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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
5
A humorous feature notes that many young women attract suitors by steady domestic skill, discretion, and adaptable charm. It hallmarks traits valued in a wife including household competence, practicality, sociability, modest dress, unselfishness, and thoughtful conversation.
The Belgian chamber special commission voted nine to seven to refrain from interfering with the king's control of Congo budget. The Boston Transcript argues Belgium bears responsibility for Congo misgovernment, while highlighting opposition to Congo Free State exploitation. The piece also notes eclectic items about a reformer college incident and imperial opal curiosities in Vienna.
A Rhode Island incident shows how women workers won union support after a longtime employee was fired for unjust reasons. The 5000-member union pressured the fabric of labor to secure fair treatment and address employer practices amid mixed industry tensions.
The Atlantic squadron sails from Hampton Roads to the Pacific led by Admiral Evangeline Brownlow aboard the Connecticut. The fleet totals 270 vessels, 18 battleships, with 11,500 sailors and 481 officers, carrying 664 four inch guns, coal, provisions, and 115 days at sea.
Gov Dawson leads a permanent relief committee appealing for funds to aid widows and orphans of the Fairmont Coal mine explosion near Monongah. About 350 workers died. estimate needs reach $200,000 to $175,000 for dependents and unborn children. Contributions urged via Chambers of Commerce and local officials.
Washington. Assistant Secretary Murray of the commerce and labor department Charles P Nell commissioner of labor and Herbert Knox Smith commissioner of corporations left for Goldfield Nev to investigate the miners vs operators trouble after a Roosevelt conference Funston arrived in Goldfield and said he would stay to help with the labor situation and would impose martial law if violence escalates but only if conditions require it.
Reports circulate that State Treasurer Frank P. Glazier is critically ill after a three week collapse tied to over 1 000 000 in involved interests and 685 in state funds held at Chelsea Savings bank which the Banking Commissioner closed. Doctors have been unable to rouse him from a comatose state. Alice Longworth underwent successful appendectomy at the White House performed by Dr Finney and assisted by Dr Nordhoff Jung and Surgeon General Rixey. post op condition excellent.
New York reports Abraham Hummel the lawyer serving a sentence for conspiracy in the Dodge Morse divorce case is near death from kidney disease at Blackwell's Island Penitentiary.
A boy identified as Ned 4H Starmer aged 11 shot and killed four year old Georges Blakely in St Joseph Missouri. Investigators say the incident involved a mistaken belief related to identity and a misplaced notion of being a cowboy. No further details are available about motive or circumstances.
A tale centers on Aunt Dolly and a young girl claiming she will never be too old to sit on knees. Uncle George, a habitual petty thief, admits to stealing a pig and prays at night trying to justify his act. The humorous piece contrasts innocence with a troubled confession.
There is more catarrh in the region than other diseases and local treatments often failed. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney Jr. of Toledo, Ohio, is advertised as the only constitutional remedy, taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. A one hundred dollar reward is offered for any case it fails to cure. Sold by druggists for 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A vanished morning text features a boy’s church remark A man is a man for a that and a parent’s Bible prompt. The remainder includes a cleaning tip Borax and water for milk pans and a quirky ad line for a cold remedy.
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