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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1908
Page
4
An advertisement discusses checking white lead quality by burning a pea sized sample on charcoal to see metallic lead forms. Pure white lead yields a globule of metal, while adulterated products leave residues. National Lead Company offers a free blowpipe and booklet featuring the Dutch Boy Painter as a purity guarantee.
A writer challenges the old hearth and home ideal and argues women should vote on educational and civic matters but not on military or heavy industry questions. She notes London’s two year gain of county council voting rights and urges expanded female participation in government and public duties.
The author contrasts American parenting with European authority, noting democracy fosters questions and independence in children while challenging parental authority. Education for parents and disciplined, timely correction of children are urged, valuing both love and fear when guiding juvenile behavior.
A writer laments what she calls useless girls and absent home life. She contrasts old fashioned mothers with present day women’s clubs offering private leisure and gossip, questioning women's roles and substitutes for traditional home duties.
A fragment recalls a moonlit memory where a woman teases a man about his swollen nose after a joke about a bite. The exchange mixes romance with humor and a lighthearted jab.
In Morocco near Settat a French Foreign Legion soldier is shot by a Moorish bullet during a fierce engagement. He is thought dead by a corporal until the wounded man groans and begs for lint as he is carried to a doctor amid renewed gunfire.
A genial younger partner asks why a man was rejected for being an inveterate joker. The crusty senior warns that even if he seems willing and capable, contentment comes from an inward superiority to surroundings, implying risk in misjudging character.
A Oswego Montana woman reports gradual eye weakness and flashes of light, thinking coffee may cause it. She quits coffee and starts Postum Food Coffee, noting resolved eye pain after three months and no other changes. A friend also switches to Postum with relief from dyspepsia and headaches. There’s a Reason.
Lionel M. Heath of 158 Eighth Street reports fifteen years of back pains frequent urination and rheumatic symptoms from kidney trouble. After using Dean's Kidney Pills he was cured five years ago and again publicly confirms the cure. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
An elderly man on a northbound day coach in Charlottesville Virginia asks a young colored boy a sequence of questions about family faith and study and finally offers five cents for apples in a scene cited by Success Magazine.
A young woman arrived at the city mission in dire physical condition with scabies incipient paresis rheumatism and sores from scratching. After seven weeks of care using Cuticura products she improved rapidly sleeping better and regaining strength. Laura Jane Bates 85 Fifth Ave New York narrates the recovery dated March 11 1907.
A man sees his son return home with a school lesson and learns that even small knowledge can bring risk. The tale cautions that partial learning may invite trouble.
A Harsh mosaic of short items extols Sweden’s school gardens funded by parish land grants and horticultural societies providing free public instruction. Also includes advertisements for Castoria Allen’s Voot-Ease Druggists remedies and quotes on self-improvement and famous sayings.
A jailed man known for shady dealings kept a monthly ten dollar allowance sent by a friend. He revealed he spent it on two press clipping bureaus to monitor public opinion, not meals or cigars, saying he would not endure the critical period without knowing what others said about him.
A Battle Creek specialist offers a non-sanitarium remedy said to restore digestion and ease nervous symptoms. The prescription combines Cardiol essence, Pepsin essence, and ginger syrup with meals, labeled by a prominent pharmacist as highly effective and harmless.
Bishop Potter reads a Cooperstown boy's essay on clergy men at a New York ecclesiastical dinner. The humorous piece lists three clergymen types and jokes about duties and sermons. A poet's friend notes faults, while a critic mocks Bacchus as a muse.
Advertises perfumery and toilet soaps for consumers at wholesale rates with high grade extracts in various colors. Mentions premiums with Monaco goods and a catalogue from Mona Co. at 483 Salton St Brooklyn NY. Notes a claim about last year’s exports favoring cars carriages and automobiles.
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