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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
7
Santa Claus announces a grand store display filled with toys Dolls animals games go carts trains wagons and more. The aisles showcase candies jewelry lamps vases and personal goods with a promise of best prices and early selection to avoid last minute rush.
Hubert Quante, a 21 year old resident of Ferdinand, Indiana, applies to the Dubois County Board of Commissioners at the January 1918 term for leave to renew a license to sell intoxicating liquors in a 26 by 30 foot room on the ground floor of a two story building on Ohio Street. The renewal permits sales of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors in lees and partial quantities with on premises drinking, under the acts licensing liquor sales.
An advertisement touts Sanol as the best remedy for kidney and bladder troubles with relief claimed in 24 hours. It is advertised as a guaranteed remedy priced at 35 cents and 1 dollar per bottle at the drug store.
A reader reports relief after trying Ganot for backache and nervous symptoms. The advertisement promises improvement for liver and kidney discomfort and urges personal trial to confirm its claimed benefits.
A parade of visitors and residents was noted as Frank Wissel Hubert Quante Joe Barth Eugene Grundhofer Lester Lanman Gunt Gehlhausen Miss Theresia Rahmann Dr G A McLane Werner Wollenmann Albert Sondermann John Hasafurther John Haas Jake Boxer Robert Beckmann Ida Beckmann Father Edward Frank Schlachter Herb Senninger Sylvester Schniedersa and others were in town or passing through from Chicago Evansville Huntingburg Adgeville St Meinrad and nearby areas. The report also mentions several residents returning home from work trips in Chicago and gray Indiana and a Siberia reference with multiple locals listed.
Maude Marie Costello will write a series of domestic science articles for this paper. The editor urges readers not to miss the weekly installments which promise to raise living standards and cut household costs. Costello, a Chicago University and Lewis Institute graduate, teachers domestic science and has conducted extensive cookery experiments.
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