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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
2
A street scene shows a four or five year old boy crying loudly as shoppers watch. A newsboy gives the boy a banana to quiet him, and the mother’s distress is eased in moments. The column then recounts tenth century prices, noting values for horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, slaves, and grain across Athelstane and Norman periods.
The article describes how men accompany women on public streets in various countries. It notes Americans and Britons favor the pavement side toward the street to protect ladies garments from mud and rain. It mentions differing customs in crowded streets and a German practice of keeping consistently on the same side of the lady regardless of street position.
A farmer’s wife bought kerosene mislabeled as fuel containing 21 percent gasoline. When used to start a fire, she died and her three children were badly injured. The husband sued. jurors awarded $25 for the wife and $299.71 per child. The defendants appealed. the appellate court affirmed.
A satirical critique lists extreme dieting and ritualized self care practices. The piece mocks fanatical health regimes urging minimal meals, cold baths, constant reading, and obsessive self analysis while quipping about excessive exercise equipment and coercive dieting demands.
An internationally famous artist spoke with a bright Swedish girl while he drew her. He asked about school and future plans. The girl replied she would become a school teacher if she has sense, otherwise she would paint pictures like the artist.
A magazine writer returns late to find his partner awake and demanding content. He offers a 1 200 word story as his usual answer, a response driven by habit more than invention.
An English officer challenged General Israel Putnam. Putnam appeared calmly smoking beside an open powder keg. He lit a match and smoked as the keg proved to hold only onions with a powder dusting, prompting the Englishman to retreat.
The piece surveys historical and religious zealotry as drivers of book burning. It cites Puritans burning monasteries, Cromwell’s Oxford library loss, and parallels with revolutions and inquisitions in Spain and France. It notes crusaders and current attacks on nonconformist texts, framing suppression as a recurring pattern.
The piece from Youth's Companion extols using the voice in its lowest comfortable key to calm nerves, reduce stuttering, and quiet restless or weeping behavior. It notes that deep tones and slow breathing foster self-control and poise in challenging conversations and ordinary speech.
In the Smithsonian Institution Washington a bright Children’s Room displays natural objects to fascinate youths. Exhibits include mineral wool flexible sandstone landscape marbles Great Mogul model largest diamond and largest lump of gold. Also glove and finger sponges Venus flower basket shells iridescent butterflies and walking leaves night hawk crown creepers walking stick.
A canny grocer miscounts a customer by giving seven eggs when six were ordered, counting on the buyer’s belief that six are fresh and one dubious can be ignored, a shrewd display of reading human nature.
The article describes cheering in the British House of Commons as a measured science. It outlines various tones from hearty to subdued to ironical and sarcastic, noting how chorus cheers reflect temper, agreement and opposition, with sarcasm often used to disrupt or puncture arguments.
Neighbour the Roper River aboriginal receives the Albert medal for gallantry after saving trooper Johns from drowning during a flood crossing at Wilton River on February 1 1911. Johns was knocked from his horse and pulled downstream. Neighbour risked his life to reach and rescue him. The London Gazette records the honor as conferred by the king.
A three year old on Twenty fourth street laments she never received a present when her name is called in Sunday school. In a Sunbeam class Mrs Thomas R Marshall tests retention by asking about last week's lesson on King David, and a child recalls a boy who killed the janitor.
A cat sunning on a store platform in Barclay Street woke and lay in the street as a string of wagons and trucks passed nearby without striking it. A passerby threw a banana peel, waking the cat and sending it to safety, remarking that the animal has nine lives and eight near misses.
Two motorcyclists, Mr and Mrs Macdonald, a magistrate at Mzimba, were chased for five miles by two lions returning from the Zomba coronation ceremonies in Central Africa. The lions showed no fear of engine noise and pursued with evident intent to kill. The riders outdistanced the predators and arrived home safely, though shaken.
A Ringling clown in a padroom recalls a city visitor following a red painted US mail wagon he mistook for a circus wagon. The wagon led to a post office and unloading of sacks, prompting the clown to remark about catching “varmints” from the sacks.
A map and plans for a proposed bridge to Oakland have been filed with San Francisco's board of supervisors. The roadway would rise 150 feet above the water, hang from ten piers, form eight arches, and stretch 17 840 feet in sections of 2 230 feet. Four thousand feet would rest on Yerba Buena island, utilizing the island as a division. The San Francisco approach would start at Telegraph Hill, kept by the government for a light station.
A tale where a smooth con man pretends to have a million that earns no income. Colleges rush to grant degrees. He then uses the funds to construct a glue factory.
In Essex county southern section, new road superintendents end walking time, delaying pay for the journey to work. The policy affects able bodied men who live far from sites and must walk long distances to start and end their shifts. Workers voice discontent as state tries to save costs on road projects.
A Paris painter described how women cover their heads with elaborate accessories at night. An actress known for dramatic headpieces sat in the audience wearing a gold and white cap with a towering black aigrette. The remark hints at future fashion toward minimal hair adornment.
Mrs. Josephine Corless Preston of Walla Walla seeks the Republican nomination for state superintendent of public instruction. A Minnesota native, she has four years as county school superintendent and two as assistant, with a long career as a teacher and education leader.
A firm of Ohio monument builders announces arrival in Greensburg after a Decatur county can vass. The team led by a 30 year veteran architect and Al Tebbe announces new granite lettering and compressed air machinery, offering beauti ful enduring materials and full customer satisfaction. They invite citizens to visit the showroom in the former A H Dowden space on Broadway near the court house.
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