Gossip Notes From Local Residents Across Ferdinand Area
Local column records visiting calls and outings by Edward Boegiin Rudolph Temple Robert Elmer John Merkle and others. Farm activity and harvest prospects noted with sketches of health illness and family visits. The Salt River Packet arrival hints at future cargo and a 800d landing next fall.
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Edward Boegiin
Rudolph Temple
Ferdinand
Robert Elmer
John Merkle
Theodore Ernst
John Arehart
Cannelton
Local Visitors and Hallmark Home News
Adgeville Elva and Addison Wheeler played ball at Siberia Sunday. Joseph Schaefer and wife visited relatives in Dale Sunday. Herbert Sommer is visiting his sister in Evansville this week. Mildred Schnellenberger, who has been very sick, is much improved Hilbert Ayler is making his happy ees.
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Elva
Addison Wheeler
Siberia
Joseph Schaefer
Dale
Herbert Sommer
Evansville
Mildred Schnellenberger
Hilbert Ayler
Fulda Community Roundup and Visitors
Fulda reports visitors from Perry county and Rockport including John Berger and family, Mrs Joe Holtzmann and son Richard in Tell City, Miss Martina Weaver from Evansville, and Miss Katie Schulte from Rockport staying with Paul Schaffer. Communion Sunday is set for June 4 with communicants to be published later. A rain shower blessed crops, aiding tobacco setting. Several families spent Sunday at Ollie Niehaus’s in Ferdinand, while others traveled to Louisville, Cincinnati, or Indianapolis for visits and business.
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John Berger
Perry County
Joe Zoglmann
Joe Holtzmann
Richard
Tell City
Martina Weaver
Evansville
visit by Cyril Bohnert and Emma Seufert to Evanaville
Cyril Bohnert and Miss Emma Seufert traveled to Evanaville on Sunday to visit her sister Mrs. Arthur Beckmann.
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Cyril Bohnert
Emma Seufert
Evanaville
Arthur Beckmann
Postal Improvement Week Observed
The article promotes Postal Improvement Week set for May 1 by the Postmaster General. It urges business users and the 826,000 postal workers to engage, stresses careful addressing, and directs complaints to the postmaster for investigation to speed delivery.
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Postal Service
Postal Improvement Week Opens May 16 1922
The Post Office Department urges postmasters and staff to use courtesy in public dealings. The campaign begins during Postal Improvement Week starting May 16 1922 to improve service and relations with customers.
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Post Office Department
Address clarity through the ages in postal history
The piece notes how early mail relied on vague addresses like Atlantic Coast or garret chests and contrasts with modern practice. It explains the Post Office Department’s request to include street numbers and a street name to ensure proper delivery. It emphasizes the benefit of precise addressing for locating addressees.
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Ben Franklin
Esekiel Smiters
Atlantic Coast
Ben
Zeke
Garret
John Smith
New York
N. Y
Chicago
Uncle Sam
Postoffice Department
Postal Clerk Addressing Confusion Between Trinidad Places
A reader asks how clerks distinguish Trinidad California from Trinidad Colorado and insists that state names be written in full in addresses to avoid misrouting. The guidance stresses clear, fully spelled state names in all correspondence.
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Trinidad
California
Colorado
Business in government echoed in postal leadership
President Harding’s first message to Congress urges more businesslike operation of government and highlights postmasters as managers of local branches of the world’s largest business.
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Harding
Congress
Postal Improvement Week Declared May 14
Community efforts urge tidy up of rural mail facilities to attract visitors and potential benefits. Postmaster, farmers, and rural carriers urged to start improvements now to create a favorable first impression for any Mr Stranger who may notice.
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Farmer
Stranger
Humanizing the Postal Service Motto from Postmaster General Mubert Peesee
A historical statement emphasizes every postal worker as a vital unit and calls for mutual cooperation. The message frames postal duties as neighborly accommodations rather than hired tasks, urging a people-centered view of service.
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Mubert ' Peesee
Ferdinand Indiana trustee to handle township business at home
The undersigned trustee of Ferdinand township in Dubois County will attend to township business at his office each day of the week at his home. Persons with township business are asked to present it at his home. Nick Senninger, Trustee, Ferdinand, Indiana.
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Ferdinand Township
Dubois County
Nick Senninger
Ferdinand, Ind
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KNUST@ WERNE
John Temple
Philip Temple
Frank Roxer
Edwin Denning
Bernard Elmer
Gilbert Arehart
John Render
Joseph Heeke
Frank Heeke
Hubert Boeglin
Hubert Ernst
Louie Gehlhausen
Theodore Buechler
St Meinrad
Felix Linnelt
Birdseye
Nick Bender
Ben Winners
Albert Schnellenberger
Celestine
Mildred
Lawrence Hobbs
Uniontown
Adam Taylor
Charles Reasor
Lynnville, Ind
James van Winkle
George A. Kunkler
George
Alex Lanman
Jacob Hoffmann
Mra
August Jacob
Jas. O. Sanders
L. M. Lanman
Mr. Sanders
Siberia No. 22
Adgeville
Fulda
Katie Schulte
Rockport
Paul Schaffer
St. Meinrad
George Denning
Theodore, Ardela
Joseph Berger
Ella
Marie Ruxer
Ollie Niehaus
Mike Trotter
John Russ
Joe Hollander
Huntingburg
Joe Griesinger
Dora Dotterweich
Louisville
Julius Widmer
Hubert Ruxer
Leo Greulich
Stephen Remke and Son
Cincinnati
Josephine Mueller
Robert Widmer
Edna Ringemann
St. Joseph Society
Richmond
Robert Becher
Indianapolis
Iuinstah
United States
U. S. Royal Tubes
Remke Bros. Garage
Freinacker Company
Ferdinand, Indiana
Office
House
G. G. Metzger
Johnsburg, Ind
A. Jochom
A. F. Gugsell
Fransville, Ind
Timothy
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