15 Jan 1915
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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1915
Page
1
Kathlyn learns her father Col. has been imprisoned in Umballa where a pretender king claims heirship. She faces a challenge to rule after her father’s death and must pass two ordeals with wild beasts. John rescues her life as danger fragments split the party.
Outside the palace, Rajah bears Kathryn in the howdah as a drunken mahout guides the beast toward a city gate. They move past Hindus at sacred ghats and a funeral pyre where a high caste widow prepares to immolate herself, despite British law and growing tension.
Kathlyn, after a perilous escape from Allaha, commands Rajah the elephant to kneel and allow her back into the howdah. Food and water appear as if by magic, sustaining her as she contemplates reaching the village ahead. Moonlit ruins of a temple portico loom in the distance.
Kathryn Hare enters a moonlit Hindu temple near a jungle village. A holy man deems her the revived priestess while two Brahmin custodians guard the sarcophagus and a lion prowls the portico. She contemplates escape as tensions rise over a shattered idol.
Retired Rear Admiral John B. Pillabury says the Gulf Stream carries about ninety billion tons of water hourly through the Florida Straits. He calls the stream the grandest and most mighty terrestrial phenomenon, in a letter to National Geographic Society.
The quote asserts that friendship halves the burden of struggle. It says a man feels supported when comrades share danger in the same caves and when loved ones and their prayers fortify his resolve for victory.
A vintage advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as a gentle, effective laxative for children and adults. It contrasts with harsh remedies like calomel, claims quick stomach and bowel cleansing, and suggests a 60 cent bottle with full directions on the label.
A prompter narrates a backstage labor heavy in timing and misdirection. The unseen figure keeps lines, cues, and scene actions flowing, from shouting Help to dropping planks and shouting bark. The piece recalls the prompter’s critical yet silent role in theater.
An old home hair darkening remedy, Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy, is advertised as restoring natural color to faded or gray hair. The ad claims it conditions scalp, stops dandruff and hair loss, and darkens hair naturally after regular applications.
Instructions describe sealing rusted pipes with wet asbestos paper to extend furnace life by a year. For kitchen cracks a cement from beaten egg, ashes, and stove polish is spread to harden and hide the crack with a glossy finish.
An advertisement for Cuticura emollients claims to clear skin pimples blotches redness and roughness soothe scalp dandruff itching and chapping hands. The offer invites free samples by mail via a cut postcard to Cuticura Dept Boston and notes availability everywhere.
Benny reports to his mother at home that the new teacher has fine teeth, nearly gilded and gilded edged, sparking humorous commentary on appearance.
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