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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1919
Page
3
Wheat price 1.18 per quarter? 2.20 per bale. Oats 85 cents. Corn 1.60 per bushel new 1.45. Potatoes 1.00 per barrel. Butter creamery 65 cents. Chickens 2 cents. Old roasters, turkeys 26 cents, geese 1d. Steers 600 weight 10.00 per hundred. Hogs 17.15 per hundred. Hay Timothy 24.00 per ton.
An old advertisement promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as an easy way to darken gray hair. It claims the product delivers natural looking, even coloration by applying with a sponge, with results after one or two uses and a youthful appearance.
Roald Amundsen and Starker Storkerson drift from opposite oceans on arctic ice toward Siberian islands off the Lena river mouth. Authorities expect them to reach the islands early next year, with Amundsen aiming for a polar base and a final flight to the pole while Storkerson heads toward civilization.
Greek girls in American Red Cross nursing uniforms serve in Greek hospitals. From New England, they trained at Massachusetts General and Boston hospitals and four completed courses agreed to join the American mission in Greece. Their work strengthens goodwill between Greece and America as more Greek girls in Boston study dietetics and home aid and plan to sail for Greece.
The French government plans a training school at Sevres potteries to reeducate blinded soldiers. Pottery making is taught as a skilled occupation and eight blinded men have already graduated from the modeling class into government shops. Land has been allotted for the new school to graduate potters to other factories.
Sergeant I F Eddy of the Sixteenth Engineers recounts a brutal football match in France between engineers and the medical corps. He notes five thousand French spectators watched as both sides fought fiercely, yet no one was hurt due to the players' hardened conditioning. Polly, a French observer, quipped that if that was play, he would hate to see a fight.
A Yankee truck driver, his right wheel sunk in a shell hole, breaks into a wide grin upon sighting a wounded doughboy carried by four Prussian guard appearing as a stretcher party. They advance along a drizzly road toward Avecourt with the rider’s unit beneath the swarm of rain.
A Chicago Evening Post reflection on returning soldiers redefining life after war. The piece argues civilians should value outdoor life, friendship, and honest labor, matching soldiers’ newfound love of fresh air, skies, and shared purpose, and emphasizes following them outdoors to preserve freedom, health, and happiness.
Dr Roux of the Pasteur Institute cites experiments by Dr Michael Cohendy with sterilized air and food for pigs born under glass. Despite safeguards, germs reached them. yet they grew three to four times faster than normal pigs and were a third larger in 12 days. Roux suggests humans under perfect antiseptic birth conditions could exceed present development.
A long list of early trench journals collected by Mr. Charles de La Rontiere is deposited at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris for future historians. It includes Le Petit Feho du 18e Regiment d'infanterie territorisle and L Echo des Tranchies with works by Paul Reboux and poems by Poincare Rostand Botrel de Regeler, and Echo du Ravin of the Forty-Arst chasseurs with a private wire to abroad.
Two well dressed ladies on a street car discussed a Nashville Banner headline about Germany sending mutestries to Foch. They both showed they had no idea what it meant, proving they were quasi military experts.
A historic note states the reindeer pulled 200 pounds at a ten mile pace for twelve hours, with Santa Claus credited to have established the record.
The report lists residents and visitors returning home or spending time with relatives from Huntingburg and nearby towns. Names include Herb Mueller Robert Uebelher Miss Hubertina Quante Miss Anna Bromm Mia Joe Wessel Miss Viola Reekelhoff Mike Wirzberger William Hang George Kerstiens John Lusch Miss Susie Seger George Becher Mrs Jacob Haggebourn Christ Henmerlein John Bros ter Ed Osr Sylvester Schnieders Edwin Horny Bernard Schaeffer Privates Ed Osr Sylvester Schnieders and other locals on furloughs or trips to Evansville Jasper Jasper Camp Pike Ft Wayne Bristow Custer Dubois and Troy.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as capable of curing catarrh at all stages through internal action. It offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and requests testimonials, listing F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio as proprietors and vouching for nationwide drugstore sale.
A note asks if readers have seen Evansville's Courier the city's local newspaper.
Train numbers 8 120 and 13 connect Huntingburg Louisville routes with arrivals around 845 am. A top front page mark signals expired subscription and last copy risk. Readers urged to renew promptly while game coverage remains limited by authorities.
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