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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1921
Page
4
The Greek Church enforces strict fasting far beyond other faiths. Lenten rules ban flesh fish eggs butter cheese and oil. The Great Fast lasts 48 days followed by a 40 day fast, plus 15 fasting days in August and a lengthy post Pentecost period.
A Boston suburb committee chairman, planning to visit Troy to choose a bell, heard a bell toll clearly over a long distance call. Impressed, he proposed selecting the desired tone remotely after hearing it on the telephone. The idea headed toward telephonic selection of a church bell.
A fragment shows a Boston chairman's office arrangement with bell ringing from Troy to test long distance signaling. It notes a chosen bell and saved costs, plus assorted ad copy about business boosts and a New Discovery involving steam boiler study by two Newark men.
Dr. Ernest Kb Tucker of New York states at the annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association that a change in the pituitary gland function, a small ductless gland under the brain, helps explain a divorce rise. He links wealth and higher living standards to this shift in gland function and the divorce trend.
The Academy of the Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand Indiana is a boarding and day school for girls run by the Sisters of St Benedict. It is commissioned by Indiana’s Board of Education to confer high school privileges with special facilities in music and art. The institution emphasizes physical health solid knowledge cultured manners and thorough moral and religious training. Contacts: Sister Superior Ferdinand Indiana.
Local residents and visitors are listed with recent movements and visits. Names include Rupert Klueh, Charles Bartley, Grover Salb, Chryst Wig ger, Leonard Muller, Amanda, Lena Ballis, Karl Schnellenberger, August Schmidt, Gregor Schmidt, Louis Schmidt, Charles Oser, John Wagner, Henry Schwoeppe, Peter Gerber, Alice Senninger, O H Nreuzberger, William Wilson, Henry Schalk, Joseph Graehler, Frank Schlachter, George Schlachter, Joseph Vaal, William Merkley, Baird Brothers, Peter Ronifer, Joe Weyer. Some traveled to and from Louisville, Evansville, Huntingburg, St Meinrad, and nearby towns. Also noted is a sale and a farm for sale one mile north of Fulda with Karl Lindauer.
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