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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
6
A London trickster sold hemlock seed cheaply by sowing wild hedge rows each spring, then offering farmers to clear the “weeds” for a fee in autumn. The scheme supplied cheap drug stock to a wholesale house, with a suspect payback once crops matured.
An Italian Caproni aircraft is downed by Austrian anti aircraft fire near the Isonzo front. The pilot dies while the observer is wounded but unharmed. The captain laments his comrade cannot receive last rites in this year. An Austrian officer offers sympathy and arranges a restoration gesture. An Italian aircraft later receives a package with a wreath and a fresh pair of trousers for Captain Amegnano.
In a tense courtroom exchange the lawyer presses the principal witness about a night-time disturbance. The witness admits uncertainty about sighting a burglar at the foot of the stairs while claiming his wife stood in front of him.
A group of Black workers at a southern railroad station mock Henry claiming his feet move like flat pancakes. The exchange ridicules his gait with crude racial caricature, reflecting everyday harassment. The scene shifts to mention baseball umpires as a distant, abrupt contrast.
A reflection on parental memory and the flaws of invoking child pasts to judge youngsters. It argues that adults misjudge children by recalling their own youth and urges understanding over scolding, urging parents to study child development stages to guide rather than shame.
A light tale recalls Mr Jones forgetting a wife task to buy 25 favors and sending 23 in three trips, exposing his absentmindedness. His wife discovers the error when a boy arrives with the items and the couple ends with a humorous misunderstanding.
An Atlantic essay questions the rose as a symbol of beauty and its value to ancestors. It ponders why the flower, not the fruit or vegetable, captivates admiration and what practical ties beauty has to human life. The author Playfully contrasts nature’s forms from flowers to food.
National Geographic notes Mendoza province yields vast wine output with irrigation widely used. The region sits above two thousand feet, with Italian families farming grapes and even babies resting in improvised tents while parents tend vines.
An advertisement urges readers to treat kidney and bladder troubles with Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root. It touts symptom relief from lumbago rheumatism and urinary issues and offers a sample bottle by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton New York with a paper notice mention.
A dialogue shows Tam struggling to meet this month’s car payment while a partner offers help by paying ten cents per ride in the car, twice the jitney bus fare, in a tense exchange about lending money and counting trips.
A second hand dealer boasts of a rare antique phonograph prompting a laughing counter remark about classifying it as antique furniture. The piece sells with the dealer claiming its long ownership proof.
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