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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
2
The New York World announces 1907 aims to improve as it foreshadows presidential campaign coverage. The paper vows fuller service with impartial reporting and prompt coverage of events worldwide at a low price.
The Rev. il R. Hicks 1908 Almanac announces delivery and surpasses earlier editions with colored cover, fine half tones, astronomical engravings, weather forecasts for the year, and illustrated content. Price by mail 35 cents, News-Stands 30 cents. Word and Works offers the magazine with forecasts, annual rate, and almanac included. agents wanted.
The article catalogs costly printing mistakes by governments. It cites incidents in the United States Austria Italy Britain and France concerning misprinted bank notes telegraph forms and money orders. Names dates and specific losses illustrate how a single misspelling or misprint triggers large cancellations and financial write offs.
Reports from Sweden note a league formed to curb women’s fashion excesses, echoing 1650 London curbs on lavish dress and long cloaks. Earlier 1465 proclamations fined shoes with excessively long toe beaks, with excommunication and fines split among the king, chamberlain, and cordwainers.
In Paris a woman with kleptomania for smoking and coloring meerschaum pipes stole from shops she frequented. Police found around 2,000 pipes in her flat, most likely unpaid for, highlighting a remarkable criminal impulse case.
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