25 Feb 1916
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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1916
Page
1
The article details women drawn into opium traffic during wartime, moving from gambling and clubs to illicit drug use. It describes luxurious opium dens in London, the adoption of film tin, and a sales pitch of “Just try one whiff” that lured victims with claims of harmless pleasure.
A London drug ring uses moving picture film tins to smuggle opium into the United States while expanding its operations to New York and global trafficking. The crackdown faces legal limits, with police wary of opening tins and relying on partial detections at docks.
Etta Bollonerne fourteen year old missing from Chicago for a year was found in Morton Wisconsin working as a domestic. Sheriff Sleep of Waukesha County notified her mother Mrs Anna Bolloncino in Chicago. The girl said she traveled from Chicago to Milwaukee then to Morton and would not explain her departure.
Sylvester Rose an electrical engineer and his wife Elsie Helen Arnold were remarried in a civil ceremony in Reading. Rose said the couple had been previously married four years earlier in Cleveland by a man who posed as a minister. The article notes the marriage license had been issued and the improvised ceremony led to the remarriage.
W C DeMiller head of the federal employment bureau described the service at the Horticultural Society of Marion County gathering in the state house Indianapolis. He said the bureau reaches every community helping farmers find workers and aiding women seeking domestic employment, with flexible placements and no obligation for employers.
Clark county one of Indiana’s oldest, formed from Knox on June 20, 1790. Boundary lines followed the Ohio River and White River to Fort Recovery, with initial townships created April 7, 1801. Early seats included Springville and Spring Hill, the latter now vanished as a field.
Richmond financier R G Leeds announces purchase of a half interest in champion Percheron stallion Carnet from W Coran of Whitehall U. The deal reportedly involved $20,000. Carnet was bred in France in 1980.
An enthusiastic old man, chasing fishing sport, encounters a boy returning home with his rod over his shoulder. The lad laments lack of bait, saying patience is no help. A brief social exchange closes with playful remarks and hints of courtship.
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