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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1919
Page
3
In the County Calendar Henry Reach Needham explains that mosquitoes hatch from eggs in water. Oil on a pool surface blocks larva access to air, causing wrigglers to drown, thus reducing the mosquito population.
A description of cobble coasting on Madeira an island of Portugal in the Atlantic off Morocco. The text explains that steep cobble streets provide a thrilling slide similar to snow or ice, with ten minutes of breathless speed before the ride ends.
The article surveys beliefs from different cultures. It notes Chinaman housing choices, Egyptian baptism customs for babies, Siamese sacred white animals including elephants, and European ideas linking stock luck to birds and clothing in high places.
A commercial traveler stranded in a North of Ireland town is dried by the landlady who offers a strange remedy. After a storm drenches him, she returns with a large tub and places it on his chest saying to shout when the tub is full.
Stark Apples are now on fall sale at Christies as advertised by See Wetz. Limited stock available for shoppers this season.
The Street Called Straight in Damascus is described as the city’s oldest main thoroughfare, famed for its historic past and diverse visitors. The article notes its current, narrowed grandeur and the house of Ananias linked to Paul’s conversion, now a Latin chapel with underground crypt services. It also mentions a pilot night landing aid using a bulb on a wire to signal proximity to the ground for aviators.
Five room bungalow for sale by Fouts Bros Realty. Money to loan on second mortgages. Theodore Crawley contact. Cook wanted at Vermillion Restaurant. Apples available fall and winter. Help wanted at American Zine Products and Terre Haute Vitrified Brick Plant with good wages piece work apply at plant or Paris Car Line. Farm near Fillmore Indiana 84 acre with 40 tons of silage, possession now. Lost ladies Hudson Seal neck piece near Greencastle or Plainfield Pike, reward offered. Canday at Phi Psi house.
Short help wanted notices announce openings for a night telephone operator at Greencastle Telephone Company and a boy needed at Leuteke Bakery and an auto garage. Other ads offer wood, abstracts, and a typewriter for sale.
A courtroom exchange reveals a prisoner questioned as MU on horse theft becomes uncertain after a lawyer’s cross-examination. The witness reverses stance, admitting possible involvement in the crime.
A midshipman recounts a ghostly encounter aboard the Palimure brig in the West Indies. The quartermaster Mordel obsessively catalogues vessel histories, and a spectral figure appears during a battle-like event on October 31 1858, after which Mordel disappears overboard and is never found. The narrator notes the entry would mirror a logbook if officers welcomed such events.
A brief, understated verse notes a man catching a cold and dying, with neighbors gathering around his bed to mourn. The poem emphasizes somber reflection and communal sorrow over the simple fatal outcome.
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