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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1917
Page
3
A misc. 1908 1916 era paper snippet includes post office facts, rate cards for subscriptions and advertising, notes on local civic life, and quips on war, roads, and editorials. It references munitions production in Great Britain and America, marriage jokes, and a tongue in cheek take on Prohibition era debates.
The Ferdinand Railroad publishes a December 3 1916 timetable show ing morning and evening departures between Ferdinand Huntingburg and surrounding points. Connections are listed to Southern train No 12 to Evansville Rockport and Cannelton and to Louisville heading east. Other connections link to Princeton West Baden and Evansville Rockport Cannelton. Route notes indicate trains operate from the Southern Railway depot in Huntingburg Indiana.
The report details receipts and disbursements across funds including Township, Road Fund, Dog Fund, and Special School Fund. It lists balances on hand, year receipts, final balances, and specific disbursements such as taxes, school expenses, road work, insurance, and maintenance. Trustee Nick Senninger signs off with tax rates and fund totals.
A medical quack extols drinking hot water with limestone phosphate before breakfast to flush stomach liver kidneys and bowels. The piece claims this daily practice cleanses the alimentary tract and recovers youth by removing body poisons and toxins.
Governor Goodrich will appoint four commissioners to the Indiana Highway Commission and has declared at least three selections, though incognito. He argues for unpaid service to attract top talent and cites Wayne county Michigan road wear as a cautionary example while noting his own road-building background and a brick street he built in Winchester.
The article argues that improving roads is essential for education as it links better access to schools with higher attendance and consolidation. It notes rural schools suffer from poor roads, hindering transport, attendance, and the move to consolidated, graded schools with high school programs, while improved highways would make schools community centers year round.
The document lists federal road fund allocations for fiscal year ending June 30 1917 by state including New York 260 720 27 New Jersey 69 212 68 Connecticut 31 090 44 Delaware 8 184 37 Maine 48 451 50 Maryland 44 047 22 Massachusetts 73 850 00 New Hampshire 20 996 62 Pennsylvania 89 644 17 Rhode Island 11 665 71 Vermont 22 848 47 For 1918 funds will double and for 1919 triple through 1921 quintuple. Indiana highway department noted as a future recipient.
M. E. Noblet, secretary of the Hoosier Motor Club and editor of the Hoosier Motorist, drives the drive for statewide road legislation. He chairs a committee of forty organizations backing the highway plan now before the General Assembly to place Indiana among leaders in proper road laws.
Agreements signed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the California State Highway Department authorize five concrete roads with asphalt wear, part of the state system. The projects exhaust roughly the first year’s allotment of 161,063.92 dollars. Other states nearby include Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Arizona, and Ohio.
A garbled note suggests a state highway department may counteract practices by contractors who adjust bids to meet requirements. The fragment mentions a double inspection and aims to establish oversight to prevent such tactics. No clear entities or dates are identifiable in the text.
Michael Uebelhor applies to Dubois County Indiana for leave to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors in a room 20 by 30 feet on the ground floor of a one story frame building lot 18 Beckmanns addition Ferdinand town. The room fronts Ohio Street and will allow sale of luncheon mdae for one year from license date under state liquor laws.
Prices for wheat 1.80 1.83 per bushel oats 65c per bushel corn 7c per bushel potatoes 1.87 per bushel eggs 38c per dozen creamery 4c lb hensa 15c lb old roosters 7c lb ducks 13c lb turkey hens 19c lb old turkey 17c lb geese 1b steers 8.00 9.50 per hundred heifers 5.50 8.56 per hundred cows 5.00 7.25 per hundred bulls 4.50 7.50 per hundred hogs heavies 11.05 per hundred hay no 1 timothy 15.00 per ton.
A vintage health ad promotes Jad Salts as a cheap remedy to flush kidneys, reduce bladder irritation, and ease backache. It prescribes four teaspoons in water daily for six days and claims toxins and acids are flushed within hours. The ad touts grape and lemon juice lithia blend as a kidney tonic and urges regular use.
Advertises Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a 50 cent hair darkener. Claims to turn gray, faded hair into dark lustrous color overnight and restore a youthful appearance. markets to those worried about aging hair.
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