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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1920
Page
3
Government figures show two rats breeding for three years yield 359 709 482 individual rats. Act at first sign of rats, use RAT SNAP exterminator sold by John Cook & Son, J Sudranski & Co., R. P. Mullins with guaranteed results.
A collage of items lists farm hands wanted and available help at multiple local employers including Herald Office and Grand Central Hotel. It also notes rentals, sales, lost and found, an auction of household goods, and a farm hand position in Kansas with a $50 monthly wage.
Walter Mason reflects on youthful dreams of piracy and baseball stardom, contrasting imagined glory with a humbling later life tending alleys. He recalls parents’ discipline, shifts toward practical work, and the persistent pull of grand schemes despite daily reality.
A bank president counsels a pale anxious assistant cashier who fears a moral slip. The leader assigns daily reports and a country club outlet to diffuse the man’s narrowed focus, turning weakness into constructive self mastery and urging one day at a time progress.
The late John Allen of Farmington Maine known for sharp wit slips on ice in town. A nearby Methodist minister helps him up and quips about sinners on slippery ground. Allen responds with a clever retort about how they do it.
A United States army officer devised a simple shower bath without plumbing. His device uses a perforated pail hung in a convenient spot with a plug at the bottom to open a valve and let water flow.
In a sea cliff storm tale, a man named I. climbs Satan's Needles to save Vinall after a perilous fall. He retrieves letters from Vinall to Rupert Marion and chooses to destroy them, believing the act will spare Alice, Rupert, and their reputation, while risking his own life.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, returning with an empty bag from a shoot, offered to buy a shot at a pond full of ducks. A farmer on a rail quoted half a sovereign. Sheridan paid and fired, hitting a dozen birds, then joked the deal might be poor as the birds belonged to someone else.
In Little Rock two Black men argued and one swung a wagon spoke at the other causing a head injury. The struck man joked about thick hair as a life saving jailhouse warning, noting a possible heavy fine and the lack of justice if not for his own dense scalp.
In a small Alabama town a woman waits at a washerwoman’s cabin and encounters a woolly head under a bed. Aunt Betsy explains the child has no name yet because her husband used up all the good names, delaying naming until a child dies for him to claim one.
Mrs. Morgan seeks a mountains or seashore break for health as her husband agrees with the doctor's plan. The physician tells Mr. Morgan he is run down and needs baths, fresh air, cooling clothes, and the wife should go to the sea, motor trips, and new summer gowns.
A shoemaker asks how the explorer found boots. The explorer replies the boots are the best he ever tasted, linking footwear to a polar journey in a compact, witty exchange.
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