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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1922
Page
3
Gramont follows a faint oil trickle at a bayou edge near the Ledanois land, dreams of a fortune, and plans option leases. A sheriff, a bid for land, and a tense confrontation near the Gumberts place set the scene for a high stakes oil find story to continue.
A tense exchange unfolds as a jaunty voice greets the sheriff, saying Howdy, sheriff while noting distance from Houma. The sheriff’s counterpart speaks dryly and grimly, recognizing Ben Chacherre as a target and signaling an intent to escort him away from New Orleans.
The article advises a hot-water bottle should be about three quarters full for bed use. It notes the British Museum has forty six miles of shelving for its collection of two million books.
The First Congregational Church in Bennington Vermont celebrated its 160th anniversary as the state’s first church and a premier example of colonial architecture. Organized in December 1762 before Vermont’s statehood, it became a national landmark and influenced other towns through an architect’s book studied by builders who gathered there to design their own houses of worship.
The article details a flamingo’s striking color mix and ungainly form, its height between four and six feet, and its long thin legs and S shaped neck. It explains feeding by head inverted in shallow mud using a scooping beak and notes the female builds a mud mound nest holding a single egg.
The tutatera lizard, claimed to be the oldest living reptile in New Zealand and closely related to both turtles and lizards, has protective legislation though eggs remain uncovered. Some urge biologists to study its development before all eggs are destroyed, noting Mr Henaghan knows egg locations.
In Russian villages the youth under eighteen show signs of illiteracy as revolution and war disrupted schooling. The piece notes widespread lack of schooling across cities and especially villages, with millions of scholastic-age children without education.
A Size bakery serves two loaf sizes a large 10 cent loaf and a small 6 cent loaf. A salesman delivering to a double with two good customersstout woman and a small woman heard them order two large and two small respectively. The incident highlights the clash of large and small customers in a single home.
In Los Angeles a young man unable to choose between a society girl and a sixteen year old gardener’s daughter chose the sea. His body washed ashore at Redondo Beach after the note stated he would swim until exhausted. His father identified the drowned lovers tale and the society girl denied the engagement.
Mrs May Harrison of Brooklyn testified in Brooklyn family court that she was not entirely certain the man arrested as James F Pearce was her husband Joseph Harrison. She believed critics and officers made a wrong arrest, and the case was dismissed by Magistrate Dooley.
A young man in a taxicab freed most dogs from the Kansas City city pound. He climbed the stockade gate, unwired it, and escaped with two dogs saying he needed them for his two babies.
Mrs. Horace QC Little repurposed a hatpin as a defense after a footpad demanded money at her home. Four quick thrusts sent the thief fleeing. she notified police.
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