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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1908
Page
5
The county reports an increase of eighty nine pupils in the school census over 1907 after two weeks of enumeration across all townships and corporations including Greensburg. County Board of Education meeting notes the year over year rise with detailed township figures.
A rustic medley notes farmers generosity, timely settlements, and weather rhythms. It jokes about middlemen, family burdens, and a Tennessee farmer with many dogs. It claims American hens crackle for all and shipped eggs worth a million dollars to Cuba and moscuit to England.
Mr Norman R Coulter of San Francisco endorses Electric Bitters as a universal tonic. He says it corrects stomach liver and kidney disorders promptly and builds up the system. Henry & Co. drug store offers it at 50 cents.
Home Chart argues a woman who neglects dressing is unsuitable for a poor man. She would require an unlimited dress allowance and a maid. If she struggled with clothes before marriage, she would waste housekeeping stores after marriage, wasting Brom.
Miss O Z Bond recounts Thomas Sharpe Spencer, famed for building a silver gray tree home in Cumberland County after 1776. He shared half a long hunting knife with John Halliday, then lived a year in a hollow sycamore before the tree remained a landmark of pioneer growth. The narrative bridges to a London Leader excerpt on Chinese labor and seafaring hires with humorous misreadings.
Miss Cox catalogs 318 variants of the Cinderella tale noting differences such as absence of glass slippers and fairy godmothers often appearing as beasts. An ancient Malagasy version features the youngest sister aided by a rat and a final gift of golden slippers ending in triumphant marriage while the sisters become lizards.
In London Docklands the Board of Trade office handles a ship’s crew agreement. A seasoned captain and a sharp official oversee a crowd of thirty Chinese sailors from Limehouse opium dens, with a few whites for appearances. The captain quietly abets the process as documents are readied for the first hand.
Sanderson visits Simpkins and is shown a family album. Simpkins identifies relatives including his wife’s second cousin’s Aunt Susan and his own youthful self. The conversation reaches a jolt when Sanderson learns Simpkins’ wife is not widow, and the portrait is revealed to be Simpkins at age twenty.
A fragment from Robert Louis Stevenson urges honesty kindness modest living and self respect. It contrasts with a child’s exchange in London Scraps where a boy rushes home to avoid punishment from his father, highlighting domestic discipline and neighborhood chatter.
A fragment from a humor page recounts a person who disturbed a congregation last Sunday by coughing and is urged to buy Foley's Honey and Tar. The piece mixes jokes about printers and a farmer with Irish and Yankee characters and a Rocky Mountains echo anecdote.
The poem by Clara Shadday from Versailles, published in the Versailles Republican, describes an April evening when the moon stars and violet light create a warm spell that wraps around the reader. The verses evoke quiet skies dew and sunset colors as night approaches.
An honored citizen of this town suffered a severe bout of dysentery and recovered after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A Wolcott Vermont druggist says the remedy cured him quickly, and Batterton's drug store advertises that it is in stock.
A reflective note on personal integrity asserting peace comes when one acts rightly as judged by self, even if others label it wrong. The statement frames moral confidence as a guide to interpersonal harmony and inner calm.
Jacob Black of Letts, a veteran horseman, has added two valuable horses to his breeding stables for the 1908 season. The release notes the pedigree and expected impact on racing and breeding programs.
A three year old roan trotting stallion named Greatland Jay, 14 hands, 1100 pounds, by Jay Bird out of Lizzie dam, registered in the American Trotting Record. Bred by William Adams of Cynthiana Kentucky, bought by Mr. Black for a handsome figure. Terms 15 dollars to insure.
Prince McCord 511 a fine young imported jack nearly 15 hands high and of splendid form. This jack was sired by Dr. McCord and is a half brother of General Wood 0 the champion jack of the United States. Bred by JF Cook & Co at Lexington Kentucky. 10 to closure.
Ellert a 16 hand black stallion, 1410 pounds, proven German sire quality. Dam Dewey Was by Young Merry Tom, with Bilert 1208 and 727 lineage. Located stables one-half mile north of old Letts Corner, Decatur County. admission by insured price and inspection invited.
Satan’s colts praised as superior, with Madison Square Garden and state fair show success. The Black Percheron Stallion Park 2279, foaled 189%, weighs 800 pounds, and promises strong draft quality for breeders. Also notes Decoration and other stock, fees to insure a living colt, and owner James B. Clark Greensburg Indiana.
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