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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
2
A wartime civic note urges readers to join the NEWS subscription, pay War Savings Stamps, and register for military duty if draft age. It mocks penny‑pinching patriotism while urging attention to street improvements and public duty as Germany’s threats loom behind Kaiser authority.
A long list of individuals from Jasper, Rockport, St Meinrad, Louisville and nearby towns were observed in town this week. Several families including Senninger Scheiper and Klueh were mentioned along with military exams and travels to Evansville Hartwell Corydon and Vincennes.
Evansville Indiana market notes list staple prices for wheat oats corn potatoes onions cabbage and farm goods. Items include wheat 27 a bushel oats 87 cents corn 1.80 per bushel hay 26 per ton and various livestock prices per hundredweight or head with dairy eggs butter and poultry also included.
A period spoof on car ownership features a narrator from Du Bois County lamenting a costly, worn vehicle. The verse contrasts past pride with current poverty and rising bills, ending with a wish to buy another car someday and speed again.
Springfield Mrs Alice Fletcher writes Cardus did wonders after 14 years of back pain bearing down pains and weakness. She took two bottles and became well and kept Cardus as a home tonic for herself and her two children. Weak women needing strength are urged to use Cardus the woman’s tonic.
An old advertisement promotes rad Salta and Jad Salts as kidney tonics. It claims meat eating harms kidneys and links kidney sluggishness to diseases like rheumatism and liver trouble. Users are urged to take four ounces of rad Salta daily to flush kidneys and neutralize urine acids.
An oath by F. J. Cheney & Co. partner asserts cure for catarrh with Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The document notes a notary public, A. W. Gleabson, in Toledo Lucas County, and states the medicine works through the blood on mucous surfaces. A promotional line urges sending for catalogs.
A health advisory urges daily morning internal cleansing with hot water and lime phosphate to flush the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims benefits include relief from dullness headaches bad breath and digestion problems and recommends a quarter pound of lime stone phosphate as a cheap aid.
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