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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1922
Page
7
William Allen White muses on marvels from radios to serums and air filled with unheard sounds. The essay ponders science opening senses and questions spirits and space joining the modern age. He jokes about calling Ben Franklin on the phone to tease him for lighting lightning with a kite.
New census bureau life tables indicate rural residents live longer and face lower death rates than city dwellers. Across classes and both sexes, life expectancy rises since 1900, with women outliving men and white female babies outperforming male infants in survival. Bottle feeding may contribute to higher city infant death rates despite advances in medicine.
A Mohawk like sedate Indian deposits twelve hundred dollars at a Kansas City bank savings wicket before nine. After lunch he returns to withdraw, insisting the money be returned the same day. The clerk points to policy and the man again demands cash, prompting a reluctant refund.
The piece celebrates the anticipation of trout fishing, noting the fisher by the grate compiling flies for the next campaign. It emphasizes that the true pleasure comes from preparation, not the actual weather or streams, with the fisher content in crafting lures and dreaming of speckled beauties.
The piece cites Pelham Wodehouse as a master of slang noting humor underpins slang. It claims American and English speech show wit in their colloquialisms and cites a Pittsburgh Dispatch quote on humor guiding slang. It ends with a gag exchange about a bill collector and a young lawyer urging frequent calls.
The Academy of the Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand Indiana is a boarding and day school for girls run by the Sisters of Saint Benedict. It is commissioned to confer rights of a flight school and offers music and art studies with emphasis on physics health moral and religious training. For details contact Sister Superior.
In 1027 the Fisheries Service notes a plan to boost the Aleutian fox stock by shipping eight blue foxes from the Pribilof Islands to several buyers including St. George and Unalaska. Foxes arrived in good order. skins sold for about 1000 dollars with natives paid per fox while proceeds went to the U S treasury.
An elderly artist muses on reviving historical fashions for women and men, joking about silken knee breeches and rich coats to resolve skirt debates. The Detroit assistant director then analyzes December 1921 petroleum statistics, noting excess domestic production and imports over consumption by 1.087 billion barrels for the month.
A salt bed is pierced at 120 feet depth near Hear Whyeocomish in Victoria county. A thin upper vein of rock salt is exposed and several natural salt springs have been found. A Cape Breton company is incorporated to develop salt production in the district.
An advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm as a pure antiseptic remedy for catarrh and cold congestions. It claims the ointment penetrates nasal passages to clear the head, open nostrils, and ease breathing with instant relief.
An old remedy advises taking Hamburg Breast Tea with boiling water to break a cold. A tablespoonful in a cup of water is consumed any time or before bed. It claims to open skin pores, relieve congestion, loosen bowels, and drive a cold from the system. The remedy is described as inexpensive, vegetable, safe, and harmless.
An advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil as a quick cure for backache lumbago rheumatism and sciatica. It claims a 35 cent bottle applied to the skin relieves soreness within fifty counts and that the product is harmless and non burning.
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