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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
2
The World promises a better paper in 1907 with foreshadowed presidential campaign coverage. It pledges impartial political news, full markets, cartoons, and fiction from standard authors. Subscription prices are stated as very low for a thrice-weekly paper.
The Ferdinand News offers a one year subscription package priced at one dollar sixty five cents. The offer appears to be an introductory rate aimed at new readers in the community. Subscribers gain access to local news, events, and advertisements.
The Rev R I Hicks announces the 1908 Almanac with beauty, colors, half tones, astronomical engravings, and a full year of weather forecasts. Price 35 cents by mail and 30 cents on news stands. Word and Works magazine offers monthly forecasts and family reading. Subscription $1 a year includes an almanac. agents wanted.
A father and his small son attend an afternoon circus and return home filled with awe. The child, hungry and excited, suddenly bursts into a wailing yell claiming the elephant was not big enough to satisfy him. The tale captures pure joyful delirium turning to comic heartbreak.
Paddy the Pig in Cincinnati Times-Star tale seeks a bulldog. Oyster Tommy pretends a dog exists and offers a tea room delivery, then returns with a real bulldog claiming he raised it from a pup. Paddy pays ten dollars but asks for a pedigree, Tommy laments not being asked earlier.
The waltz marks a hundred years this year immortalized by Lord Byron. Experts in dance meet annually to test new saltatory ideas, but the waltz remains unrivaled. It holds its own against rivals, inspiring haunting melodies and winning many hearts as it endures forever.
A Paris scientist claims buttermilk is a life prolonger and the Pasteur Institute is producing buttermilk tablets. Gen Weaver praised soft water for longevity while urging citizens without cows to use lozenges, nibble occasionally, and observe effects as a harmless aid to aging.
Yale students coin terms for women of varying attractiveness A Glory marks a very attractive young woman A Gloom denotes average appeal while a Ball of Fire describes a highly charming guest for college parties The terms alongside peach pippin corker appear in the list of vernacular slang from the era
The grain serves as the common unit to compare weight tables. A pound tray and the apothecaries’ pound each amount to 5760 grains, while the pound avairdu pois equals 7000 grains. Various scales use different systems, but they are not widely used commercially.
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