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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1919
Page
15
An old wartime report highlights how planes supplied arms and food to Serbians and Montenegrins hidden in mountain fastnesses. It notes the Serbian army’s victorious advance and their touch with embedded bands, while lamenting the lack of detail from officials.
Miss Aline Helmrich of Evansville and Stephen Horny from Louisville were among visitors this week. Peter Gehl and Joe Berg of St Anthony conducted business here last Thursday. Numerous residents from Huntingburg Tell City and Schnellville visited for errands, repairs, or to spend time with friends and relatives.
The piece explains how a coin counter, counting 4,000 silver dollars per hour, would take 31 days to count a million dollars and 102 years of steady eight hour days to reach one billion, illustrating the vast scale of large figures. It emphasizes the rarity of people grasping such sums.
Walter Pritchard, city court judge, presided over Abe Murray a seventeen year old colored defendant charged with carrying concealed weapons. The revolver would not rotate automatically. the judge noted it could be turned by hand and fined Murray half the usual amount, $50 plus costs, for a non functional weapon. The Missouri mule is praised in war lore, credited with aiding British advances on the western front and showing Missouri grit.
A camp poster at Camp Lewis in American Lake Washington notes missing space for the address of an Australian who used the name Lian falrpwngwyngyllogogogoch. The man joined the army with prior residence listed as Waenarlwydd Swansea road Goverton South Wales.
Fragmented OCR line shows a misquoted inquiry to Mrs Hohensollern and a reference to royalty aboard a voyage. The readable bits mention an aerial chauffeur and sailing through a cloud with garbled names and phrases. No coherent event or identifiable entities provide a clear news item.
Small fourth century B C statues depict ancient Greek comedians with humorous features and poses. They resemble modern performers like Charlie Chaplin in their caricature, showing relaxed robes and short trousers. One Hercules statue displays a leopard skin, finger to mouth, a coquettish gaze.
Dr. Donald B. MacMillan reports Eskimo life operates on shared resources with all property held in common. Visitors are welcome to enter and eat from those who have food. If a hunter is poor, neighbors share, and meals occur irregularly as hunger dictates. Eskimos eat when hungry and sleep when sleepy, often delaying both to savor them.
The Christian Science Monitor notes an unusually early arrival of sea gulls in London this year with their annual stop at the Serpentine and Kensington Gardens round pond unlikely to bring feeding by Londoners. Feeding is now prohibited under defense regulations, forcing the birds to fend for themselves.
A fragmentary quotation from General Kenly refers to a “mascally fortune hunter” pursuing a Pittsburg heiress. The exchange includes a plan to reveal unworthiness to sway the heiress, followed by a glib remark and another person’s reply, all presented as a partial dialogue.
A Portland girl mailed soap leaves to a sergeant major of the Fifty fourth in France to help soldiers. The sergeant major replied surprised she forgot he never smoked and said a private who rolls his own nearly died of nausea from the leaves.
Marseilles now hosts around one million residents and stands as France’s largest port. The city is a major center of wealth and commerce with a strong market for southern imports and goods.
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