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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1919
Page
4
A new tree producing soap from its fruit is reported from abroad. The soapberry tree, common in Japan China and India, yields 50 to 200 pounds of fruit per season. The fruit pulp is dark and the kernel oily, with saponaceous ingredient extractable by water or alcohol. Production costs are said to be small.
Readable text notes pet dogs wearing new georgies and tailor made blankets for touring in a modern fashion trend. The article highlights humorous outfits for dogs during car trips and mentions the growing craze among owners to dress pets for travel.
A discussion of Chinese etiquette notes how form often supplants substance in nine of ten cases. Messieurs exchange evasive phrases, praising others while belittling themselves, and misunderstandings arise from rigid ceremonial language and gracious host hospitality.
A New York Herald report claims that desk orientation affects performance with west facing desks boosting output and south facing ones reducing capability by about a third. The sauvant cites personal experiments and predicts compass use will become essential for workers and travelers.
The Vienna Academy of Sciences is collecting phonographs of languages and dialects for linguistic study. Its expeditions hunt voices from diverse peoples and animals, with recordings already including gypsy and Arabian songs, Native American airs, and idioms of various groups.
Tests in France show water can be sterilized with ozone at about 1.5 cents per 1000 gallons when done on a large scale, offering a cheap purification method.
An essay from the Montgomery Advertiser muses on why trees grow differently though fed similarly. It notes acorns to giants, wood variety, and unseen natural processes that nourish roots, trunks, and leaves, claiming life and nature remain enduring mysteries beyond human understanding.
A Southern business man introduces a chair arm advertising frame for public seats at stations parks and steamboats. The hinged lid frame holds interchangeable cards protected by glass and designed for easy updating during leisure moments when readers peruse the promos.
Bull fighting in Spain draws patrons as about twelve thousand bulls are killed yearly in 2 500 fights. Bulls are raised on specialized ranches, with the Duke of Veragua’s Andalusian estate among the largest. Bulls are smaller, more combative, and costlier to maintain than horses which are cheap and often maimed in the ring.
Ether and ether and carbolic effects on plants produce stimulation rather than sleep. Denmark and Germany use these drugs to force flowers in rooms and glasshouses to bloom out of season. Reported results are described as marvellous.
A tale from Koreva centers on Koregan's Wonderful Cell a great bell named the bell with the wall of a child in its voice a live infant sacrificed to cast the metal the bell allegedly carries a child's wail in its tone and monarchs sought magicians to fix its omen.
In El Cobre Cuba copper mines abandoned for more than thirty years due to the 1868 insurrection were repumped after the Spanish American War. In a shaft opened by an American company an iron pickaxe and crowbars were discovered with all the metal transformed into copper, a curious natural alloying outcome.
A cobbler in Yorkshire sends a bill to Squire Knowle in Bristol. The text lists services like heel tapping binding and stitching, with entries for maids and masters, reflecting a repaired family repair job and associated charges.
Eskimos possess exceptionally clean and healthy teeth due to their tough diet. Long mastication before swallowing cleans and polishes teeth and helps remove germs, leaving few tooth defects.
A divining rod is a forked rod made of witch hazel, iron, or brass and copper used by folk to supposedly detect water, minerals, or metals underground. Superstition holds the rod dips when placed over the sought spot.
A Maine widow, left with nothing, learned fly making to support herself. She studies fish behavior and now supplies artificial flies that imitate what trout prefer each week during the season.
A comic exchange unfolds as a boarder jokes about crafting an ode to the landlady while a half headed bachelor quips about overlooking prunes, framing a lighthearted domestic vignette.
John D. Rockefeller placed a record order with a Tarrytown dealer for 10,000 evergreen trees to be planted on his Poeanties Hills estate. Reportedly the largest single order of its kind.
Falkland Island farmers publish rewards for destroying wild geese that proliferate and threaten sheep subsistence as the birds multiply.
Joseph Lafle of Benson Vermont reports a five legged calf born June 2 that is thrifty. He has been offered one hundred fifty dollars for the calf and its mother.
A World s Work excerpt recounts Gen Perez commanding liberal forces at Call in Colombia. Ordered to attack at dawn he delays for milk say the cafe could not be brewed without milk. With no milk available he refuses to march and the liberals escape while he awaits his cafe du lait.
Inventor M Helt unveils a self registering compass that records direction every minute. The card moves on a steel pivot over an agate, with mercury completing the electrical circuit for automatic logging.
A short remark on a Korean guide post seen by travelers on public highways. It mentions the post as a travel aid and as a charm to frighten away evil spirits believed to swarm the country.
Isolated 102 foot graystone beacon on a submerged pinnacle in Lake Superior marks a dangerous shoal. The distant site near Marquette is visible only to passing ships and is serviced by keepers who endure perilous resupply and rough seas. The cone rises above water with a dense fog warning system and a telegraph whistle.
An attached reclining bed exerciser uses two upright posts on the side rails and adjustable crossbars with elastic cords to train arms and chest. By moving the device along the bed, users can perform arm or leg work without fatigue or excessive heart strain.
Luther King, inmate at Soldiers' Howe in Rosebury Oregon, claims a rattlesnake bite in Idaho on August 7, 1873. Since 1894 a snake form appears under his skin each August, crawling up to the knee before vanishing. His leg becomes cold and numb, he is blind during the period August 1–10, and he cannot eat for a month.
In parts of West Africa girls are betrothed at birth to a slightly older baby boy and marry at twenty. They know of another path to a husband and are content. Wives are seen as obedient and the marriages typically succeed.
An article describes strict gender norms in Korea where women remain silent to preserve caste. It notes brides often speak minimally, enduring taunts, with upper class wives sometimes not hearing their husbands or seeing their father in law for years after marriage.
A statement notes that some profits may carry disrepute or ethical concerns in various countries, highlighting debates on fairness and accountability in global business.
A compact look at how beard styles and hair length shifted across English history. Spies under Harold note Norman invaders wore shaven faces, while long hair and beards became markers of identity. Stow, Henry VIII era, and Wulstan reflect debates on morality and custom. The closing line mentions distant objects seen by starlight in Zy inland.
The piece notes Lyell's estimate of a 36 000 year timespan to carve the seven mile gorge and traces Niagara's changing profile through surveys from 1812 onward. It explains the erosion mechanics of the falls, the rock layers involved, and events like Table Rock's 1850 collapse, with references to Maury and Gilbert.
The article states Niagara's birth ends the tertiary and begins the centennary era, noting debate over pre glacial humans. It cites paleo lithic implements in glacial gravels, places Niagara gorge at roughly 20 000 to 25 000 years ago, and estimates bank erosion since exposure at about 610 cubic yards per mile with a 10 000 year timescale for full change.
A fragment describes shooting culture with luxuries and leisure. It notes leaders arrange shoots, birds are driven, meals and wine are abundant, and travelers return home by motor after the outing.
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