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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1906
Page
2
Rates for subscriptions and advertising are listed with monthly billing. The piece urges local stores to supply news items to the paper, promoting the trade center role, regular space use, and reporter interaction to boost home trade and city prosperity. It emphasizes publishing news to enhance a store’s reputation and public presence.
Marshal Saner and Joe Dilger of Ferdinand visited Sunday. Weddings include Miss Mary Hollander and John Seger announced at church and Miss Rosie Thoma wed Frank Arnold with attendants Mayme Arnold Barbara Fendel John Bott and Louis Arnold. Typhoid death of Paul Wirtzberger at 20. Funeral held Saturday. Y M V meeting well attended.
Large turnout marked the forty hour devotion at St Meinrad with bright weather and a Sunday closing at 3 P M. Seminarians led a litany and procession with the Blessed Sacrament from the church to St Meinrad's Abbey and back. People from Fulda and Ferdinand joined the event.
William Sturm returns from Rockport to visit his parents and siblings and mentions plans to travel to Washington Territory soon. Fred Wagner and John M. Schnell, former teachers, visited friends last Sunday. Ferdinand Lindauer and wife visited their uncle Bernard Lindauer, meeting other friends. Saturday, the little College team and local boys played a game of ball.
A Prairie Farmer writer explains a sliding barn gate to restrain cattle during milking and feeding. The pine gate measures five inches wide and slides on a two inch gas pipe track with iron straps as hangers. The author notes eight gates in their barn and credit them with preventing stock escapes and saving lives when cattle roam into feed rooms.
Large scale road tarring in France for Grand Prix prep uses Laussatly system with heated tar applied by two gangs and eight men. Work began May 25 and finished within ten days covering 500000 square yards, with four sweeper wagons to clear excess tar. regarded as economical by Scientific American as upkeep costs rise less than initial outlay.
Farm notes claim farmers can shape conditions for better yields. An old mower section riveted to wood proves effective for cutting bands during threshing, aiding corn selection and preservation to lay a foundation for a good crop.
An advertisement notes Dr B A Mosby a dentist will be at Senninger's Hotel in Huntingburg Indiana on the first Monday and Tuesday of an upcoming month. The rest of the text discusses harvest prospects and farming tips emphasizing care with potatoes and general agricultural guidance.
A ten cent chocolate or broken candy portion serves as an egg carrier when lined with corrugated brown paper board. Circles cut from the same material form layers with increasing circle sizes toward the top. Eggs can be gathered from nests and carried to market with few breakages, at low cost, notes Orange Judd Farmer.
The article discusses how rough handling harms hens, noting hens bought in Chicago often fail to lay or lose vitality. It explains the delicate nervous system and effects of market shaking on future laying. A humorous exchange from a cartoon strip follows about a high altitude kiss after fainting.
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