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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1917
Page
6
A promotional message urges citizens to keep money in circulation by depositing with local banks under government supervision. It promises secure deposits, loans to merchants and farmers, and claims federal banks have eliminated financial panics. It warns against hoarding money as unpatriotic.
Community items list residents visiting relatives in Louisville Siberia Tell City and surrounding towns. Updates cover school institute plans at St Meinrad, weather causing snow drifts, local shopping trips and poultry news. Also includes an odd medical ad for Cheney Co medicines and family pills.
Fulda residents send New Year wishes to the News audience. Joseph Hultamang Se of Teli City visits relatives. Miss Antonetta Schneider arrives from Evansville to spend holidays with her mother Adwin Sthats of Adgeville. Louis Tablemann of Liberal bought tobacco crops from BE R. Cutler. local tobacco yields praised as prices hold strong. Victor Wanninger returns from Iowa where he farmed. Nis Schaffer and Ferdinand Thuvadpy noted in fragment.
In this Christmas season note, Mr. and Mrs. John Timp traveled for business to Ordin and Wednesday. Miss Irene Partenheimer, staying in Louisville, returned home Sunday. Local families including Leo Wankler with his mother and the Partenheimers’ shopping trips to Huntingburg are recorded along with visits by Klein and Woerter families and Miss Lehmidtafl from Evansville.
A jumbled historical critique argues revolvers shape modern life, linking firearms to safety and crime. It claims young men fill streets with cigarettes and portable weapons, warning that danger haunts frontiers and daily life while urging readers to read scientific posters and join a progress seeking audience.
Sage Tea and Wyeths Safe and Sulphur Compound are promoted as a quick method to darken gray or faded hair. The ad claims the product makes hair look luxuriantly dark and youthful after one or two applications, noting it is a toilet preparation not for disease care.
Uncle Dan discusses 19th century wars and argues for universal military training in the United States. He cites training, leadership, and preparedness as essential to winning future conflicts and protecting liberty, urging immediate adoption and expanded enlistment.
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