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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1912
Page
8
An evocative panorama of Killarney describing its 3000 foot hills a mild climate and lakeside beauty. The piece tours Rosscastle Muckross Abbey and the Devil's Punch Bowl with legends from a veteran boatman and reflections on the town's health resort charm.
A fragmented account describes a figure named Ole Bostmen spinning tales about a lake voyage. It mentions belief in spectacles titled the Snal and a notion of entering an imagined realm called Karen guarded by a white horse that travels the lake with an alger.
Banbury residents lament the loss of the Globe room and old cross as a modern apirelike structure rises. In the Reindeer Inn a hidden double barreled pistol behind paneling near the fireplace bears an inscription to Dick Turpin from 1735, suggesting a claimed link to the famed highwayman though no local legend ties him to Banbury.
The Philadelphia zoological gardens run a rugged grooming operation led by Head Keeper Manley and Superintendent Carson. Manicurists use hammers chisels and saws with large files to trim nails and clip claws on predators and birds to prevent injury and relieve distress.
In Goldendale Washington a three-year-old daughter of W B Smith was bitten on the finger by a rattlesnake while reaching for a kitten in a garden a few feet from the house. She died three and a half hours after the accident despite immediate antiseptic treatment. The event mirrors a prior similar bite that killed Mrs R D Gray last year on the same finger of the same hand.
Weekly advertisement rule states no charge for items under this head No ad may exceed five lines and require the signature of the referrer Copy must reach the office before Wednesday each week
Listings include Q acres of Gale Parm with 30 acres timber balance in cultivation Joba Bombolanki. Rent offered on a brick and frame house. Also Fox Terrier pups and Rat Dogs for sale. Ferdinand Indiana notices for farming gear and a Delker buggy with harness offered at bargain prices.
The ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the sole positive cure for catarrh, urging internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces. It offers a $100 reward for any case not cured and directs readers to send testimonials to F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, Ohio, with sales through druggists and a note to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Effective Sunday May 26 1912 at 12 01 pm trains operate daily with connections at Huntingburg to Southern railway trains. Train details include arrival and departure times from Ferdinand and Huntingburg and linkages to Evansville Rockport Cannelton Louisville Princeton West Baden and other routes. Train masters J A Wood L B Jenkins and G P F P A sign off.
At a special meeting held October 16 1912 directors adopted a resolution notifying shareholders of the Ferdinand Railroad Company that an annual meeting will be held November 11 1918 at 1 30 PM at the office of J H Beckmann Ferdinand Indiana. The secretary is to send copies to every stockholder. Signed J H Beckmann Jos Gondeemann Peter Maller Math Olinger Jr Tooneal Mallee.
Constantinople sees the launch of a phonetic reading method for Mohammedan children. Editor Lehmai Bek Gas prinsky, leading Tartar reform, returns from Bombay with a system that replaces Arabic spelling with sound-based teaching. The method promises reading in 49 days versus six months, prompting pushback from the traditional scholars. The approach is spreading from the Constantinople Normal School for Teachers to other schools nationwide.
Captain de Fossa announces that the Chateau de Vincennes donjon, a 160 foot tall, 40 foot thick walled fortification with a 1237 step staircase, is open for visitors. The site houses 18th century military relics and historical data on its 700 year history, including former prisoners and royal use.
Notice to residents of Ferdinand Indiana that an individual over twenty one will apply to Wald County Board of Commissioners for leave to transfer a liquor license from a 1912 grant to a described room on the ground floor of a two story building at street corner Obie and Oak in Ferdinand township. Also a note of a birth at Mr and Mrs Jon Wilmers and a lost leather pocket book with eight to nine dollars in silver.
A wife helps her husband in a crisis, while an unnamed Vermont woman is praised for using Dr King’s New Discoveries. The testimonial claims a quick cure for coughs colds and lung troubles including grip bronchitis and croup. The ad offers Octa and $1.00 with guaranteed satisfaction by pharmacists.
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