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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1914
Page
12
A white Pomeranian escapes its mistress on Surfave nue in Coney Island. A newsboy chases and catches the dog but slips into a mud puddle, losing papers yet delivering the pet back. The woman calls him impudent and asks punishment, while onlookers applaud his restraint and quick save.
A newlywed husband recalls his first week as he tries to fulfill his wife's lace request. In a humorous tale he receives a phone prompt to buy four leaf designs and a sprig, enduring dozens of samples before finding the right pattern. The Indianapolis News.
A humorous scene features Elsie’s proud mother defending her daughter’s college traits. The conversation contrasts social aims, learning, and behavior with modern expectations of graduates and earlier friendships. The mother praises Elsie while revealing a witty clash over status and fashionable habits.
A Kansas wheat field scene blends weather notes with farm labor banter. A farmer jokes about burning meat while harvest workers continue sifting golden grain, a youth cites Hyver cooking, and a grasshopper is scalded by a fateful spit. A stray wry line about dressmakers and bartenders adds a tangential aside from the Atlanta Constitution.
A call for pastors who serve the Word over human words. Faith expressed by deeds, not political point scoring, guides their ministry. True preachers conserve good, persuade hearts, and avoid zeal without knowledge. They combine reason, mercy, and steadfast principle to lead and teach.
The piece argues duties of life are fulfilled through love not selfishness. It emphasizes loving neighbors as oneself to avoid claiming more than due. It warns that many seek all they can, ignoring service value, which defeats social justice and harms industrial equality.
A citation of Fenelon extols Jesus religion as the path to peace and unity with the Savior, subduing passions and desires while comforting the believer with Christ's love, promising joy even in hardship.
A devotional line echoes a prayer for acceptance of words and thoughts before the Lord who is described as strength and redeemer, expressing pious reverence and spiritual seeking.
A historical recipe collection outlines methods for cooking poultry including stewing, roasting to brown then slow finishing, and a rice and broth dish. It also details a chicken jelly method and a sour ragout of goose or duck, with notes on using milk and water as stocks and a peach themed verse at the end.
A culinary note outlines simple cakes with basic ingredients and quick methods. Chocolate Cake uses brown sugar butter sour milk soda chocolate and egg with two-layer assembly. Spanish Bun blends butter sugar sour milk eggs baking powder raisins and spices. Krimmel Torta mixes dates walnuts nuts crumbs and beaten eggs baked slowly then served with whipped cream.
In a humorous exchange the Grouch notes the undertaker’s grave situation. The Wis Guy asks for details as Crawford asks when a man should retire. Crabshaw quips the sign is when friends present a gold-headed cane.
A famed western illustrator, known for lively scenes, befriends Hollering Jones a loud but good-natured ranch hand. The artist’s sketches, sold to an eastern magazine, captured Jones in his fiercest hollers. When the man confronted a reprint, he admitted the portrait resembled him, then declared he would holler no more, opting to celebrate with a tin horn instead.
A St. Joseph News-Press item recounts a tall tale about Irish workers in Pennsylvania coal mines. Representative Michael E. Coury of New York is cited as the narrator in a joke about a Polish coworker killed by a falling rock and a near miss involving himself.
A humorous exchange shows Aunt Dinah refusing to eliminate the word obey from a wedding ceremony, while a niece protests it will be removed from matrimony. The dialogue hints at traditions vs modern change in marriage vows.
A collection of miscellaneous lines mentions prices for a motor car at fifteen hundred dollars excluding accessories, a prompt to ask for Red Cross Ball Blue bedding aid, and notes about Maude Fred and Betty suggesting a curious, wandering mind.
A Creston Iowa woman describes relief from weakness and nervousness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports improved health and a happy home with a baby boy and invites inquiries to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for confidential advice from a woman.
A brief dialogue notes no highwaymen here, only an iceman seen as worse by some. The crowd cooling as the frost bites and the scene unsettles the audience.
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