This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1913
Page
10
A horticulture expert urges thinning fruit to about half the crop, boosting energy for the remaining apples pears and peaches. Proper thinning improves color uniformity and growth, reduces disease and pest sites, and prevents limb breakage on young orchards, with pears needing less thinning and cherries often left unthinned.
Guidance for peach orchards covers pruning frozen young trees, protecting high ground plants with wind breaks, removing dead or weak branches, and avoiding sheep grazing. Cautions against using crude petroleum insecticide due to potential tree damage, advising fall or early spring application only and not in hot weather.
Asenath Woods describes her goose-raising method with minimal care and high output. She notes cross-setting, nest destruction to stop laying, seasonal picking of geese, and a feeding plan combining bread milk greens and cracked corn with ample water and skim milk to drink.
A sermon extols truth as the ultimate commodity that cannot be bought or sold. It warns against mercenary preachers who trade truth for popularity, urges education as a path to purchase truth, and cites biblical ejemplos like Eden and Judas to condemn selling truth. It concludes that truth is precious beyond wealth and must be bought with effort and kept intact.
A pamphlet claims women once childless now have healthy children after using Lynn Bingham’s Vegetable Compound. Read names and addresses, learn for yourself, and consider joining thousands who allegedly benefited.
A collage of letters praising a remedy called Compound from mothers across the United States. Testimonials claim strong health for both mothers and infants, highlighting baby girls and boys described as healthy and content. Local towns include Kent Oregon Troy Alabama Wilmington Vermont Carle stadt New Jersey Montegu Louisiana Wilmington Massachusetts Worcester Buffalo Dewittville Baltimore Ohio.
Constantinople launches an Ottoman Metropolitan Company with 5 million dollars in capital to build and operate a metropolitan electric line. The contract targets completion to Pancaldi in four and a half years from October 1, 1912, with remaining sections within ten years. A new bridge over the Golden Horn is included.
A dinner minister's arrival triggers a hostess to kill a rooster in his honor, upsetting her boy who sees cruelty. He then hides hens in the roost to scare the guest, shouting that the man who ate his father is coming. The page features ads for Mentholated Cough Drops and household tips.
A short exhortation on full effort in duty. It urges using head heart and hand to avoid wasted energy and warns that halfhearted attempts lead to failure. Emphasizes disciplined, complete endeavor as path to achievement.
Captain A Sunderberg of the steam schooner Wasp reports an August 7 encounter with a dense fog bank near Point Conception that did not rise, while atmospheric electricity sparked inside the fog for 1 hour 14 minutes. Lightning blew along the main mast as crew avoided decks, with unusual thunderous reports like a wireless apparatus.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.