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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
2
The Greensburg Standard from Greensburg Indiana dated Friday December 22 1905 lists subscription terms with one year in the county and one year out of the county. Editor paid in advance one dollar fifty cents.
Henry Boles born December 24 1522 on the old Marshall Hamilton farm five miles east of Greensburg. He is 83 and recalls a log house snow drifted across it. He witnessed forests become farms and lives through Civil War reverses. He built a fortune in trade with sons Landis and Scott, later ran a large business with Scott until five years ago. He remained active in church, schools, and city affairs, a longtime subscriber to The Standard. Christmas Day family gathering marks his anniversary.
The article notes that men aged eighty five and ninety are lean yet well fed, with a diet that can cause occasional indigestion. It recommends Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to cleanse and invigorate the stomach and liver, claiming no reason the average man should not live to old age. For sale at Batterton's drugstore.
In early oil country Pennsylvania, a drunken village constable and companions force a minister to draft a pledge during a rude midnight visit. The sheriff and a comic trio request prayers and payment, while three Texas ministers encounter a tiny jinny and a comic rider who urges marriage to a squaw, prompting the doctors exasperated exit.
A rough Western dialogue centers on Eldorado and Indua Territory as men debate marrying a Squaw for land. Dr Sevier boasts of being a doctor, while others mock the idea, question cultivation, and joke about wives and labor, echoing frontier stereotypes amid playful banter.
An aged jeweler cites two historic theft cases from jewelers, noting a habit of pilfering gold filings. He recalls a Newark shop tale of a young craftsman who hid gold in his hair and wash water, then a bench talker who equated brass and gold filings to deceive foremen.
Italy ships 480 million dozen eggs abroad each year, highlighting a robust poultry and farming sector. The high volume underscores the nation’s export capacity and demand for Italian eggs in international markets.
The article outlines the rise of the people's choruses as modern successors to old time singing schools. It notes 400 to 500 voices in Boston and New York classes led by Frank Damrosch and Samuel W. Cole. Clerks, shop workers, and students join Sundays to study world music, with some members later pursuing conservatory studies or church choir roles.
A two headed turtle, about the size of a silver dollar, is in captivity in Washington. Brought from Virginia by a hunter, it is kept by a local bird fancier and eats with both heads while each head seems indifferent to the other. The creature has one tail and four sets of limbs.
The Italian government prints unique regiment stamps for soldiers use. Designs vary widely from colonel portraits to rifles and royal arms. Ivrea, Milza, and the Twenty second cavalry feature town views, councils, and regimental mottos.
Archaeologists uncover a surviving fragment of the monastery once thought demolished in Tours. The discovery shows Joan of Arc’s lodging with Dame Pleau or Blot and her time at the Augustinian chapel now exposed beneath centuries of plaster.
A Paris doctor offers a winter remedy for chilblains: swap the irritated part, have a friend stamp on the foot welt for fifteen minutes, then switch and repeat. The technique aims to distract pain and cure the chilblains by alternating feet during the procedure.
A Baltimore American item recalls a quarrelsome mother demanding her son William be restored to his class. The next day William presents a note to the teacher reading Please resent this Bill promptly, highlighting a humorous parent teacher misunderstanding.
The Chicago Tribune reports the scheduled prize fight was stopped when the referee halted proceedings after discovering that one contestant was an old college football player posing as a boxer. The match was canceled amid the controversy.
A light exchange between Advice and Miss Pepprey about facial hair, with a witty remark urging persistence to grow a Vandyke beard before conceding to shaving. The Catholic Standard and Times captures the playful banter as a brief social aside.
A brief exchange shows First Hen, Mrs. Farmer, and Second Hen discussing hurt feelings. The Second Hen questions how the hurt occurred and recalls Mrs. Farmer visiting with another woman and suggesting she might have fared better with an incubator.
Miss Nellie Redington spends the week with relatives at Anderson. Mrs. Lou Thomson arrives from Palo Alto for extended visits with Henry Thomson and kin. A group traveled to Indianapolis for the Republican love feast accompanied by A. M. J. Willoughby Web Woodfill John Batterton Frank Ryan and Charlie White.
Grover Vanderbur and Effie E Taylor wedged among a list of marriages. Horace Skillman and Della Reed, Walter Miner and Nora Bevis, Aaron Robbins and Emma Jackson, Charles Knarr and Edith Hunter, Wm Dopes and Bessie Nichols, Wm Heldtor and Mary Black, Clarence Baker and Jessie Deupree, Allen Barnes and Clara McGuire, Golden Hill and Cleo Parker, Oscar Elmore and Blanch McLain, Frank Holland and Mary Shine, Frank Pulse and Flora Mckee.
Elk lodge opens the new year with an elaborate Greensburg social at 2 p.m. in the Grover block quarters. Guests enjoy dancing until six, a sumptuous multi course dinner follows, then dancing resumes for seven hours. Parlors and reception rooms are richly decorated as time and money are spent to make it a premier swell in Greensburg.
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