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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
2
Emergency kitchens in The Hague provide one warm meal daily at small prices. The municipal kitchen serves all comers for four cents with a weekly menu including oatmeal and beef. The Dutch Society of Housewives offers 12 cent dinners, or 10 cents for takeout, while a private kitchen serves better paid workers for 80 cents.
A Hoover helper finds an American cook on a dusty Belgian road to prepare a cargo of corn sent for Belgian relief in 1916. The improvised cook from Norfolk is placed in a kitchen and, in a chef’s uniform, uses corn pone bread and corn cakes to feed Belgians, resolving the disposal issue for the supply.
An American traveler newly released from Russia relates a story of Kerensky era notes copied by counterfeiters who defaced them with the slogan Ours are just as good as yours. The tale is offered as a sharp, humorous critique of chaotic government in Russia.
Scientist S C Ball studied mosquito migration from Rebecca Shoal lighthouse 12 nautical miles off Key West. Mosquitoes blown to the lighthouse from the Marquesas Atoll 24 miles eastward and from Cuba 95 miles away by northerly and easterly winds. some evidence suggests transport from Tampa Bay 180 miles distant. House fires and other insects were captured at the lighthouse.
In a spare moment at a lonely county station a waiting room noise unsettles a stranded passenger. A porter boy explains the station master, idle after many trains, teaches porters a timetable set to music learned from the war.
An ad describes catarrhal deafness as caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube and asserts focal treatments cannot cure it. It claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures through the blood and offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure, with free circulations and endorsements by J. Cheney & Co.
A physician touts a morning drink of hot water with limestone phosphate to wash away indigestible material, bile and toxins from the liver and bowels. He warns against calomel and claims the remedy is harmless, inexpensive and food-compatible for daily use.
Ferdinand township Dubois County Indiana trustee Nick Senninger states he will attend to township business at his home every weekday and invites residents to present township matters at his residence in Ferdinand Indiana.
War Time Sweeteners MERICA offers maple sugar syrups honey and molasses as substitutes during sugar shortages. Use syrup or honey to replace sugar with reduced liquid and provide guidance on ratios for various sweeteners. Emphasizes fruit-based alternatives and preserving without sugar for desserts and meals.
County Agent notes discuss Rosin Rye as a promising variety tested in other counties with yield advantages. Farmers in Dubois County are invited to share experiences, plus guidance on seed cleanliness and sowing. The page urges seed saving, warns about dodder and buckhorn plantain, promotes pig and poultry clubs, and highlights practical farm tasks including silo filling and labor.
The notice outlines a series of meetings and demonstrations on the wheat situation led by the County Agricultural Agent. It also details a beginning September 1 1918 price schedule for music lessons including individual and family rates, instrument practice fees, and theory coursework essential for teaching and higher studies in music.
Prices listed for grains vegetables and livestock in Evansville Indiana with per bushel per hundredweight and per ton figures. Wheat oats corn potatoes onions cabbage wool ginseng eggs butter poultry and livestock prices show wide ranges and unit measures.
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