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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1921
Page
3
A vintage remedy claims to darken gray hair and restore luster using Sage Tea and Sulphur. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound is advertised as a natural looking tint that disguises gray, brightens shine, and gives a youthful appearance with regular use.
For sale Fox or coon hound pups ready for hunting season. Satisfaction guaranteed. Contact Martin Durchholz in Ferdinand Indiana.
An old advertisement touts four ounces of Rad Salts as a daily morning remedy to neutralize urinary acids and flush the kidneys. It markets Jad Salts as a harmless, inexpensive drink aiding sluggish kidneys, with a final plug for Daunhofer’s ice cream.
Relief promised for clogged noses and head passages with Ely's Cream Balm. Apply a small amount to nostrils to soothe inflamed mucous membranes and restore breathing. Also mentions a big picnic in Ferdinand on the thirty-first.
Hubert Albert fell from a hay load while driving Joe Schnau's team last week, breaking his left arm and spraining the right wrist.
In Harpers Magazine, James Norman Hall recalls Barad a native constable on a lonely South Sea atoll. Barad and a crew of stokers mingle humor and bravado, flashing English phrases and a dry fountain pen as props in social theatrics amid colonial life.
The article traces polo back over two thousand years with twelve varieties. It notes early Persian forms with four per side and yardage differences, Constantinople's 12th century version with a small apple-sized ball, and later Chinese and Japanese adaptations. It links modern Manipur and Gilgit polo to ancient Indian roots, though older forms were rougher.
The piece argues the navigator who explored the North River was Henry Hudson not Hendrick, noting he never used Dutch form and preferred English spelling. It cites Irving's whimsy as the source of the Dutch form Hendrick.
Investigators study the wavy leg movements of centipedes and millipedes. They find legs move in synchronized waves with a fixed number of waves along the body. Millipedes show synchronous waves on both sides while centipedes alternate sides, likened to pacing and trotting gaits.
The article notes that marbles are among the oldest games, played by children in ancient Rome and Egypt long before Rome. It mentions nuts used in Rome for the game and cites the proverb “to give up the nuts” meaning to abandon childish things.
A wartime report in the Advertiser describes squalid Tokyo shits with low buildans, two parallel rows of tacnis, and alleys forming narrow open spaces. It notes two story houses in Asakusa and Narishiro districts, often misery piled upon misery, with families living in one room and eight to ten members per household.
In a humorous Harper's Magazine excerpt, a man recounts observing two Neqpalitiais in conversation in Nagiles. The scene centers on gestures and a failed attempt to interpret, leading to the punchline that they were “optly chatting about the weather.”
A Scientific American note describes a new bead design for insulating wires. Beads are rounded at one end and flattened at the other to interlock, allowing full coverage without hindering wire bending.
A satirical note from the Buenos Aires World mocks editors shown as town exhibits at a press club carnival hall. The piece describes spectators and exhibits, joking about editors and their weighty brows, with warnings to the public to avoid the bars and not poke the exhibits.
The text notes four core dairy cattle sources: Jersey and Guernsey isles via the English Channel, Ayr in Scotland, and Friesland in Holland. It claims people in all eight regions are kind to each other and to animals, and that kindness yields better beef and more cream.
Numerous residents from Louisville Jasper New Boston Evansville and Cincinnati were in town for visits or travel. Names include Beekmann Ram sey Salb Logsdon Schoenhol Weigand Muller Hackmann and many others as they visited relatives attended repairs and surveyed work at mills boilers and carpentry sites across Ferdinand Schnellville and St Meinrad.
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