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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
7
A mixed batch of local items reports on sales and auctions by individuals such as Raymond Reckelhoff and Louis Voegerl, social news from St Meinrad with the Brothers Abbey outing, Red Cross relief totals, factory and farm circumstances, and public health notes. It also notes the death of Senator Ollie James, wartime prisoner counts, and medical reviews of tuberculosis among returning soldiers.
A Atlantic City meeting of the American Leather Chemists' Association and American Chemical Society discussed army footwear. They confirmed soldiers receive high quality leather shoes with grease to waterproof and noted first aid kits include foot paste to prevent trench sores caused by trench water. Government aims to keep soldiers’ feet healthy and comfortable.
Sweden native John Erickson, a former worker on Berlin outer defenses, describes two concentric gun rings around Berlin with guns 22 to 42 inches in diameter, over 200 feet long, buried in seven feet of granite basements under a vegetated roof.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spoke of giving up medicine due to its hardness. He described a bitter winter night call five kilometers away to a reportedly ill child. After a fruitless search, a third story window offered the truth that the child slept peacefully, and a resident asked for a free visit.
A hotel lobby dialogue from Washington features Rep Ed ward H Watson of New Hampshire recounting a rural New England livery stable sign. Pat the owner had a man riding a mule painted, prompting Mike to quip who is the man on the mule in a humorous exchange.
Motivational note urges readers to approach any task with confidence and cheerfulness whether at work school or home. It endorses self discipline and a positive mindset as a tool for efficiency and success.
Brazil's secretary of agriculture urges government action to expand coal and steel industries. Decrees aim to boost mining, with notes that ten active coal mines are needed to impact wood conservation. Coke from coal may be refined locally, while Sweden and the US example are cited for fuel strategies.
The French use trained dogs to carry light lunches coffee cartridges and supplies to men in first line trenches during hot protracted fighting. Dogs crawl avoid bullets pass through gas areas with special masks. Also a baseball anecdote recalls Connie Mack and Joe Cantillon discussing a rookie pitcher ahead of Decoration Day game.
Ivan Rossiter recalls his WWI experiences from enlistment in Canada to capture and exchange. He details training camps, crossing to England, the voyage to Flanders, the Ypres battle, friends lost, wounds, capture, German medical abuse, wrist bones removal, finger amputation, guards’ mistreatment, and prison camp conditions.
A buckster driving a produce load wandered into a suburb where road repairs were underway. His horse teetered at a deep sewer trench as a nearby resident warned him. The driver claimed the red lanterns were mere decorations.
In town Tuesday and over the weekend multiple residents listed here visited relatives, repaired machinery, or conducted business. Names include Philip Dilly, Father Norbert, John H. and Henry Kerstlens, Joe Baalmann, Bertha Boehmann, Frank Hettich, A Py Aders, Florens Kitten Sr, Louis Voegers, Charles Leavinger, Peter Gerber and son Alvis, Marie Fleig, Dora Peters, Viola Reckelhoff, Ella Bart, Louis Puertzer, Francis Eversmann, George Bettag and son, A F Baschkoetter, John Abelhor, John Birk, Mrs. Ben Stork, Mrs. Ed Glaser and baby, William Helmrich, John Schreiner, Joe Bickwer mert, Frank Arnold, A F Buschkoetter, Jasper trip for duty, Mrs. Henry J. Schalk and Adeline, Mrs. Joe Egler and family, Joe Egloff and daughters, Herman Brinkmann family, Mrs. Charles Trotter, Bertha Rickelmann and relatives, with visits to Evansville Covington and Louisville and to Mariah Hill Camp Taylor and St Benedict La.
Paris Mississippi recounts Lydia Arbogast who at sixteen suffered poor health and headaches. After using Cardui she reports color returned, strength improved and life became worth living. The ad touts Cardui as a safe purely vegetable tonic for womanly troubles.
A historic health column urges increased water intake to ease irritated kidneys and reduce night-time urination. It promotes Jad Salts as a remedy, claiming it cleans clogged kidneys, neutralizes urine acids, and supports normal kidney activity.
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