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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1907
Page
2
The notice lists subscription rates of one year one dollar six months sixty cents and three months twenty five cents with advance payment required. Advertising rates show full column one year one hundred dollars and fractional column rates with cents per line for business locals and monthly billing for ads.
The piece argues that wealth grows when dollars are kept within the town and trade circulates locally. It critiques trusts and urban concentration, urges expanding country town opportunities, and links farm land values to local business activity, urging home protection to boost employment and enterprise.
Dr Mayfield of Bristow visited Tuesday. F J Meellers attended Ferdinand weekend. Elie Lanmann and Misses Lissie Lanmann Minnie Aders were in Johnsburg Sunday. Mrs Josie Van Winkle visited Miss Mary Meellers Tuesday. Dr Lomax of Bristow came Tuesday. F B Moellers spent weekend at Ferdinand. John Bradshaw of Bristow in town Tuesday. Griffith a dry goods drummer from Evanaville was here Tuesday. Philip Snyder a Jew peddler in town Saturday Sunday. Robert Uebelheer and sister Mamie of Ferdinand visited Miss Eva Mullen Sunday afternoon. Leo Miller Shade Dixon and son Floyd at Ferdinand Saturday. Eric Lanman Lonzo and Philip Hoosier at Ferdinand Saturday. Hoosier Schoolboy.
Rev. Plazidus Zarn, O. S. B. returns home on vacation from nine years at St. Leon, Rayne P. O., La. Rev. Leo Schwab replaces him. Visitors include Miss Bertha Rickelmann, Miss Virginia Hendren at Jacob Boxers, and John Meyer with John Leige from Louisville. Miss Katy Brandewide and Miss Philomina with relatives visit John and Mrs Huber. Frederick Kost, member of St. Josephs Benevolent Society, fell from a scaffold injuring shoulder blade and two ribs. hospitalized in Nashville Tennessee. He left town ten years ago and recently lost his second wife.
Readers can pay one dollar to receive a year’s access to listed publications including New York World thrice weekly, Louisville Courier Journal weekly, Cincinnati Enquirer weekly, and McCall’s Magazine monthly. Offers apply to new and existing subscribers with cash with order.
Mrs. Francis Temmon sues Harley Temmon for six thousand dollars alimony and three hundred dollars legal fees. Horace Kean and Frank Betz are named as potential prosecutors in the local Democratic primary. Rev A J Strain memorial services attract church figures, with Delmmon and Milburn attendance noted. Ireland baseball team routed by Ferdinand Reds 13 to 7 on Sunday night. Rex.
Mr and Mrs Anton Huelsman visited relatives at Schnellville Sunday. Anton Drach was in Huntingburg on business Tuesday. John Kemper attended the ball game at Ferdinand Sunday. Mrs R Harrington and son Andy returned to Louisville after a visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Anton Drach. Frank Fisher of Schnellville called on Mr and Mrs Jos Gunselman Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Kenry Tretter spent Sunday evening with Frank Metzger. Ed Tretter Gilbert and Raymond Smith with Laura Tretter Katie Kemper Ida Seidl and Della Linder visited Clem Knust Sunday evening.
Mathias Olinuer applies to the Dubois County Commissioners at the next August term 1907 for leave to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors in quantities under a quart for one year at a room 20 by 20 feet on the ground floor of a two story frame building corner of lot 123 Ohio Street Ferdinand Indiana. The license includes luncheon and confection sales subject to the act regulating liquor sales.
Italy employs Michetti designed stamps with Victor Emmanuel on high values. Behring urges pasteurization as milk for infants spreads consumption. Austria reports vaccinator strikes. one district reports no child vaccination for three months. A 1882 US project nears topographical mapping completion in about a century. London dealer sells a mounted great auk for £400. twenty-specimen total exist. Remarkable Japanese mice display unusual weaving and balancing tricks.
The fragment notes that oil or fat may damage Portland cement causing cracks over months. It mentions color blindness chiefly red deficiency. A German seasickness remedy uses bright red spectacles with calomel. In Manila, buildings reportedly use oyster shell panes in place of glass.
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