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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1912
Page
8
Reader advisory from William A Radford notes hillside homes offer better drainage sunshine and privacy. Describes a 36 by 51 foot house with reception hall parlor living and dining rooms sewing room three bedrooms servant’s room bath and kitchen. Emphasizes site shaping to knoll contours and terrace style design for elevated views and healthful light. Est. cost sixty five hundred dollars built with wood grace materials.
In New York Brooklyn Williamsburg at 580 Metropolitan Avenue a folding bed trapped Alfred Eberhardt Mary his wife and their nine month old Josephine. Police broke in with neighbors as cries for help drew attention. All three were freed and a doctor treated the family.
Skeletons uncovered in Craigshill El lensburg Washington include eleven primitive men with sloped foreheads and two front tooth rows found twenty feet underground in a dry shale cement rock. Jaw bones exceed modern sizes. femur reaches twenty inches, indicating height around eighty inches. Professor J P Munson of the state normal school calls the bones primitive with low intelligence, and notes teeth wear from eating uncooked foods and crushing hard substances.
Eleven year old Henry Mathews earned a Carnegie hero medal after lowering himself head first into a fifteen inch bore thirty feet deep to reach Bennie Grant a three year old who had fallen in. He was lowered twice before succeeding on the third attempt and carried the child to safety.
Fragmented text references several proper names including Herbert Kaufman and Vora. It hints at a discussion about costs, responsibilities and a potential future action. The source text is incomplete and lacks clear events or dates.
Practical guide to preparing Swisa Chard Lettuce Spinach and other greens. Methods include boiling steaming and cream soup style uses for leftovers. Tips cover pea asparagus beets beans celery and stalks with butter vinegar oil salt pepper and white sauce.
A historical note lists common injuries and remedies emphasizing swift action. It covers lightning, sunstroke, fainting, clothing fires, building fires, gas suffocation, bleeding, poison antidotes, and general guidance to send for a doctor promptly. It warns against stimulants and notes ammonia and oils as possible aids.
The university president endures a fearfully tense moment with dark circles, pallid lips, and a haunted gaze. He confesses to his wife a nightmare in which the trustees demand he pass the freshman admission exam, revealing a rattled nervous system and grave anxiety.
An old advertisement promotes Murine Eye Remedy as a gentle, fast acting solution for tired weak and inflamed eyes and granulated eyelids. The PAxton Toilet Co Boston Mass markets Paxtine as an aseptic eye remedy at 25 cents per box with postpaid availability through druggists.
A fragmented Brooklyn Life page item mixes a mock dialogue about coal size a 2000 pound ton and quirky quotes. The clippings include patent medicine ads for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and Garflehal tea touts, plus proverbs and general consumer jibes.
An Atchison woman on a shopping trip spotted lace at seven dollars and fifty cents a yard. While she weighed buying a few dollars worth, a farmer’s wife arrived and left without purchasing any lace.
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