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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1918
Page
2
The piece notes U S military bill spending sets a world record while urging citizens to back the government with saving. It critiques pro German sentiment and lauds American rights and newspaper credit for reprinting articles as local merchants push mail order sales. It calls for loyalty and awareness of American privileges.
The Gemania Herald of Milwaukee publishes An Open Confession claiming it is duty to expose blame for World War and accusing English statesmen of attempting to encircle Germany for market dominance. The piece asserts Germany’s entitlement amid tensions and rivalries.
Cartoon caption humorously quips that advertising is not a newspaper man’s free giveaway. Mickie argues readers should not expect bargains like a free sack of flour from the grocer.
A Swedish Politiken excerpt blames German leadership for World War I while defending British and Allied actions. German prisoners at Hot Springs North Carolina mock- villages carved from scraps, soon to be moved to Fort Oglethorpe as the camp relocates.
Compiled for the Indiana State Council of Defense by George Ade discusses patriotism, sugar and wheat conservation, and war measures. It notes banks aiding in guarding bonds, urges storage of securities, and urges obedience to regulations under food administration with references to canning sugar certificates and cheese as a meat substitute in Britain.
Wheat prices range from 2.10 to 2.12 per bushel. Oats 90 cents, corn 1.40, potatoes 1.10, onions 3 06 per 100 pounds, cabbage 3.60 per 100 pounds. Live stock prices include steers 16.00 per hundred, heifers 7.50 per hundred, cows 6.09 to 12.00 per hundred, hogs 16.99 per hundred, hay No 1 timothy 295.60 per ton.
A vintage health note promotes daily morning hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate to cleanse stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It asserts this internal wash improves complexion, reduces headaches biliousness bad breath rheumatism and cold susceptibility, urging readers to buy phosphate from druggists.
Entomologists warn of the European ecornstalk borer spreading from eastern Massachusetts to other areas. Farmers and gardeners must act quickly to eradicate or control the pest, which bores into corn stalks and ears and winters in crop debris. Report sightings to state agricultural college or USDA.
An authority warns daily meat intake produces uric acid that can paralyze kidney function. It claims symptoms include dull kidney pain, backache, headaches, dizziness, sour stomach, coated tongue, cloudy urine, and nocturnal irritation, with a remedy using four ounces of Rad Salts daily before breakfast.
Ohio court record notes Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co promises to pay one hundred dollars for every case of cataracts cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Oath sworn December 6, 1886 before Notary A. W. Gleason in Toledo. Includes notice on sales and other Hall products.
Administrators of the estate of Margaretha Woerter announce a public auction of Lots 6 and 19 in Ferdinand Dubois County Indiana. Sale set for August 3 1918 at 10 00 AM with payment terms of one third cash, one third in six months, and balance in nine months, secured by first mortgage and bearing six percent interest.
Rail schedule lists departures and arrivals between Ferdinand and Huntingburg with connecting Southern Railway services. Train No 1 links to trains to Evansville Rockport Cannelton and east to Louisville. Train No 8 connects to Princeton West Baden and Evansville routes. Depot at Huntingburg with Train Master Leonard Muller and Victor Craw.
The undersigned trustee of Fengle nand township in Dubois county announces daily office hours at home for township business. Persons with matters to transact are asked to present them at his home. Nick Senninger, Trustee.
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