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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1919
Page
8
Market figures list prices for wheat oats corn potatoes onions cabbage and butter in Evansville Indiana with per bushel or per hundred weight rates. Livestock and poultry prices include turkeys chickens hens and cows with ranges for heifers and bulls. Hay is priced by ton for No 1 Timothy.
An old advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound to darken gray hair evenly and cheaply. The text contrasts home brewed sage tea versus the ready-made preparation, promising a youthful look with little muss.
Roald Amundsen and Storker Storkerson drift east and west respectively from Atlantic and Pacific pack ice toward Siberian Islands near the Arctic Ocean mouth of the Lena river. Authorities expect them to reach the islands early next year, with Amundsen planning air-assisted final ascent to the pole.
Greek girls enrolled in American Red Cross nursing courses at Massachusetts General Hospital and other Boston hospitals are soon to sail for Greece as part of the Red Cross mission. Four completed their training and, with Greek legation permission, join the Greek mission creating goodwill and strengthening ties between Greece and America. A second group from Boston trains at Simmons College in dietetics and home care and expects to sail for Greece soon.
The Sevres lighthouse for blinded soldiers is expected to aid re education through pottery. Eight blinded men have graduated from the modeling class into government shops, and land has been allocated to build a training school for blind potters to feed nearby factories.
Sergeant R F Eddy writes to his father about a brutal football game between the engineers and medical corps in France. He says both sides fought fiercely and one French observer quipped that if that is what Yankees call play, he'd hate to see them fight. About five thousand French soldiers watched.
A Yankee truck driver in a shattered road scene near Avecourt endures shelling and profanity then smiles, his jaw dropping in a broad grin as he salutes four stern Prussian officers passing by amid the dust and noise of war.
The Chicago Evening Post argues that returning soldiers will demand outdoor life after war. They cherish fresh air, stars, sunrises, and nature learned on campaign, turning outdoor living into freedom health and happiness. To share time with them, civilians must also spend more time outdoors.
Dr Roux of the Pasteur Institute in Paris cites experiments by Dr Michael Cohendy in which sterilized air and food produced pigs that grew three to four times faster than normal. The pigs reached a third larger size in 12 days, suggesting humans under birth antisepsis could reach far greater physical and mental powers.
The collection gathered mainly by Mr. Charles de La Ronciere is stored at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris for future historians. It includes Le Petit Feu du 18e Regiment infanterie territoriale edited by Corporal Hubuet and autographed in colors, L Echo des Tranchies edited by Paul Rehoux with contributions by Poincare Rostead Botrel and Regnier, and Echo du Ravin of the Forty-First chasseurs with a private wire to the trenchs abroad. Wide World Magazine is also mentioned.
In a Nashville Banner item two well dressed women in a streetcar discuss the headline Germany Sends Emissaries to Foch. One asks what it means and the other confesses she has no idea, illustrating their comic misreading of wartime news.
Gente Claus claims the reindeer record was set at a pace of 12 bacr by Bipene Ba toureasy, asserting the achievement as the established milestone.
Paragraph of brief itineraries lists residents and relatives visiting and returning home. Mentions include Herb Mueller in Hantingburg, Robert Uebelher in Huntingburg, Mise Hubertina Quante in Evansville, Anna Bromm in Louisville, Mrs. Joe Wessel and Wills Reckelhoff at Juniper, Mike Wirzberger in Lonsville, William Hang in Johnsburg, George Kerastiens from Camp Counter on furlough, Robert Hang visiting his mother, John Lusch in Evansville, Susie Seger in Jasper, George Becher in St. Meinrad, Mrs. Jacob Hagpedorn in Troy, Christ Hemmertein and John Brosmer in Dulcis, John C. Haassfuther in Evansville, Privates Ed Osr and Sylvester Schnieders from Camp Pike, Edwin Horny from Ft. Wayne, and Bernard Schaeffer from Bristow via Camp Box.
A promotional notice offers a $100 reward for any catarrh cure failure and claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh through blood purification. It urges readers to send testimonials and lists Toledo, Ohio as the address for the proposition.
A reader asks if Evansville's Courier is the beat paper. The inquiry reflects interest in the local newspaper status and coverage relevance.
The fragment notes Train No 13 linking Huntingburg with Train No 23, serving a route between Huntingburg and Louisville. Ambiguous text mentions 845 a.m. and toll or timing details with a reference to West and a person or signoff, JOCHEM.
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