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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1917
Page
6
An accidental phone call to an employment agency reveals a misdialed greeting. The caller asks for the Gre department while the manager corrects the mistake and clarifies the call concerns the hire department.
An anecdote recalls Whistler leaving his long time dwelling to build a new “What House” in Tite Street. He clashed with architect E W Godwin, leading to a quarrel over decoration. A commemorative stone once bore a biblical inscription, later disappeared after Godwin’s death in 1886.
Maud reports many kittens in their cat's basket and questions the wisdom of a mother’s cat having a large family at once. The exchange closes with a proverb about timing: while the fool waits for a chance, the wise man makes one.
A humorous Edinburgh exchange unfolds over a lost hat on Letterday. Bystanders claim a cable car driver stopped to chase the hat, while others doubt the tale and defend the city’s credit in a playful chatty vignette.
Mr Bruce Barton describes a friend's fear before his first public speech. The audience feels like a test from a wife who, after a banquet, sat facing him with a cold stare to gauge his nerves. The inebriated speaker hiccups a joke about a woman in the other chair looking like his wife.
A fragment notes a man who spoils his family and treats money as mere tokens. The passage contrasts a few men who spend freely with the wives who receive five-dollar bills that seem small. It emphasizes excess and social perception of wealth.
They pull a starving stowaway from wreckage aboard the Nancy Bell. Ben Ruggles, amid storms and savages, uses trickery and a hidden prosthetic set to win over the crew, then meets a king and is hailed as a medicine man after a daring escape.
The potato played a key role in early New England history. Capt John Henry Smith brought it to the American table from Spaniards via his Virginian colony. Colonists, wary at first, grew to accept the tuber after Smith’s favorable experience and enthusiasm.
The fragment recalls Roselle and her mother visiting a minister's wife famed for her housekeeping. The child interjects with a puzzled question about God making the files while the hostess replies kindly. The scene conveys small town social notes and Sunday school dialogue.
An old advertisement touts Boschee’s German Syrup as a preventive for colds and related lung troubles. It claims a fifty year history of success, ease of sleep and morning ex pectoration, and notes availability from druggists worldwide with 26 and 30 day bottle sizes.
An article urges daily care of the body as a machine and promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets a laxative made from May-apple and aloes. It claims weekly cleansing prevents ills and improves complexion headache and liver health, selling for 25 cents with the Dr. Pierce stamp as proof of 50 years of use.
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