Gossip and Local Visits Highlight Caroling Week
Me and Mrs John Gerber spent last Monday at Ferdinand. Geo and Miss Edna Bauer of Louisville are visiting grandparents Mr and Mrs Geo Ruixer. Mrs Lena Ballis of Ferdinand spent last week with her sister Mrs Mary Neu. Mr and Mrs Ed Ringemann spent Saturday at Rockport. Misses Lucile and Faith Sumner attended a Santa Claus picnic Tuesday. Brother Alois of St Meinrad and Carl Land of Hotland were in town Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gerber
Ferdinand
Geo
Miss Edna Bauer
Louisville
Geo. Ruixer
Lena Ballis
Mary Neu
Mrs
Ed Ringemann
Rockport
Lucile
Faitd Sumner
Alois of
St. Meinrad
Carl Land of
Hotland
Evansville
Rain brings needed relief as Siberia reports weekend showers
A light to moderate rain fell Saturday and Sunday in Siberia providing much needed relief. Many residents traveled locally for visits and recreation, including Rev Isadore Maenner taking a short break and numerous residents visiting relatives in Ferdinand Evansville Louisville and Indianapolis. Community members attended weekend gatherings while a few returned from trips and camps noting favorable experiences at Camp Taylor The text lists many residents and travel notes with brief comments on visits and domestic affairs.
Local Visits Highlight Weekend in Johnsburg
Residents and visitors fill the town with weekend trips and calls. Anna Spechtor van Ville and Mrs. Hoffmann host activities while John Guepfrich and Ferdinand kin travel to Boonville. Several locals spend Sundays at Ferdinand West Baden French Lick Lincoln City and Jasper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Jochem
Tillie Edele
West Baden
French Lick
FULDA NOTES ON LOCAL HAPPENINGS AND CROP YIELDS
Peter Rupprecht Jank Hildenbrand and Herman Collig left last week for Camp Sherman Ohio. Benedictine Sisters departed for Ferdinand Convent for summer vacation. A daughter Emilia Gertrude born to Mr and Mrs Leo Strehler on June 25. Wheat yields: Joe Weaver 782 bushels and Walter Crinsor 55 bushels. Mrs Frank Goetz returned from Rockport after a week with Jon Shatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Rupprecht
Jank Hildenbrand
Herman Collignon
Sherman
Ohio
Ferdinand
Leo Strehler
Emilia Gertrude
Joe Weaver
Walter Crinsor
Frank Goetz
Rockport
Jon Shatter
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Patent Memorandum in Toledo
Frank J. Cheney sworn in Toledo Ohio as senior partner of F J Cheney Co promising 100 dollars for every case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notary public A W Gleason cites oath dated December 6 1886. Company advertises testimonials and sales through druggists with Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Thay
Hall
Frank J. Chnney
A. D
A. W. Gleason
Notary Public Hall
Th. Hall
Sage and Sulphur Compound Promises Darker Hair
Advertisement touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready to use hair darkener. It claims gray hairs vanish after a few applications, leaving hair glossy and youthful looking. The product is described as a cosmetic, not a medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyeth
Wryeth
Early Christian Mission to China and Taiping Rebellion Roots
The piece traces the 1845 permission for foreigners to teach Christianity in China after the war with Britain, the mixed reception by locals, and the Taiping uprising led by a self-proclaimed brother of Jesus aiming to restore Shang-ti worship, with Emperor Taou-Kwang's death in 1850 and the rise of Hieng-Fung.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Great Britain
Taou-Kwang
Hieng-Fung
Manuscript of Dumas tale sells for 240 in Paris auction
At Hotel Drouot Jules Clarette collection sold includes Alexandre Dumas Fils manuscript Tale of a Lottery from 1851. The 16 pages include a letter from Dumas to Clarette stating payment of 240 francs, a sum he found oddly large compared with his later contract for La Dame aux Camellias, bought by Michel Levy for 80 dollars.
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Dumas
Michel Levy
Quaint Legend of Alsace and the Giant Peasant Tale
A Christian Science Monitor piece recalls a local Alsace legend about a family of giants living in a castle. The daughter of the house, a child of massive size, carries a peasant, horse and plow to show her father how labor sustains the land. The giant warns to return them, and afterward peasants are left unmolested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alsace
ChristiIan Science Monitor
Bug Fight Contracts In Paris Barracks
In the era of Louis Philippe, monsieur Terrat held a bug fighting duty in Paris barracks. An 1846 general inspector order created contracts paying 90 centimes per sleeping room and 50 centimes for repeat work. He treated arms racks, guard houses, police quarters, and prisons, but his offer to reveal the secret for indemnity died with him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Louis-Philippe
Monsieur Terrat
Paris
le Cr de Paris
A Real Compliment from a Philadelphia Housebreaker
Billy Sunday visited Moyamensing prison where a housebreaker, impressed by Sunday's conversation, pledged to embrace a Christian life after discharge. The guard recalled Sunday’s impact, saying the preacher turned him inside out and made him sick of himself.
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Billy Sunday
Nps
Philadelphia
Sunday
Moyamensinog
Poe
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The
Beckmann State Bank
Siberia
Isadore Maenner
John Uebelheer
Mayme” Hollander
Huntingburg
Bertha Schlachter
Bischof
Edna Bauer
Lilla Roxer
Jake Meyer
Hubert Roxer
Herbert Becher
Verena Roxer
Kravces Eversmany
Boxer
Maxwell
Grace Cherry
Troy
Mrs Henry Chewning
Ben Gessner
Joe
John S@yger
Nora
Clara Jasper
Indianapolis
Marguerite Fetter
Hom
John Arehart
Laura
Mamie
William Ebner
Camp Taylor
William
Hubert Ernst
Katie and
Frances Fischer
Join Arehart
Johnsburg
Anna Spechtor Vansville
John Guepfrich
Boonville
Miss A da
Robert
Jasper
John Buening
Hannah Leibering
Eisa Leather
Naoman Kemp
Pearl Heller
Lincoln City
Will Gaus
Albert Hohl
Sununday
Fulda
Ind
Secret
MSCAT
FLOM
McCall’s
Roya
Addrena Turmclall CO
West 37Th Street
New York
Alexandre Dumas Fils
Electric Light & Power Co., of
Ferdinand, Ind
E. E. Metzger
EK. Metzger
G. P. Shears
Palmer
Jasper, Mnd
Bor
Joseph Kitten
Po Geepirich
Rosa Keans
Jos. Loeken
Jon. Ebert, Jr
Harry Kippenbrock
Bernard Bolte
Martin Kluach
Simon Sebum
Edmund Hass
J. H. Beckmann
Sauer
George A. McLane
Poptaffice
Sonsinger Bldg
Fedpinand
Brown Brothers Company
Continental
Rochester
Jay
West
Laniville
Jochem
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