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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
4
The column shares New Year wishes from Beckmann State Bank correspondents and reports local holiday notes. It lists sick list items for Joe Weaver with malaria, wood-cutting by Jacob Schaffer, and visits by Mrs. Katie Pfeiffer and others. It includes Christmas masses and family greetings across Evansville, Indianapolis, and Bristow, plus a quirky note on historical prejudice against bearded barristers and Judah Benjamin as a standout in law.
Miss Martha Schue returns home for a week from Evansville. Maurice Meyer plans a Christmas visit with his parents in Evansville. Mr and Mrs George Harlander visit Owensboro relatives this week. Miss Mayme Meyer from Louis Week stays with family. Albert Jochim returns from Evansville after an extended stay. Miss Theresa Thoma of Owensboro visits home folks this week. Ben Kappner leaves for Evansville for a few days to visit his sister. Mr and Mrs Otto Spayd spend Christmas with the latters parents in Ferdinand. J Brenner visits a friend in Rockport.
Otmar Becher left last Thursday for Indianapolis while Miss Maud Rost returned home from Branaville to spend the holiday at home.
An old advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready hair dye that darkens hair to cover gray. It claims natural, even results by morning and glossy aging to resemble youth, urging readers to buy for a delightful toilet requisite rather than a medicine.
The article recounts 16th century beard prejudice at Lincoln's Inn and similar measures. It cites fines for facial hair and a 1554 ban on beards among barristers, with an order for compulsory shaving, reflecting early legal challenges to grooming norms.
A Brooklyn Eagle piece recalls a lumberman weeping at orders to clear fine timber. The narrator, revisiting childhood woods, notes trees unchanged by time yet perceived as more dangerous to climb. Nut gathering memories fade as personal tastes shift from winter stores to distance from handmade nuts.
A Saturday shopper offered ninety five cents on a one dollar purchase. The draper refused the discount but suggested payment on the next visit. The woman left offended, prompting a later realization of his misstep in the Exchange.
A Kansas City Journal fragment discusses claims that height can be modestly extended by stretching but notes giants are unlikely. It cites a 200-year-old French savant Henrion who predicted extreme ancestrals as 1289 feet 9 inches and 118 feet 9 inches and mocks a Sicily giant skeleton tale as implausible, with a walking stick misread as enormous.
An Erie Pennsylvania manufacturer has perfected a mirror that magnifies at any distance without distorting the reflected image. It helps mechanics inspect beneath or behind objects and offers practical household use. The device reflects white light and aids examination of internal or hard to readjust parts, including medical areas such as throat teeth mouth or eyes.
The Greek termination in the names and seven syllable patronymics is said to signal lineage. M Calogeropoulos may count among his order that exacts four periods of fast.
An assortment of anecdotes describes rulers and officials forcing others to eat written works. Barnabo Visconti makes papal delegates swallow an excommunication bull, a Austrian general forces creditors to eat a signed note, and a Stantinavian writer faces beheading or digestion of his manuscript boiled in broth. Inaac Volmar and Whitip Oldenburger face similar grim sentences, highlighting brutal censorship methods.
A historic Pearl-Oyster plantation in the Bay of Age shows a multi year cycle. Stones weighing six to eight pounds host young oysters from May to August, then rocks move seaward in November. After three years shells reach about two inches, pearls are inserted and the beds return to water for four more years before harvesting at seven and a half years old.
South of Paris the honeycombed aba quarries extend 300 yards to half a mile long and 80 to 180 feet deep. These old caverns grow nearly all Paris’s mushrooms with a prized flavor. A fly swarms the passages and its larvae destroy beds before shoots emerge, challenging growers.
The Scientific American describes a pair of light rubber boots for amateur fishermen that can be rolled up for portable pocket use. Worn over leather shoes, they protect like heavy boots but without the bulk, featuring pure gum rubber construction and ankle support.
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