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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1917
Page
3
Market data from Evansville Indiana dated May 17 1917 showing wheat at 2.97 per bu, corn 1.60 per bu, potatoes 3.10 per bu, eggs 0.30 per doz, butter 0.38, live stock prices including steers 11.50 per hundred, heifers 10.50 per hundred, hogs 16.10 per hundred, and hay No 1 timothy 15.00 per ton.
Time table effective April 8 1917 shows train times between Ferdinand Huntingburg and connections. Train 1 links with Southern trains Nos 12 and 9 and 5 to Evansville Louisville and West Baden. Train 3 connects with Southern Nos 6 1 and 10 to Evansville Rockport Cannelton. All trains operate from Huntingburg depot. Officials Leonard Muller Victor Grewe G F Pa Train Master. Ferdinand Indiana Southern Railway.
An advertisement extols Croxone as a superb remedy for kidney and bladder troubles and rheumatic pains. It claims the product soaks into kidneys, clears clogged pores, neutralizes uric acid, and helps filtration, promising relief regardless of duration of suffering.
The Delineator argues mail order buying drains a town’s life blood and growth by turning it into a suburb of a distant city. It urges fair deals for local tradespeople, promotion of permanent homes, and stronger civic and family pride to sustain community vitality.
An article notes American dress pattern houses in a sixteen story New York building dominate global fashion. Americans distribute Paris inspired styles worldwide via magazines read by 1,500,000 monthly, shaping noble wardrobes in England France Germany and beyond.
The article describes Butterick patterns sold globally with access in Paris Texas and Paris France. It highlights Butterick’s international reach through catalogs letters from European nobility, and an exhibit at the New York plant featuring original letters from titled ladies ordering patterns. It notes a Royal household letter about the Prince of Wales as a child and asserts American fashion leadership.
A Royal Society address recalls 1866 and 1891 events where river flood freshening killed mollusks in Port Jackson. Mussels oysters limpets and periwinkles died as salinity dropped while fish and crabs escaped. Freshwater influx sparked red Grenadinium blooms fouling waters.
The tropical belt between the thirteenth north and thirtieth south parallels contains half the world’s land area outside the polar regions and half its population. Yet its share of international commerce is only one sixth and it has just one seventh of the world’s railways. Temperate zones demand its food and manufactured goods.
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio claiming internal action through the blood to mucous surfaces. A $100 reward is offered for any uncured case and Druggists sell the remedy. the notice also lists sale of brass instruments from the Aid Society.
An editorial reflects on how a single misdeed can erase a lifetime of service. It cites Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold as examples, notes Peter’s redemption, and recalls Marechal Bazaine’s capitulation haunting a long career of service.
A coroner's inquest heard witnesses describe a fatal automobile accident with two injured passengers. A nearby farmer, Mr Swiggert, quipped that the driver died trying to get 60 miles from a ten mile road, framing the tragic event with dark humor.
In Farm and Fireside a writer notes a near fatal debt related act and urges on debt awareness. The piece reflects on debt as a progress tool yet stresses personal worry and health impacts for those in financial strain. It highlights how fear of debt or escape from it can haunt sensitive individuals.
The passage argues that measuring a salespersons success by individual sales volume misses core selling principles. It emphasizes that selling efficacy blends personal skill with impersonal factors in the overall selling process.
The tourniquet is a device to halt arterial bleeding. It includes a strap a pad and a mechanism to apply pressure around a limb. Common in first aid cabinets the US Army tourniquet tightens by threading the webbing through a buckle and securing the catch.
Reports detail a lime explosion injuring Mrs. Hartley’s daughters near Crisbney, with eye burns but hopeful prognosis. Jacob Kilian secretly wed Elsie Holcémén in Englewood Courthouse. A large patriotic flag raising at the Southern depot in Rockport is described with speeches. Various community notices include a birth in Jasper, wheat holdings in Petersburg, and Knights of Columbus events in nearby towns.
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