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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
5
The page notes rainy weather around Pere and visits by Mrs Tacale Ceacucen and Miss Livia Senlaguers, plus a New Year celebration at Poh Arehert Sane. It lists livestock, produce prices from Evansville Indiana dated January 6 1920, and local notices about farm workers, military recruitment, and St Boniface parish statistics.
In St Meinrad Henry Meyer and Sir Aucusia Berthe Jett visit Logie Du after a meal. Mrs. Meyer and Miss Anna Allmann also appear. Leo Knust visits from Neenneville while Joe Buexting travels to Buntingburg on business. Dos sta is mentioned with uncertain details.
A brief newspaper blurb extols The Courier as Evansville’s best paper in a cheerful greeting. The line invites readers to notice the publication’s standing and friendly tone.
The timetable lists routes from Ferdinand to multiple towns with departures and arrivals in a period. it notes trains from southern highway depots via Tanatingbure and Miller station, with connections to West Baden and Keaneville. The fragment mentions Huntingburg and Reekport, and references line names and times in a historic rail schedule style.
Miss Iva Chapman a rural Wellman telephone operator kept the exchange running during the 1918 flu outbreak. She worked night and day aiding doctors and neighbors before contracting the disease herself. Subscribers later erected a monument in her memory in the local cemetery.
An advertisement touts Hamburg Preast Tea as an inexpensive vegetable remedy for colds and grip. It instructs a tablespoonful brewed in boiling water, strained, and sipped during the day or before bed. Claiming to open skin pores, relieve congestion, and loosen bowels, it markets as safe and harmless.
A vintage ad touts St Jacobs Oil as a harmless cure for rheumatism pain. It claims rapid relief from aching joints, muscles and bones, sciatica, lumbago and neuralgia, urging readers to use a 35 cent bottle rubbed on the tender spot for instant comfort.
In Manila a luncheon brought together Democratic and Nacionalista leaders as they push immediate independence for the Philippines. Senator Teodoro Sandiko and Speaker Sergio Osorio urged Resident Commissioner Gutbaldon to press Congress and the American public to grant full sovereignty to the Philippines.
The Philippine Press Bureau argues that Irish independence sympathy in Congress would be less persuasive than granting Philippine independence. It says 10,500,000 islanders demand freedom and that U S representatives report readiness for independence. It urges Britain to act as proof of U S commitment to self determination.
Gregorilo Cailles, a Filipino from the Philippines, returned home in French uniform bearing the Croix de Guerre with palm. He arrived in France in December 1916 as a private, quickly earning distinction for bravery when he led a charge after all officers in his company were killed.
The Ferdinand township trustee in Dubois county Indiana will handle township business daily at his home office. Persons with township matters to transact are asked to present them at his residence. Nick Senninger, Trustee, Ferdinand Indiana.
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