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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1921
Page
6
The season favors dignified, long coats with Whittleneck skirts and varied trims. Coats show many collar and sleeve variations, while skirts stay slim with strategic waist and hem details. Fur cuffs and collars highlight a back ripple, embroidery finishes front, and overall length outpaces prior norms for a refined, extended look.
The article describes Halloween decorations using crepe and colored papers with witches, black cats, ghosts, and pumpkins. It outlines two light shade designs with orange cat faces and Jack o Lantern beards, plus a yellow windmill display, fences, and paper trees.
A continued column titled Kitchen Cabinet 7 presents several old fashioned recipes Cream of Celery Soup Cream of Pea Soup and Julienne Soup with instructions and quantities for each. Also includes Orange Ice Cream and a closing quatrain about pud n s.
A period cookbook snippet describes several easy dishes from curry eggs to a salmon mold and cucumber sauce. It lists ingredients like butter flour curry powder mustard cayenne cream and gelatin plus steps to cook and mold portions. Also included are a scalloped cabbage cheese sauce cocoa mix and hints on pumpkin seeds for frostings.
Three diggers Scheppers Kaltenbrun and Smith found a huge crystal in South Africa after sinking into hunger and illness. The stone, weighed and valued as a priceless gem, was bought by Allen Rossel and Crudgin. named the Arc, it joined world event gems.
In New York, Miss Mary Miller age twenty one faces a condition to marry to receive more of her late father Julius Miller's $420000 estate. Executors note she has drawn $35000 in three years and that an $8000 life policy proceeds were already paid. If she marries before twenty five she would get $7000 as a wedding gift. otherwise she waits for full share at twenty five. Estate valued at about $480254.
Sylvester Crockett, held on a five year sentence for attacking a man, doused his clothes with kerosene and set himself on fire in a jail cell. He burned severely and died before attendants could extinguish the blaze. Deputies found the cell still smoldering as guards removed him for fingerprinting and photographs.
Monticello New York. Barnum of Bridgeville near Monticello was attacked by a rattlesnake while walking to Denton Falls. The serpent lunged at him and punctured his shoe as he climbed a tree to escape. A bystander killed the reptile with a club after Barnum reached safety.
A pigeon described as a pirate steals a ring from Rebecca Bernstein in her Harken apartment. The bird grabbed the ring from a window sill, flown to a casement nest, and eluded capture before a patrolman recovered the jewelry and filed the report.
A warrant was issued for Alle Vance fourteen years old daughter of Charles Vance who was shot dead in his bed in Riardstown Kentucky. The girl and her mother testified that just before the death Vance chastised her for courting a young man.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to use California Fig Syrup to ease constipation and stomach issues in children. It claims a single dose can prevent illness tomorrow and highlights that only the genuine product, labeled California, should be used to avoid imitation.
A concise reflection quotes Terbert Spencer on the unity of morality and discipline. The line argues only one true form of right behavior exists, aligning conduct with universal standards rather than dual approaches.
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