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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1917
Page
8
Local residents share visits and travels with relatives in Louisville Fulda Bristow and Detroit while others attend teachers institutes. Population statistics for the year show 133 deaths 369 births and multiple diseases including small pox diphtheria and typhoid.
During holidays residents visit kin and friends in nearby towns. John Merkley returns to Nashville medical college after two weeks with family. Miss Mary Sternberg visits Ferdinand. Josh Rusche visits from Lowinsville. Miss Lula Hasenour tours Louisville as the town's telephone girl. John Witmer stays with relatives in Louisville. Paul Ehrman travels to Bretzville and Montingburg on rural route business. Deputy Sheriff Geo Abell helps summon witnesses as the Sternberg Brenner guests dine on water melon in August.
Peter Neukam was in Huntingburg on business. Tom Gross of Troy visited Troy Chair Co. Arthur Hay and Charles Bar net visited French Lick and West Baden. Miss Marie Humbert of French Lick spent time with her sister Mrs Jos Kempf. George Gress of Celestine was in town on Dubois Machine works business. Ben Nordhoff of Hall township and Ed Nordhoff visited Jasper. Charles Bamberger of Huntingburg was in town on business. Homer Smith of Appleton Husker Co. represented the machine works.
Mike Agnes and John Rupprecht visited Hunting Woe and Burg on business. Evansville residents came home for a brief family visit. Miss Mary Richl of Evansville visits her mother here for several weeks. Martin Wink completed a new barn with son William as contractor. Heavy rains flooded lowlands and delayed mail for three days. Much tobacco has been stripped and is moving to market. Theodore Peters of Ferdinand greeted friends in town. he is known for inventing the Pet-Son Pneumatic Pump.
The Evansville Courier debuts a rotogravure section for the New Year edition featuring Evansville in color pictures. It showcases new architectural feats including a half million dollar hotel, a 6000-seat coliseum, a government dam and locks, and three National Bank buildings costing half a million each, noting Evansville’s population at 190,000.
A list of real estate deeds with buyers and sellers across Huntingburg Mentor Hayrville and Jasper areas. Transfers include various lots and parcels from 0.26 to 80 acres with prices from 1 to 2000 dollars. Notable names include Milburn Pettitheira Hemmerlein Geiss Schwartz Hoffmann Schaaf and Weell among others.
An old newspaper advert urges Americans to combat kidney trouble by using four ounces of Rad Salts daily, taken in water before breakfast. It claims kidneys overwork from rich foods, flushing with lithia based salts that flush and stimulate clogged kidneys and neutralize urine acids. Jad Salts is advertised as inexpensive and safe.
Mr and Mrs John F J Schurz and son Carl are visiting friends at Petersburg. Miss Anna Partenheimer spent several days at Ferdinand.
On premises a notice warns hunters to refrain from hunting or trespassing. Names listed include John Altmeyer Lawrence Wilmer John Nord Anton Halbleibh Henry Schaeffer Frank Buhaeffer Joseph Alteyer Joseph Ketzner John Hassfurther Theodore Motager John Laake Mat Hasefurther Ben Madson Joe Wilmer Frank J Harts Joseph Lueken Gaenser Bros Ben Schaeffer Ben Laake Anton Schaeffer Florens Kitten.
An old advertisement promises instant relief from nasal congestion and catarrh. Ely's Cream Balm is pitched as fragrance infused antiseptic relief that penetrates head passages, easing swelling and dryness for quicker breathing. Apply a small amount in the nostrils for rapid comfort.
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