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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1919
Page
14
Wool furs have become staple in suits and top coats with faked sealskin and muskrat pelts, offering practical service and handsome appearance. New duvetyn suit trims with furfelt resembling sealskin and basque ripples create a chic season style, while braid rows and a narrow belt with a beetle accent finish the look.
The article highlights girls and misses coats emphasizing soft fabrics like velour and duvetyn with new trims such as nutria fur bands. It notes sturdy tweeds and homespuns for school wear, and showcases a junior miss coat with velour and nutria trim, triangular insertions, belt, and a flapper style large sleeve duvety coat with restrained buttons.
Walt Ramsdell, a western Nebraska ranchman, answers a personal ad seeking a young eastern widow. He mails a telegram declaring intent while Cherry at the Omaha telegraph office quietly aids him, then helps select a honeymoon setup. A Meyer and Hobbs reply hints at a match via mail order.
The forest service notes rising interest in private and farm forestry promotes using woodhind or woods rather than woodlot. Woodlots imply small, regular, fenced tracts, but many woodland areas are large, irregular, and varied in terrain. The terms woodinunds and woods better fit broad tracts across the country.
Farmers use a simple method to improve plow cleaning by dragging the plow through sand or gravel at a nearby branch or creek. Repeated passes scour rust and hardened grease, with sand not sticking and gravel without large stones preventing movement.
A Philadelphia Ledger piece observes a twenty eight month old child’s interpretations of coins. The child calls pennies money for the organ nun and nickels “ble money” then identifies a dollar bill as “Mother's dolar” while naming Hessia the kitchen’s honoree.
A local youth enrolled in an auto mobile training school failed to place one part in a test. The supervisor challenged him to locate the missing piece. He removed it from the corps commander’s ear and became one of four from a class of 190 to pass the test.
A vintage note contrasts old and new metalworking methods. It describes how early mortars or strips were shaped by hand with blunt tools, while modern production uses steel strips, tighter construction, and automated shearing and feeding through multistep machines.
Cleaning brace or copper. For eleaing and pesning Orass ane copper, nothing is better than oil and rotten stone. Most of the gongol laden on the market are mete from those materials with alcohol atpen tae or sony.
The Agriculture Department urges careful market prep to boost hay revenue. Bulletin 1049 explains bale types from base to round presses, operating methods, and whether to own or hire a baling crew. It stresses uniform bales, proper storage, and weather considerations for value and efficiency.
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