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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1918
Page
4
Local items report furloughs and returns from camps, family illnesses and deaths, church visits, business trips, and social calls. People traveling to Louisville Evansville St Meinrad and Ferdinand attend funerals and family events while rural telephone work continues and officers are re elected.
Rainy weather affects Bretzville as residents travel to Huntingburg Perdici and Jasper. John Schurz on a business trip to Huntingburg. Hubert Wagner returns from Illinois. Arnold Weidrich back from Montana. Emil Linp and John Moenkhaus attend Huntingburg events. Irina Partenheimer returns from Covington. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Abell visit Jasper for Christmas shopping.
Privates Joe Otto and Anthony Eloff are home from Camp Taylor and discharged from service. Anton Borho visits Evansville this week. Miss Irma Bettag of Granite City IL spends holidays with her parents. Emil Mullis returns from Lowell Indiana to visit home folks. Mrs Jake Ruxer and daughter Ella attend Ferdinand Mon. Ben Kemper of Siberia was in town Tuesday. Frank Denning was in Ferdinand Tuesday.
Local notes show Lise Nore Basler traveling to Tell City on Monday for Christmas and reference to Bohl arriving Phas e and Ebermen in an unsettled fragmentary report from Johnsburg local briefs.
Advertisement urging readers to use Rad Salts to support kidney function. Claims kidneys are overworked by rich diets and acids in blood. suggests four ounces of Rad Salts daily mixed in water before breakfast for several days to improve kidney action, relieve back pain, cloudy urine, nocturia, headaches, dizziness, and rheumatic symptoms.
Government praises meat producers for full duty while farmers save the situation. Policy aims to export seven times pre war pork levels through boosted production and conservation to meet global fat shortages. Beef also faces European shortage. freezer ships to be filled by US, Argentina and Australia. Official data show cattle up 10,238,000 and hogs up 12,441,000 since January 1, while sheep fall about 819,000 though may rebound. Hog herds expected to rise 8 to 15 percent with higher weights, potentially adding 1.6 billion pounds of pork for fall and spring marketing.
The article recounts America’s pledge to the Interallied Food Council and credits the American food effort with boosting Allied morale. It notes farm output rising, increased pork supplies, and conservation raising exports, with total shipments doubling as a result.
Coal vendor Jon F. Veal of Saint Meinrad Indiana urges customers to place orders now for a winter supply while prices are reasonable and roads are good. Call or see Veal to arrange delivery.
The Ferdinand township trustee of Nuboin county Indiana will handle township business daily at his home. People with township matters should meet him there. Signed Mick Senainger Trustee.
Hoover argues in 1917 that drastic force is unnecessary to maintain economic distribution and sane use of supplies. He expresses belief in the intelligence and aid of the average American businessman to remedy war-induced evils.
Dr Emma Wheat Gillmore, widow of Capt Robert T Gillmore, joined the U S Public Health Service and rose to chair the Women Physicians of the General Medical Board in the Council of National Defense She also represents the Medical Women of America on the central governing board of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps.
Fragmentary lines referencing a morning greeting and a courier name suggest a reader’s note or column snippet. No clear event or identifiable individuals are presented for a fuller summary.
An old health note urges daily internal sanitation by drinking hot water with limestone phosphate before breakfast to flush toxins from the bowels. It links indigestion headaches and bad breath to indigestible matter left by previous days and promotes internal cleansing as vital for overall health.
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