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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1919
Page
2
The Ferdinand Hews weekly publication lists subscription rates and advertising charges. Includes entry information, public notices, and liquor licensing at legal rates with monthly billing and rate card details.
Announcement lists Jacob L. O Bannon of Floyd County Sezaman Minton of New Albany and Thomas B Buskirk of Orange County as Democratic candidates for the Third Congressional District, pending primary election results.
Evansville Indiana reports detailed commodity prices with grains wheat at 2.33 to 2.35 per bushel oats at per bushel corn 1.90 potatoes 1.90 onions 500 per hundred cabbage 4.00 per 100 pounds eggs 10 cents per dozen butter 7 cents per pound spring chickens 20 cents per pound old roosters 13 cents per pound turkeys 28 cents per pound geese 20 cents per pound cattle values listed including steers 15.00 per hundredweight heifers 11.50 per hundredweight cows 9.50 per hundredweight bulls 6.75 per hundredweight horeses none noted Timothy hay 28.00 per ton.
A collection of small town items including Bartley’s Store offerings and specials, local trades and jobs, an auctioneer friend, and social greetings. Also reports a mine accident near Evansville with two deaths, and a gasoline station explosion injuring Frank Wuetcher days ago.
Martin Troesch and Hubert Sternberg were in town Tuesday while several locals including Pheloman Eifert Henry Lindenschmidt Jim Bromm and Rudolph Senninger returned from Detroit for holidays. Monastery students from St Meinrad numbered 180 passing through for Christmas vacation.
Schedule shows daily departures from Ferdinand to Huntingburg with morning and evening trips. Train No 1 connects to Southern Railway services to Evansville Rockport Cannelton and Louisville, plus westward routes to Princeton Wear Baden and Evansville. All trains run from Southern Railway depot at Huntingburg, Indiana.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for a catarrh cure by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The copy touts a 35 year history as a reliable remedy and claims to purify blood on mucous surfaces. It describes symptoms and purported healing effects, urging readers to try the product.
Church notices list daily offerings and masses for December 21 to Sunday with specific names attending. A public probate notice directs creditors heirs and legatees of Clement Lueken Jr deceased to appear January 6 1920 in Dubois Circuit Court Jasper Indiana show cause why final settlement should not be approved and to prove heirs and receive shares. Reckelhoff and Muller promote men s silk shirts and neckwear as Christmas gifts.
A purport of health advice touts drinking real hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to flush the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels. Proponents claim it cleanses toxins, banishes headaches and bilious attacks, and improves overall wellbeing despite limited cost.
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