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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1922
Page
6
Mrs Lulu Lucas of St. Louis testifies that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her back pains, weakness, and nervous stomach after a year of illness. She resumed work at home and for Swift's Packing Company and urges others to try the remedy.
A man visits a McPherson Kansas lawyer asking for papers to buy a farm and get a "norte." The lawyer explains that after a purchase a warranty deed is needed, not a mortgage note, and warns the buyer that a later mortgage could transfer the farm back. The exchange highlights a misunderstanding of real estate documents.
Two young housemaids at a well known women's college compare notes on life. Norah quips that the faculty has brains and the college girls have clothes, but the maids have the luck.
In a tense frontier moment Jim Bilkins dies after shouting fire in the Red Dog Saloon. By the time help arrives the crowd has panicked and chaos follows the fatal miscue.
Representatives from Ayrshire Brown Swiss Guernsey Holstein Jersey met in Washington May 4 called by Dr C W Larson to discuss dairy cattle improvement, advanced registry, fairs and sales. They urged cooperative bull associations and closer links with agricultural colleges to standardize tests and expand purebred use while reducing prizes at shows for educational exhibits and production emphasis.
Federal officers will monitor interstate shipments of feeds for adulteration and misbranding. Refilling used sacks with another brand or manufacturer is illegal. if brand names appear they must be true, and all misleading statements on feeds are prohibited. Inspectors will pursue violations under the Federal Food and Drugs Act.
Prof. WI AL Price, entomologist at Purdue, notes bees are crucial for cross pollination and fruit set, especially for orchid owners in rainy seasons. Bees work between showers when other pollinators fail and often determine the crop's success.
In Outman Arizona a domestic tale ends with a mock trial over a bizarre divorce case Gating vs Gatun. Starlight the flapper testifies about abductions and marital strife as jurors from Rattlesnake Charlie to Gold Tooth Nellie listen. John Outman is found liable for comic misadventures including dynamite mishaps and tarantula schemes before a light sentence of highway labor and sign painting.
Odd courtroom scene as Anton Lang and others clash over a murder case labeled Starlight. A juror’s question about marriage, objections from Attorney Topps, and a push to dismiss the jury lead to a costly dispute and a time consuming adjournment.
In Wichita Falls Texas Cass Tarver a county jailer found prisoners drunk during a jail fight. A home made still built from two one gallon cans copper coil and charcoal produced alcohol vapor condensed through a sack. Prisoners used potatoes corn and other mash to generate alcohol.
In Manchester a terrier named Jack owned by Miss Ruth Clair Laherge is set to receive a medal from the Anmead Rescue League for attempting to save a second dog swept by a heavy current. The other animal did not survive. The dog is described as part German police lineage.
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