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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1917
Page
8
A steady rain Monday evening boosted crops with many fields yielding well. Local residents note wheat harvests advancing, including Ernst Bauer with about 500 bushels at 32 bushels per acre. Various townsfolk visited relatives, attended services, and socialized amid church patron events.
Maria Hill and family arrived for a several week visit. John Brenner left for Eldorado Illinois to take a position with Salina Bottling Co. Mrs Rachel Bauer of Owensboro visited relatives, and Father Andrew Bauer was in Owensboro. Jack Stallmann and Mr and Mrs Joe M Schum and children took a car trip to Grandview Sunday to visit Wohin Koenig and family.
Weather in Siberia is fine with a promising rain Monday evening to help crops. Mr. and Mrs. George Kunkler visited Paul Jasper last Sunday. Gilbert Arehart and William Tempel stopped by St. Meinrad for a pleasant call. Sunday evening fog.
Frank Tempel, Mr and Mrs Alex Ernst, Gerhard Gehlhausen, Wm Mullis, and Vernon Murray are listed as having pleasant trips to Ferdinand Felix Linetti St Meinrad and Siberia on recent Sunday and Saturday evenings with no incidents reported.
The fragment lists church events and names such as Anna M. Metzger on Tuesday, Peace, J. E. Thursday, Gustav Woerter’s parents, Louis Broermann, Peter and Theresia Schmitt, and states Congregation activities across the week.
Grandmother used a Sage Tea and Sulphur mix to darken faded hair. The Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound, sold in drugstores, allegedly restores natural color with daily applications. The ad claims quick, natural darkening without obvious use and cautions it is a cosmetic, not a disease cure.
Ad claims backache signals liver and kidney trouble and promotes Sanoit as a remedy. A 350 bottle convinced users of its liver and kidney benefits. Mentions a monstery accident and a bent front axle in a stray fragment.
A 21 year old male resident of Dubois County Indiana applies to the Dubois County Board of Commissioners at the next August term 1917 for leave to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquor in quantities under a quart with on premises consumption allowed until April 2 2018. The requested premises are a 15 by 26 foot room on ground floor of a two story frame building on a 120 acre tract in section 82 west of the railroad in Cass Township with permission to carry on luncheon and confectionery sales under the act regulating liquor licenses.
Mathias Olinger applies to Dubois County Indiana for renewal of license to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquor in quantities under a quart with on premises consumption through April 2 1918. Property described as 23 by 37 feet room on ground floor of two story concrete building southeast corner of lot 123 Ohio Street Ferdinand. The applicant is a 21 year old male resident of 90 days and claims good moral character.
A fragment advises drinking a glass of hot water each morning with a teaspoonful of salt to cleanse the digestive tract. It compares the body to a furnace, claiming daily intake leaves indigestible material and toxins that enter the blood if not flushed out.
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