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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
7
Year end reflection urges gratitude for time well spent and lessons learned. Readers are advised to welcome 1908 with hopeful resolve rather than empty promises, valuing health happiness and good will over wealth or fame, and to meet the world with a kind, patient outlook.
Poem reflecting on the passing of the old year and the transition to the new, recalling weddings, meeting friends, and joys mingled with mourning and memory. The speaker laments losses while hoping for a brighter year ahead.
An orphan boy Jeffrey and friend Alice grow up in a parish home amid loss. On New Year’s morning a velvet dressed woman and her husband choose Alice and Jeffrey for adoption. Jeffrey, with longing for parents and a home, is welcomed as their son, ending a year of loneliness.
New York reports say United States Steel officials held internal conferences to prepare for next week’s general meetings of the steel association. Price reductions are expected for sheet bars billets and tin plates as trade conditions prompt price readjustments amid a large tin plate order tied to a Mennessen plant restart.
New York December 21 William Johnson survived an operation to repair a stab heart wound but developed plural pneumonia at Roosevelt hospital now convalescing after a complex chest procedure. In Calera Alabama December 21 a southbound passenger train collided with a northbound freight injuring four seriously and leaving several passengers bruised though none seriously hurt.
In Alabama Washington December 21 officials allege collusion between crews of two trains wrecked at Terra Cotta to blame a telegraph operator at Silver Springs. Assistant district attorneys Given and Fractor urged the claim during the trial of Engineer Hildebrand and others. Engineer Vermillion admitted the motive.
Dominick Karota a driver for a brewing company was shot and killed in Uniontown Pennsylvania on December 21. The homicide is believed to be the work of Black Hand members after Karota received a threatening letter demanding 600 paid to the society. He ignored the threat.
Philadelphia rapid transit company orders cats delivered at car barns amid looming employee strike ballot to decide on strike. Indicted for blackmail Herman Voecks arraigned in New York case linking to Raymond Hitchcock saga held on $2,500 bail.
In Frome Hungary on December 21 the register shows a marked drop in emigration to the United States. The article notes empty vessels and a decrease in passenger flow from Frome during the period observed.
In a December session Miss Joscelyn guides Wallingford Coterie through shirt waist construction. She explains seams three eighths inch from edges, French and veining finishes, belt adjustments, and sleeve openings with over lap and continuous lap styles.
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