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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1920
Page
11
Fragmented OCR reads like a patchwork of headlines and notes with several garbled phrases. Names, places, and dates are unreadable, leaving only scattered fragments to imply a missing weather, timetable, or legal notice from a Southern newspaper page.
An early 20th century health column urges both men and women to drink a hot limestone phosphate wash each morning to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims internal sanitation improves energy complexion and life, linking constipation headaches and sickness to impure blood.
The American Library Association pushes the Books for Everybody movement to extend county libraries and provide farm families with guides on drainage crop rotation and poultry. Letters from rural residents show broad demand for practical farming works and lighter topics like Collins Book of the Stars.
The American Library Association War Service supplied books to sick and disabled ex soldiers in hospitals, with special librarians in larger facilities and ward visits for smaller hospitals. Braille books for the blind are being printed, and direct book loans are available from the ALA War Service at 24 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York.
A crowded notes column lists visits and travel by locals. Hermar Seng and Susie Seger are among those in Jasper from nearby towns, with many residents from Louisville Evansville Huntingburg and Poseyville stopping in or passing through. Details cover illness, weddings, elections, and a local property sale offered southeast of town.
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