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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1908
Page
2
A physician notes Bacon’s aging signs remain valid today. He lists long life indicators such as slow growth coarse hair rough skin deep wrinkles firm flesh a large mouth wide nostrils strong teeth and dense ears versus shorter life traits including soft hair fine skin quick growth large head early corpulence and brittle teeth.
In Britain heavy is the load of high office with roving remedies. Robert Lowe once laid 90 feet of asphalt and skated to cope with fatigue. Warl Spencer rode fast to lift gloom in Ireland. Gladstone felled trees and studied classics. Lord Handolph Churchill enjoyed racing.
Mrs Anna F Coston on Staten Island runs a unique laboratory and factory where her distress signals are manufactured for the army navy revenue service and life saving and lighthouse bureaus The signal emits a strong red white flame for two minutes and remains visible for about 20 miles The signal light formula is kept in a vault and cannot be lost
The article explains the origin of the anaesthetic Stovaine named by M Fourneau. To honour his discovery he attempted to honor his own name, but since the drug resembled cocaine no equivalent could be built from Fourneau. He translated the name into the English equivalent stove and added a suitable ending.
Seventeen major Austrian and German pictorial postal card makers agreed to raise prices by 6 to 7 percent. About 700 wholesale firms have decided that retail dealers will absorb the surcharge.
Importations of cocoa into the United States now average more than 1,000,000 dollars per month, up from about 250,000 a decade ago. During the same period, imports of tea and coffee have declined.
The Thrice-a-Week World pledges improved news coverage, impartial reporting, and broader services in 1907. It highlights increased news service, full market reports, cartoons, fiction, and a discounted subscription of $1 per year for 156 issues.
Local ad promotes a one year subscription to The Ferdinand News for a total price of 1.65. The offer invites readers to lock in a year of weekly news delivery. No additional details on payment plans or terms are provided.
The Rev. Trl R Hicks announces the 1908 Almanac with ornate cover, half tones, engravings, and complete yearly weather forecasts. Mail price 35 cents, News-Stand 30 cents. Word and Works magazine includes forecasts monthly. subscriptions $1 yearly with an almanac. Agents wanted. address Word and Works Publishing Co., Locust Street, St Louis.
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