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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1917
Page
7
An advertisement touts Croxone as a cure for back pain, kidney and bladder trouble, rheumatism, and related symptoms. It claims the remedy cleanses kidneys, dissolves uric acid, and removes waste from blood, with a money back guarantee if it fails in any case.
A travel sketch of Kobe contrasts a Westernized hotel scene with the city’s vibrant Japanese quarters. It notes crowded streets, rickshaw pullers, and vast telegraph pole forests shaping the modern Kobe landscape despite a lingering cherry blossom stereotype.
Dr Beverley Robinson in the New York Medical Journal warns against excessive pasteurized milk and proprietary foods for young children two or three years old. He notes rickets can appear even in wealthy families under good hygiene and links the condition to insufficient animal fat protein and calcium in the diet.
Fernando DeSoto, the Spanish explorer, is linked to early American history as the first European to see the Mississippi. He joined expeditions in 1519 and 1527, left his patron Dom Pedro de Avila in 1528, and returned to Spain in 1537 to marry Isabella after years apart.
The article notes the tropical appreciation for oranges due to thirst quenching quality and refined eating. In Porto Rican cities push cart vendors sell oranges for a cent each, peeling them to remove the rind while leaving a thin white coat. The fruit can be sucked dry without staining fingers, a skill attributed to true peeler artists.
Professor Boys of England experiments with bubbles to create colored backdrops for photographs. He blew huge bubbles, heated soap solution, dipped a large funnel, and used a bellows to form bubbles up to two and a half feet in circumference.
A fragmentary OCR item mentions a persona linked with song or performance. Readable text is limited but suggests a focus on a singer or figure named in truncated form. No clear event date, location, or organization is identifiable.
Time table for the Ferdinand Railroad effective Sunday April 8 1917 lists departures from Ferdinand to Huntingburg and back with connections to Southern trains to Evansville Rockport Canneston Louisville Princeton and West Baden. Train masters Leonard Muller Victor Grewe and G F. & P B A signed the notice in Huntingburg Ferdinand Indiana.
Incomplete timetable shows trains between Huntingburg and Louisville with connections to local points. Agent Jochem lists Johnsburg as a nearby station in the damaged clipping.
A home remedy claims common garden sage with sulfur can turn gray hair darker. An improved preparation uses Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur, sold in large bottles, offering a simpler, costlier option to avoid graying.
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