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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
6
The clipping lists advertising rates and billing terms: one column for one year, smaller columns for fractions, price per line for business locals at five cents, and monthly billing for advertising and job printing with specific amounts such as 76.00 and 50.00. It shows payable dates and small line items like 12.50.
Market list corrected weekly with prices furnished by Rechelhoff Muller Peter Muller Bons Beckmann Ferdinand Stock Yards and associates. Butter 20¢ per lb eggs 21c per dozen hens 10c per lb cocks 5c per lb springers 10c per lb potatoes 35¢ per bu onions 60¢ per bu bacon 12c per lb shoulders 11c per lb ham 1c per lb beef hides 10c per lb calf's hide 1c per lb tallow 4c per lb turkey hen over 8 lbs 12c per lb tom 12c geese 6c ducks 8c feathers 50c per lb wheat 1.20 per bu corn old 64 70c new per bu flour 3.70 per cwt shorts 1.10 per cwt bran 1.00 per cwt corn meal bolted 1.00 per bu unbolted price range for Clover Seed 4.00 to 6.50 per bu fresh or was 20 to 35 Bulls 1900 lbs 3c per lb bulls 390 lbs 23c per lb steers 1200 lbs 42c per lb sheep 2 to 3c per lb lambs 3 to 4c per lb hogs 6 ¾ to 7 3/4c per lb
Notice to Ferdinand voters of Indiana that a corporate election will be held on November 2, 1909. One trustee per three wards, one town clerk, one treasurer, and one marshal to be elected. Polls open at both precincts as fixed for general elections. conduct per state election laws. John B. Schmitt, Town Clerk.
Mrs. Mary Senninger offers sale or rent of hotel premises with garden and dancing hat assets in good order. Terms stated as reasonable and negotiable.
The essay argues laughter reveals intellect and temper, citing Goethe Emerson Lavater and Plutarch. It notes leaders and scholars such as Caesar Horace Walpole Lincoln Pope Pope and Falstaff exemplify laughter’s moral signficance. Laughter moderates gloom and aids stamina for statesmen and thinkers.
Fort Reno hosts the U S Army remount depot where Capt. L Hardeman oversees gentle training of horses from Montana, Kentucky, Missouri, Colorado, Texas and Oklahoma. Civilians guide horses under Pasteur methods with 20 dollar monthly wages and board.
Secretary Straus of the Commerce and Labor Department joined the Lighthouse Board on a coast tour. At one station the keeper, a veteran seaman, impressed by his sprightliness, joked about his age and proudly replied I am eighty four in June.
New York Sun reports a cooperative plan where 3000 Angora goats on Lassen National Forest will graze to construct fire lines and trails. The project aims to clear brush along contour trails about 80 rods apart, creating 300 yard wide clearances to protect timber and enable forestation.
The article notes early fears that coal consumption would outpace production but credits coal mining machinery with dramatically increasing output. It describes automated digging, ore cars, elevators, chutes, washery processes, and even home delivery, yet laments coal remains unpopular and calls for newer methods of heat and power.
An old piece observes longing for spring in winter and summer in spring. It notes a woman resenting waking to help her husband but not minding letting the cat out. The author remarks on a traveling man dining with a customer and the waiter overindulging.
A mother uses a bright red apple to teach her son Johnnie about generosity. He initially resists the notion, then partially agrees and passes the apple to his sister while asking her to be generous.
A worried wife seeks help for her husband John who is unusually nervous and cannot settle to anything. The doctor considers his condition dire and suggests travel as a remedy, advising a long journey when scrutiny is absent to avoid tipping off others.
A forlorn man visits a chemist asking for indigestion relief. The chemist questions his eating habits, and the man recounts a grim, bizarre domestic mishap involving a pudding swelling in a kettle and a pancake that sipped through a gridiron to extinguish a stove, seeking help.
A passerby asks a man on the road about sales. The seller admits a two year pace, replying with a dry joke that his line is lighthouses, provoking incredulous humor about sales success.
A humorous exchange reveals Mrs Simpkins mistaking a scarecrow for her husband in the onion bed. The neighbor Mrs De Troop comments on the supposed gardening at dawn, then Mrs Simpkins slams the door in disbelief.
Mrs. Giles and a scientist discuss a new theory that Jonah was swallowed by an earthquake fissure rather than a whale. The exchange presents a plausible but unproven idea in a light, speculative tone.
In a travel anecdote, Trotter recalls being captured by bandits in Italy and bound with new gags. Homer quips about opera bandits, prompting Trotter to note the gags were unfamiliar to him.
A spinster asks if the husband is good. the reply notes he just supplied the material. The woman claims she did the making of a good husband herself.
A brief humor line shows Little Willie asking about a technicality while his father defines it as what lawyers quarrel over when the evidence isn’t satisfactory. This light exchange captures a courtroom or legal joke tone.
A lighthearted vignette features Mrs Meeker describing her husband wandering in his mind. The doctor reassures her not to worry, noting he cannot go far. The humorous exchange captures a gentle, familiar town atmosphere.
A fragmentary OCR item offers little coherent detail. It mentions numbers and terms but lacks identifiable people or events to summarize with confidence.
A downtown boy explains to a policeman that he works a dollar a week sweeping a crossing but admits he hires another child to do the actual labor. He collects the pay and passes half to the helper, claiming he avoids headwork by outsourcing. The tale appears in Youth's Companion.
Walter Hoff Seely recalls a Penn Station Jersey City lunch where Secretary Hay sat beside him and a plain American spoke to him as if unaware of the premier. Hay’s amused expression followed a jabbed elbow and a request for the confectionery while Hay passed the sugar.
The piece recounts Professor Haughton of Trinity College Dublin joking about sermons. He comparing Bishop of Meath Dr Reichel’s 40 minute talk unfavorably with Dr Stubbs sermon, claiming Stubbs’ sermon slept him in ten minutes.
A humorous note from The Bystander recounts Mrs. Wilson after an auction buying a vase to hold her husband’s cremated remains. She urges him to join the Cremation Society, joking that the mantelpiece will be set off by the urn holder.
A clergyman encounters boys playing baseball in a vacant lot on a Sunday and scolds them for the sin. One boy retorts that the father is the shortstop, implying the father is the culprit rather than the boy. The scene mirrors a humorous Harper’s Weekly caption.
The Yonkers Statesman quotes a local grocer using an automobile for deliveries. A resident asks if he will go to their house today, but the grocer isn’t sure, having not tried to start the machine yet.
A Philadelphia Ledger quote contrasts the unemployed man with the sector worker, noting both blame luck and timing for missed opportunities. The piece satirizes self justifications about having a better last chance in the show.
A dialogue about an automobile nicknamed Nurse Girl prompts a remark on park police watching the vehicle. A neighboring baby is described as dirty and difficult to quiet, in a fragmentary humor piece.
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