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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1909
Page
3
A collage of short items includes a testimonial for Deans Kidney Pills, a tuberculosis poster campaign by medical groups, and quick quips on manners and gossip. The fragments mention nursing remedies, a poster drive worth millions, etiquette humor, and early health advice.
In a tense town scene Miss Winstanley and Barbara Hemgray confront a broken engagement. Anthony faces exposure for peculation while Dan is set to lead Miss Winstanley’s Montana mining venture, with Barbara choosing withdrawal and Twining expecting to move on.
The speaker jokes about honeymoons and tells Mr. Twining that Dan and she are leaving in a fortnight. The narrator agrees and suggests joining if things go poorly, proposing May 1 as a plan. The exchange hints at a planned departure and potential accompanying.
Barbara returns to town and admits she cannot love the narrator. He declares his love and she confesses she has fought to quit caring. They admit their feelings as Averill waits, ending the scene with a tender embrace and a note of finality.
A historical survey traces wireless theory from Kelvin to Hertz and Marconi, noting Lodge’s syntony, then shifts to a local oddity about an Irish potato vine in Luthersville producing unusually large potatoes along its branches, grown in mixed sand and red clay soil.
A Portland Oregonian cartoon accompanies an article on Americans moving to Canada in 1909. It notes 170,000 farmers emigrating with about 70 million dollars in cash and effects, citing reasons as cheap land, safety, stable laws, and lower tariffs. Railways guiding settlement are Canadian Pacific, Canadian Northern, and Grand Trunk Pacific with government agents aiding settlers.
A Yukon Oklahoma mother recounts curing her two year old son’s severe rash with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment after weeks of worsening symptoms. The child’s skin thickened and blistered, causing intense itching until healing occurred over two years ago with no relapse.
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