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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
5
Helen discovers her husband Arthur's infidelity after a jewelry gift and a Broadway chorus girl. A hospital aid encounter reveals the truth, prompting Arthur to seek divorce. Helen forgives him after he pledges to change, and he vows to pursue a proper path with her.
The valley of Huailas in the Peruvian Andes offers one of the most magnificent scenery stretches. Between the Black and White ranges the low country widens from narrow to several miles. Lush alfalfa fields, vegetables, grapevines, orange trees and figs create a tropical heart beneath snow capped peaks.
A garbled historical note discusses “knights of old” versus lawyers and questions about resource rights. The text is incomplete, with missing verbs and unclear references to figures, time, or place.
A neutral reporter describes Vienna's dire hunger and poverty after the war. Food prices rose sharply, government relief reached millions, and many dependents rely on public kitchens. Fuel, clothing, housing, and heating shortages worsen daily life as hospitals overflow and homelessness grows.
Two American women Woontoonekanuske and Teeweelema, also Charlotte and Me mda Mitchell, claim descendancy from Massasoit. The legislature weighs a bill to pen alt on these last descendants as belated honor for the chieftain’s news to Plymouth settlers. They reside near Middleboro, Massachusetts, aged seventy-one and eighty-one.
San Francisco reports Elizabeth Clark as the pioneer woman boarding officer for the immigration service. She boards incoming ships in all weather from sunrise to sunset, earns 1 during the summer, and climbs Jacob’s ladder to reach vessels. She leaps from wharf to a rolling tug and to ship ladders amid the Bay’s choppy seas.
The Nevada, built in Manitowoc in 1915, 212 feet long and steel, was purchased by M. Seckleshoff of Petrograd for about 750000. The ship will sail east via the St Lawrence to the Atlantic to load cargo for a Russian port. The Goodrich company had built and sold the vessel at a loss relative to its current value.
German cavalry officer Edgar von Schmidt Paull recalls a dawn encounter where a child crawled between trenches, triggering a shared pause. A lone German soldier retrieved the child. French soldiers cheered, and both sides laid down arms as humanity overrides combat briefly.
Doylestown farmer Edward Chittick of Plumstead township displayed potatoes at Bucks County seat to prove a high yield per acre. He raised 269 bushels of potatoes on one acre at 19 cents per bushel, with tubers averaging four pounds and some up to one and three quarters pounds. He notes low labor costs and efficient cutting, stating he can cut ten bushels in half a day.
In New Castle Pennsylvania Mike Liskas had been mute for a year after a boxing blow from his cousin John Liskas. The punch caused bleeding and prompted John to seek medical help, but Mike suddenly spoke, thanking his cousin after a long period of silence.
A resident Mrs. Jos. O Bryan of Newport Ave Ohio describes two years of illness that left her unable to walk. After taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports almost immediate relief and improved health. The ad promotes the product as a standard remedy for female ailments including displacement irregularities backache and indigestion.
The fragment shows a note about two days away from home and a poker game. A claim wife’s anger is to be pacified with a twenty dollar note. The lines hint at domestic strain and financial actions as attempted appeasement.
An advertisement extols California Syrup of Figs as a child friendly laxative that cleanses the stomach and bowels without griping. It urges mothers to use a teaspoonful for feverish or constipated children and notes bottles at 50 cents with directions for all ages. A brief street scene and a Roman Eye Balsam note conclude the fragment.
A humorous dialogue in which one character plans to buy a car while the other jokes that a doctor’s orders to stop eating potatoes will fund the purchase. The exchange plays on potato avoidance as a money saving device with a light tone.
An advertising testimonial from Waveland, April 19, 1916, extols Kilmer Kilmer Co Swamp Root as a kidney remedy. It urges readers to send ten cents for a complete booklet and promises convincing results after thirteen years of sale. It mentions a Missouri or New York address for the mail order and hints at accompanying information.
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