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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
15
The dialogue features Blobbs praising Hardappa as a busy bee yet noting he ruins others he touches. The joke hinges on a pun about getting eaten as he supposedly affects people around him.
A collage of quirky lines includes a horse owner’s nightmare, a syrup for children, a socks vent, Red Cross Ball Blue ad copy, and a grad joke at commencement. The tones echo playful salon chatter and vintage ad blurbs with minor misprints.
An Elyria Ohio man reports a decade of scalp trouble with itching flaking and hair loss. After trying many remedies he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment washing twice daily and applying the ointment, noting improvement in two weeks and cure in two months.
A six foot clock in a Carlisle office has operated by electricity derived from the earth since 1870. A wire from the earth to a magnet in the clock supplies power, keeping the clock running nearly continuously since its invention.
In a quirky event, Mia placed first while Cinder-Why reacted with anger and claimed to have wasted time on a glass eye. The odd exchange highlighted a playful contest dynamic between the characters.
Purdue University officials and speakers closed the Indiana conference with calls for a mass mobilization to pass the new vocational education law. George Woodruff outlined remedies for high living costs, emphasizing farm finance and increased production. W. E. Stone analyzed vocational education and warned against relying on past industrial supremacy. The report includes agronomic guidance on alfalfa cultivation, lime, drainage, and soil organic matter to boost yields up to 3–6 tons per acre.
The article urges Indiana farmers to embrace alfalfa culture noting its high protein seeds reduce reliance on purchased grain and can equal returns from wheat bran. It stresses careful field management, drainage, lime and inoculation, warning failures if any essential is lacking and highlighting potential yields of four to five tons per acre.
The article warns fowls suffer diseases like roup and gape from neglect and emphasizes prevention through sunshine fresh air clean food pure water and exercise. It outlines care steps including isolating sick birds, using remedies such as creolin and permanganate, and cautions on culling severe cases. It notes gape worms spread via infected ground and stresses sanitation.
In a New South Wales gold district a political meeting ends in chaos as the chair disciplines a noisy Welsh miner after the speaker is interrupted. The chairman declares open questions but a single strike sends the Welsh protester to the floor, inviting silence from the crowd.
A hostess shares a ham recipe from the Jefferson tradition. The ham should simmer for about two hours and must not boil. A young colored woman from the mountains tends the stovetop and answers the mistress, insisting the ham is only simpering on the stove.
A rich lady recounts how avoiding meat and rich pastries and using Grape Nuts with sugar and cream improved her digestion, relieved brain fog, and restored vitality after a period of constipation and ill health. The letter promotes Postum products and The Road to Wellville.
A compact social note urges thrift and punctuality with small tasks and laundry care. It quotes Frances Willard on humanity and satire, warning against procrastination and urging use of Red Cross Ball Blue for bluing, not water.
For acting perspiring feet use Tyree's Antiseptic Powder sprinkled into the shoes or used in solution. Never fail to relieve. 25 cents at all druggists or sample sent free by J. Tyree, Washington, D. C. adv.
In a dialogue between Thomas and his mother, the boy denies disobeying his grandmother while admitting to swimming. The mother recalls a remark warning against swimming, though a younger version suggests the grandmother did not state a prohibition.
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