liberty. The line reflects partisan wit about national symbols and city politics.
In May 1891 Willam Kryder found a turtle in the woods and carved his name and the date on its shell. Five years later he encountered the same turtle, noting it had hardly grown at all.
The New York Tribune describes London life for Americans arriving in summer. Cab whistles signal each house, luggage moves by cab or four wheeler, and runners carry goods. Washers are scarce, and laundries handle most dirty linen, raising costs for newcomers. Thursday half-holidays by shopkeepers and Tuesday butcher closures surprise newcomers.
In New Orleans graveyards, many believe killing a chameleon brings death within a year while crossing one’s hand is said to grant protection from witchcraft. The custom draws both locals and tourists, with charms and hoodoo beliefs tied to the green lizards found on tomb walls and graves.
A royal bodyguard in Siam consists of four hundred young women who enter service at thirteen and serve until twenty-five before moving to the reserve. They are trained in lance use and serve as elite protectors. Separately a 700 pound halibut was landed at an English fish market.
W. le Saunders of Chicago presents a device claimed to be perpetual motion. The diagram shows a wheel made entirely of glass with 112 hollow glass balls, illustrating the concept of an eternal motion mechanism.
An inventor explains a wheel balancing device with painted sixes and nines. The nines on the left offset the sixes on the right, starting and sustaining motion. The patent is granted as government approved. One unit reportedly ran 13 weeks, another in Chicago has run two months as a window attraction rather than a power source.
A woman claims Mayr's Wonderful Remedy cured her severe stomach pains after two years of misery with attacks every ten days. She states the simple preparation removes catarrhal mucus and inflammation in the intestinal tract and offers money back on one dose. Sold by druggists.
In court Judge Adams questions a witness who claims to know little about science and is called a plumber. Sir Richard Sankey estimates Ireland’s coal stock at 5 billion tons and proposes onsite coal to electricity conversion for local power. A boy named Grant watches a cook prepare a chicken and reports a feather mishap.
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