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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1919
Page
13
A series of short notes records residents from Evansville Mariah Hill Ferdinand and Schnellville visiting or passing through Louisville St Meinrad and Huntingburg over the past week. Names include Aline Helmrich Peter Gehl Rosatia Brenner Rube Klaeh Hanna Bischof and Angela Stratmann with various brief stops and work activities.
The piece recalls a two year long air supply to Serbian and Montenegrin bands hidden in mountains. It notes how aircraft sustained their resistance after Austro Bulgarian occupation and enabled the Serbian army’s victorious advance. The author laments missing full public details of the operation.
The piece explains the scale of a billion through coin counting by treasury experts. It notes counting 4,000 silver dollars per hour for eight hours daily reaches 32,000 dollars a day and 8 times that for a month, then expands to show that counting one billion dollars would take about 102 years of steady eight hour days.
A seventeen year old colored defendant Abe McMurray of 256 Fayette street faced trial for carrying a concealed weapon. The judge Walter Pritch ard noted the revolver was only half a gun and fined $50 plus costs, not the usual amount, for the non functioning weapon. The piece ends with a Missouri mule tribute linked to wartime grit and Missouri pride.
A camp poster at Camp Lewis American Lake Washington shows camp records blank for the address of an Australian using the alias Llanfalrpwilgwyagyllogogogoch in Anglesey. The man joined the army with a Swansea area address in South Wales.
Small fourth century B C terra cotta statues depict funny men of ancient Greece. Their lifelike figures show caricatured dress and poses, some resembling later comedians. They illustrate sharp wit without sacred restraint, even on revered figures like Hercules.
Dr. Donald B. MacMillan describes Eskimo customs of shared property and communal eating. Entering a village grants access to food, and households assist hungry neighbors. Eskimo eat on demand, not by fixed meals, delaying sleep and meals to savor them, with collective generosity depending on hunters' success.
London winter visitors, the sea guild, arrive unusually early this year. Gulls have not visited Serpentine and Kensington gardens since 1805, and river gulls continue their long habit. Feeding gulls from bridges is now forbidden by new regulations, forcing Londoners to adjust their hospitality to the birds.
A derisive exchange contrasts Germany's supposed repentance with a fortune hunter describing pursuing a Pittsburg heiress. General Kenly criticizes the hunter's claim while the listener accuses him of unworthiness, depicting a wary moral exchange.
A Portland girl mailed a soap leaves package to a sergeant major of the Fifty-fourth in France after learning soldiers there lacked soap. He replied surprised she forgot he never smoked. The package was given to a private who “rolls its own,” who nearly fainted from nausea.
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