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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1914
Page
6
A compact clipping promotes Red Crocs Ball Blue powder with a bold call to buy and wear bright white clothing. It also features a line from a play and a quick ad jab about a safe blower prior to boasting.
The London Globe notes that private detectives increasingly guard hostesses treasures at social events. The Carpenter of a leading agency says he has pressed a special staff for engagements, sometimes sending up to a dozen well dressed "guests" to watch pictures and china at receptions.
R F D No 2 Seymour Missouri resident L Killian describes a long struggle with eczema on scalp shoulders and body. After two years of itching burning and hair loss the condition cleared in two weeks using Cuticura Soap and Ointment as directed. Ad promotes Cuticura products and a free 32 page Skin Book at Boston address.
The quotation frames Mr. Gladstone saying the domestic problem is solved by mutual submission and alternating insistence. It notes humor about who submits and who insists and suggests marriage fails when one party dominates without reciprocity.
A wry judge quips that a man’s sins ruin him eventually, noting the inevitability of consequences as a warning to readers.
William Ryer, owner of Hound Brook lake camps, saved Game Warden E. Hodgkins by shooting a wildcat leaping toward him. The incident followed Hodgkins finding deer carcasses mauled by cats, with Ryer’s long experience in Maine and Nova Scotia guiding the hunt.
Warden Hodgkins and Mr. Ryer trail four large wildcats with three dogs. The English hound, twelve years old, directs one pursuit. Hodgkins shoots a cat from close range and a second danger to the warden is deterred as Mr. Ryer fires at another. A fourth cat eludes capture in a swamp. Hodgkins notes 15 deer were killed by wildcats last winter, with no deer shot that season.
The Calgary oil fields report production rivaling the continent's best with one well producing 2000 gallons an hour. Surface indications suggest oil across Alberta and Saskatchewan, with Manitoba showing signs. Battleford discoveries prompt lease filings on twenty thousand acres as coal and natural gas add to Western Canada's wealth optimism. Early June grain growth appears strong, wheat and oats thriving, fodder grasses gaining attention amid mixed farming trends. Weather is favorable, signaling a record crop potential for 1914.
Five year old Herbert, from a bookish family, learns to read early and recalls memory fading of storyland. He tells his mother that Ruthie showed him a new book with simple text asking if it is a dog and if the dog can run, noting the style as rather juicy.
The piece argues that railway magnates and city leaders seek farms to escape urban weariness. It asserts life is found in open country, growing crops and raising animals, where work with the land yields sobriety, thoughtfulness, reverence, and hopeful optimism. Bread er's Gazette.
New York City instructor BE Sletchur Hallamorh writes that ALLEN'S Four-Bass antiseptic powder kept his feet cool for ten years of ten hour daily dancing. He says it prevents friction, sore feet, and blisters, and he recommends it to pupils.
Floricultural expert Ignatius Tootte near Yankee Springs aims to grow a rectangular watermelon to ease carrying. He argues traditional round melons slip and bruise easily after falls, proposing a long melon with square corners designed to fit the bent elbow when carried inside the arm. Planting aims for 1927 if all goes well.
An assorted newspaper filler ad and anecdotes including Marine Eye Remedy promotional copy for eye care and a miscellaneous quotation section. Also present are humorous lines about aging and a Red Cross Ball promotion.
A Missouri woman describes long standing displacement and pelvic pain with nervous symptoms. After trying many remedies she credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring strength and alleviating the distress. The ad promotes Pinkham's product as a universal helper for displacements irregularities and nervous prostration.
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