26 Mar 1909
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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1909
Page
1
A discussion urges mothers to guide daughters toward skilled manual work as a stable career. It cites millinery, dressmaking, typing, cooking, housekeeping, advertising, and other trades as safeguards against financial ruin, arguing this builds independence and reduces female hardship.
Theodore Roosevelt left New York aboard the Hamburg American Line steamer Harmburg for a two year tour to British East Africa to collect specimens for the Smithsonian. Maj. Edgar A. Mearns J Loring Alden and Edmund Heller accompany him with Kermit Roosevelt and assistant guides.
The Payne tariff bill, aiming to raise annual revenues to $300 million, is under Ways and Means scrutiny in the House with informal Senate Finance Committee consideration. It adopts a maximum and minimum rate system, shifts numerous items from free to taxed lists, and includes an inheritance tax, higher tobacco taxes, and new bonds and credit measures.
The article passage warns about signs of poor paint indicating adulteration and urges repainting, offering a free painting guide and a color scheme book from National Lead Co. It includes a health law analogy, a joke about mustard plasters, and a story of a boy reluctant to bring his four year old sister to a school entertainment.
An abbreviated antique note describes a hunter claiming a quick result at one shot, bringing down two partridges and a hare, with a vivid old world recounting of the exploit.
A young man unable to write asks a friend to draft a love letter. The result is prose over sentiment, prompting him to apologize to his sweetheart for the absence of tender phrases.
A writer notes odd prayer variants in sermons from lay petitions to Latin insertions. A minister’s long orations trigger anecdotes, while a mother’s boast of Lily’s park walks ends with a child’s shrill reply about bears.
A reader letter from Nova Scotia recalls how diet shifted from meat heavy meals to grain based options. It credits Grape Nuts with relieving years of dyspepsia and nervousness and claims the cereal improved health for the writer and his family.
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