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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
3
The New York World outlines improved services for 1907 including broader coverage of world events, impartial political news, and enhanced reporting. It promotes a cheaper thrice weekly edition with 156 papers per year and stronger features like cartoons and fiction.
Advertises a one year subscription to The Ferdinand News for a total of $1.65. Limited to new subscribers and includes renewal terms.
The Rev R Hicks announces the 1988 Almanac ready for delivery with a colorful cover and fine engravings. It includes yearly weather forecasts illustrated and is priced 35 cents by mail and 80 cents at news stands. Subscription includes a monthly Weather forecast magazine Word and Works at 1 dollar per year with one almanac per subscription. Agents are sought at 2201 Locust Street St Louis Missouri.
San Francisco reports show Japanese market participation across many trades, with 85 hotels 60 restaurants 16 intelligence offices 9 shooting galleries 11 billiard rooms and 75 housecleaning firms licensed in the city. Many unlicensed workers also operate in cobbling butchery janitorial and domestic service roles.
A recent display in Letchworth showcased affordable cottages costing under 750 dollars including builders’ profits. The aim was practical, comfortable homes for workers and families not ornate shelters, a point stressed by Duke of Devonshire.
A new explosive named vigorite is claimed to explode about ten times as powerfully as rival compounds. Prof. Schultz and Mr. Gehre are cited as creators using a nitrous compound. Combined with saltpeter it reportedly behaves unusually, resisting friction damp frost and igniting to burn slowly in oven air. Factory works are planned at Tohr-on-the-Main.
The Malay Peninsula uses a waterlike resin coin valued at about one ten thousandth of a penny. The smallest metal coin today is the Portuguese three veil piece worth twelve one hundredths of a penny. The official smallest coin in the British Empire is Gibraltar’s five millesima, about half a farthing.
A French writer describes ocean depths from 28 001 feet to near zero temperature and perpetual darkness where light fails and plants cannot live. The piece notes atrophied eyes in sightless zones, yet reports a German ship finding a fish with enormous eyes at 6 400 feet.
The Shah rescues a charming kitten and instructs the grand vizier to care for it. The kitten’s owner, a gardener’s wife, protests but is silenced when the vizier throws her gold and leaves with the kitten.
India maintains mounted army nurses with 20 rupees monthly for horse upkeep and free transport for the horses. The corps consists of women of good social position who complete three years of general hospital training before qualifying.
The Pope commands a Florence firm to craft a crown with imitation stones for the Virgin’s image in St. Peter’s Basilica replacing a gem valued at 7,500,000 dollars to be placed in the Vatican vaults. Hindu children show notable precocity with tal ents in crafts and arts at a young age. Fortunate is the man honored as a hero to his wife.
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