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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1917
Page
4
Effective Oct 6 1916 the rate card lists subscription prices one year 1.50 six months 0.75 three months 0.40 and advance payment. Advertising rates include display ten cents per column inch per insertion composition three cents extra per inch business locals five cents per line. Legal advertising liquor licenses and other legal notices at legal rates minimum 5.00 monthly billing.
Community notes urge industry in 1917, call for restricting hunting on farms around Ferdinand, and announce a shift to strict cash transactions in general stores after February 1. Merchants will not extend credit. purchases will require cash or secured notes.
The text argues that adopting a cash system lowers already small profits and marks a modern, simpler way of doing business. It claims paying cash can be as easy as buying on time once accustomed to the method.
Time table lists Ferdinand to Huntingburg connections with Southern trains to Evansville Rockport Cannelton Louisville and Wear Baden. Trains 1 8 connect with multiple routes via Huntingburg depot. Officials Leonard Muller L B Jenkins G F P Ay Train Master Huntingburg Ferdinand Ind.
Market report dated January 11, 1917 lists prices for wheat at 1.80 to 1.83 per bushel, corn at sie per bushel, potatoes at 1.80 per bushel, eggs 38 cents per dozen, creamery butter 40 cents per pound, hens 14 to 18 cents, turkeys 18 to 17 cents per pound, steers 6.00 to 9.50 per hundred, deer 5.50 to 8.50 per hundred, cows 5.00 to 7.25 per hundred, pigs 4.50 to 7.50 per hundred, heavy hogs 10.60 per hundred, and timothy hay 15.00 per ton.
A health column promotes drinking a glass of hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and intestines. It claims benefits for headaches backache constipation and stomach trouble and describes the practice as a widespread inside bath.
An old home remedy, Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound, marketed in stores, claims to restore natural hair color. It recommends applying with a sponge or brush to gray strands, promising darker, evenly colored hair after one or two treatments.
Ottis Bellamy was shot in the left ear during a hunting outing when boys, including Frank Chesnar and El Kinder, played soldier using air guns. The injury required a physician to dig out the projectile, and the incident prompted reflections on the risks of playing with weapons.
Ferdinand Tad announces a shift from credit to cash sales effective February 1 1917 to offer lower prices. The change aims to reduce costs and avoid carrying unpaid accounts, promising savings for customers and inviting inquiries. Signed by Bartley Bros Henry Beckmann Sons J H Kerstiens Reekelhoff Muller.
Michael Ue Belohr applies to Dubois County Indiana for leave to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors at his Ferdinand home for one year. The room 20 by 30 feet on Lot 18 Beckmanns addition fronts Ohio Street with permission to sell luncheon and muse subject to state licensing act.
Matt Olinger is very ill at his Evansville home. Ground is covered by a mantle of snow with flakes still falling. Birth announced for John and wife with a son named Roman Joseph. A coal mine on John Metager’s farm yielded a fine vein. Grey foxes caught in a single hole on Trotter’s farm. Mike Koenig, formerly near Mariah Hill, dies at forty. Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Ferdinand reelects four officers and directors.
Jimmie giggles as the teacher reads a tale of a Roman who swam the Tiber three times before breakfast. Jimmie answers that a trained swimmer could do it, then wonders why the swimmer did not swim four times to reach his clothes on the far side.
The Cincinnati Advertisers' Club opposes a pending congressional bill to bar liquor advertising from the mails. They warn the law could set a precedent for broad censorship of printed matter and threaten press and personal rights, urging careful study before support.
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