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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1908
Page
2
In Indiana, Bridget Dinah and Katrina face public censure for alleged kitchen, laundry, dining room, and upstairs downstairs duties. The piece argues the abuse is excessive, yet households are imperfectly run, and suggests apprenticeships or training schools to prepare servants before taking household posts.
A posted history notes Dr Billy James Clark of Moreau New York formed a temperance society in 1808. The movement’s hundredth anniversary was celebrated in Saratoga with an International temperance convention including delegates from 25 states and several foreign countries. The piece contrasts Clark’s group with the Sober Society of Allentown predating it by three years and cites later large scale temperance activism rising in 1826 in Boston.
A bronze statue of John W. Mackay in miner’s attire stands before the University of Nevada Reno’s mining building. Set up by legislative resolution to honor his role in the Comstock lode, the figure depicts a practical prospector in flannel shirt and cowhide boots. Descendants praised the gesture and assisted with the erection.
A New York man seeking an amusement license disclosed earnings from Ferris wheels at North Beach Coney Island and Fort George about $300 weekly. He also reported $1,260 from merry-go-rounds and a $40,000 annual take from a Fort George scenic railway, prompting concerns that many may rush into the amusement business.
England lauds John Henniker Heaton for successful campaign to cut ocean postage to the United States while remembering Elihu Burritt the Connecticut blacksmith for pushing cheap rates.
A burglar insurance company is being organized in New York while the police there insure against burglary. In Kentucky a small town promotes a donkey that chews tobacco as a vanity bid for attention, a quirky fad shared by many communities.
A brisk digest from across the globe covers political moves, legal actions, storms, aviation feats, and crimes. Notables include Taft at a Virginia horse show, Roosevelt accepting responsibility for the Brownsville affair, Zeppelins and balloons in flight, bank failures, murders, and a large Knights of Pythias parade.
A rush of scattered incidents fills the page: Father George Vahey and Charles Pohlmann die in an car plunge near Sylvania, Ohio. miners strike Birmingham Mineral road train, killing three and wounding eleven. two Methuen officers beaten to death. Kentucky officials denounce Bracken county officials as night riders. Separate reports list a fatal Broolyn shooting, a schooner collision near Halifax with nine dead, a New York tenement fire killing four, and a lynching in Tifton, Georgia. Additional items note Pillsbury-Washburn receivers, a teenage elopement, Greenland ice floe disaster, a forged-escape recapture, Ty Cobb marriage, a railway workers strike, a Virginia coal coaling record, and balloons near Warsaw.
A head on collision of electric street cars near Piqua three miles from the city at 6 50 PM on Monday leaves three dead and about 40 injured. The wreck occurred on a stretch between Sidney and Piqua on the Western Michigan line causing severe damage, with recoveries uncertain. Doctors from Piqua and Sidney rushed to aid, and officials blame a misread running order as the cause.
Nine men died and nearly twenty were seriously injured when a boiler in the center of a York rolling mill exploded Monday afternoon. Ambulances rushed to the scene as rescue parties searched for bodies amid mangled remains and scattered debris. The blast damaged nearby plant and sent twisted iron flying, with repairs already underway on an engine prior to the disaster.
The government’s revision for a rehearing by the United States court of appeals of the government case against Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, reversed by Judge Landis’ $29,240,000 fine, has been completed and forwarded to Attorney General Bonaparte. The petition will be filed here on August 1.
A Los Angeles Times report describes a grim yard where chickens, dogs, and frogs endure drug tests. It quotes a chemist explaining ergotine tests on chickens, hasheesh testing on dogs, and Pisilalis trials on frogs, noting dangers to chemists who test on themselves.
The captain praises the grampus a as a fierce sea creature. The tale describes its hunt of the bowhead whale with two mates. After fatally injuring the whale they bite into the tongue inside its mouth, then depart as the whale dies.
A Tammany donor hands a $1,000 bill to a hotel bar and asks for change. A colored porter retrieves the sum in silver, delivering 999 silver dollars and a 25 cent piece, sparking astonished reactions about silver currency replacing paper money.
A fragmented item from the Chicago Daily News humor column features a playful exchange about a character nicknamed Germ and a mock romance. The snippet hints at a mischievous scene involving a door knob gag and a kiss microbe joke.
Market reports note a playful exchange with Miss Brown and Mr Cute. The fragment hints at a theatrical or social moment with a line sung about absence. No clear event, date, or organization is identifiable.
Mrs David Nrown of Locke Arkansas suffered eczema for over two years with persistent itching and open sores on her ankles. After trying two physicians and various ointments failed, she found relief using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills. Within three uses she slept, and after a full course her ankles healed with no recurrence a year later.
A court case in Ohio used a key witness who arrived only after multiple subpoenas. Asked why she disobeyed, the woman replied she had smallpox in the area and feared the judge would be prejudiced against them. The anecdote highlights courtroom tension and public health fears.
Senator Folker risked life in Albany to vote against racing and expose track deceit. An Albany legislator recalls a Gloucester jockey overheard in a saloon saying a favorite would not win unless the reins break, the night before the race.
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