Town guests and visitors mingle in Ferdinand area
Local residents and out of town visitors frequent Ferdinand on midweek business and social calls. Names include Frank Kunkler Henry Landgrebe Tillie Lindenschmidt Rev Accursius Townes Wil Baumer Candle Co. Evansville reps Ben Leugers F Meguiar Benno Krapf John Hather Fred Riess Gustav Basedow Michael Olinger and others. Several travelers pass through St Meinrad St Henry and Tell City on various errands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wil & Baumer Candle Co
New York
Joseph Gordon
Rockport
St. Meinrad
Ben Leugers
F. Meguiar
Evansville
Benno Krapf
St. Henry
Fred Riess
Gustav Basedow
Tell City
Our Town
Michael Olinger
Mr. Ress
U. S. Navy
Prohibition Debate Shapes Oklahoma and Indiana Races
The piece reports on Oklahoma prohibition challenges under Gov Has kell with bootlegging near Indian Territory towns and clubs replacing saloons on the state side. It also notes shifting support for Judge Ely in Pike and Dubois counties, urging his renomination to sustain reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
Haskell
Indian Territory
Ely
Indiana
Petersburg Press
Building the Cathedral Its Fourth Arch and Funds Reveal Delays
The article traces the Saint John the Divine Cathedral’s 34 year incorporation and 15 year cornerstone, noting 137 feet to the keystone and ongoing funds driven work. It cites architects La Farge and Morgan and Bowdoin donations, project costs from 10 to 20 million, and the extensive excavations and chapels planned including Belmont and King Chapels for diverse services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saint John the Divine
Morningside Park
New York
C. Grant la Farge
Heins & la Farge
Board of Trustees
la Farge
J. Pierpont Morgan
George Bowdoin
Sky Line
Morningside Heights
Cathedral Heights
Belmont
August Belmont
King Chapel
Weekend Visit Sparks Milwaukee Home Tour
A young woman travels with Arthur Knight to Milwaukee after receiving an invitation from Mrs. Rockwell to view the Rockwell family's new home. She studies architecture while hoping to influence her father to undertake a handsome, modern house project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Rockwell
Father
Milwaukee
Arthur
Rockwell
Rockwell House
Paupa
Mrs. Hockwell
A Visitor Declines Mrs Rockwell's Church Dinner Invite
I travel with Arthur to Milwaukee and dodge an invitation to join Mrs Rockwell for church and dinner. The Rockwell family gossip and a flood caused by a momentary kitchen mishap upend the visit, prompting a hasty departure and return trip with Arthur.
Pat the Bartender Seeks Divorce After Pneumonia Sting
A city center bartender Pat faces a strained marriage and mocks doctors as he recovers from pneumonia. He quips that his wife deserves a divorce but notes the medical news that he may not live, then belittles hopeful prognosis with his characteristic weariness.
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Pat
Philadelphia
The Way They Do It Now
Parents helping children with schoolwork face quirks in long division as modern teaching shifts the placement of divisor quotient and remainder. Older methods place divisor left of dividend and remainder at end of quotient, but today students insist the quotient sits above the dividend and the remainder fits the crook on the right.
Pension Proof Confusion in Berlin Office
A German widow sought her pension and submitted a village mayor’s certificate asserting she was alive. The official rejected it noting the date Sept 21 was after the due Sept 15 and jokingly demanded proof of life on Sept 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Beached Blackfish Dead on Tarpon Springs Shore
Seven blackfish, a smaller whale species, were found dead on a Tarpon Springs beach. An old whaler described their jumping and tumbling behavior and how panic drives others ashore where they perish.
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Tarpon Springs
South Pacific
St. Petersburg
New Anaesthetic Claim Uses Electricity, French Scientist Reports
The Boston Herald notes Prof Leduc of France claims an electric method to produce anaesthesia without electric osmosis. It is uncertain and drawing attention while Prof Scripture of Yale is said to have announced a similar idea years ago. Awaited verdict clarifies method and results.
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Leduc
Scripture
Yale University
Boston Herald
Workingman and Higher Education Debate
Blackwood's Magazine argues that workingmen earning degrees lose their working class status. It critiques universities as too literary or scientific and not prepared to train workers in trades like masonry or shoemaking, even if lowered to secondary school standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwood's
Mechanical schooling and education as vast machinery
A London Graphic remark that modern schooling resembles a giant machine, producing functionally oriented individuals but often failing to fit them into their social roles. The quote critiques overmechanization of learning and its mismatch with human needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Graphic
Alman Talks in Sleep Causes Wife Sleep Trouble
A fragment notes Alman speaking in his sleep causes his wife to suffer insomnia and frustration at home. The brief implies a domestic disruption without further details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Frank Kunkler
Henry Landgrebe
Huntingburg
Tillie Lindenschmidt
Wesley Ahring
Santa Claus
Accursius Townes, O. F. M
Batesville
Henry Haller
Messra Bockstahler & Co
Dale
Ferdinand Tuesaday
H. C. Hausenaur
Henry Helming
Cincinnati
Prechtel
Mr. Herr
City
John P. Hather
Jasper
Joe Daunhauer
Leo Snyder
F. X. Rickelmann
Copyriants &c
Cornerstone
Arthur Knight
Papa
Workingman and Higher Education
J. A. Sondermann
Wade
Ferdinand Electric Light Co
Indianapolis
The
United States
S. L. Goode
Roth
Daunhauer
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