30 Dec 1915
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Newspaper
Greensburg New Era
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1915
Page
1
Drills into piles link to constipation, arguing most cases don’t require surgery and can improve with simple home methods. References Home Health Club address and reader questions about corns, bronchitis, and pneumonia with brief, practical remedies and health notes from a period publication.
A speaker explains that a visit means going to see relatives in the country, while a visitation means relatives come to see UA on their side. The distinction hinges on who initiates the call and location of the gathering.
A wild frog in a garden hosts a ten day crowd of frogs from nearby waterways. The assembled chorus and soloists croak through a wakeful night vigil lasting ten days and nights. Theoriginal frog remains after the visitors depart, ending the event as a curious, true tale.
The article reports Prof. T. J. J. Lee of the U S Navy Mare Island Observatory has announced a new gravitation theory claiming to reveal the causes of this fundamental force. It discusses time as divisions by day, year and lunar cycles, and muses on future mysteries of time and space.
The piece laments the death of Rev. J. W. Dashiel at seventy one and records several local holiday events. It notes Epworth League social conviviality, a small house fire at Mrs John Wilson, a tragic death of Miss Clairy Talkington, deaths of Mrs Moore and influenza gloom, plus town scenes of shopping and charity work and Mrs Perry hosting guests at Edinburg.
A cautious forecast states horse meat could soon be a lawful and acceptable article of diet. It notes the advantage that meat dealers will avoid selling tough rump as veal, promising tender meat for consumers.
The speaker muses on roles he desires from preacher to banker and farmer granger. He imagines the moral weight of pulpit life, the lure of wealth and coins, and the farmer’s bargaining power, ending with a self-deprecating note about feeble rhymes attributed to Walt Mason. The piece blends ambition with humor and social satire.
The Philadelphia Medical Society hears Dr. Frank Knowles warn that freckles and blonde skin are highly susceptible to skin cancer from sun exposure. Dr. Claude Wheeler agrees irritation can cause cancer but sees sunburn as an unlikely sole cause, noting cancer often appears after age 35 and may require more than sun exposure.
Minton and Miers, a young farmer couple, were married Sunday night and will reside on a farm near Milford.
Mrs. Edwin Beck died suddenly Sunday evening after a day spent with loved ones. Survived by husband two daughters Mrs. Charles Upson Cincinnati Mrs. Irvin Logan local son Edwin Cincinnati and grandchildren Roland Mildred Beck Harold William Upson. Funeral at Beck home Tuesday conducted by Rev Murphy and Rev Doddridge of First M E Church with burial in South Park.
Mrs Dyer Elder and Mrs Mollie Gaines with Clyde Willard and family spent the Christmas season with the Enos Porter family. Miss Mabel Barnes becomes deputy to County Clerk Willard Fraley while Ada Osting remains briefly. Postmaster Erdmann and newspaper friends light cigars, the Erdmann editors among them. Minary grandparents host a festive tree and six o clock dinner. Local mail workers holiday under a Christmas rush. Bertsch Floral Company reports brisk Christmas sales of flowers and greens. Dr W Wright recovering from breathing trouble.
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