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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1919
Page
11
Advertises a mail order offer for a free 25e tube of Vader Balm for colds and flu prevention. Claims external use and limited-time availability from E. W. Vacher, Inc. New Orleans. Mentions Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills and a vague jab at telephone companies.
A Philadelphia Ledger item notes a spinster fearing influenza transmission by kissing, the doctor downplays risk as two months past. Separate tidbits state Korean widows may not remarry after very short marriages and British scientists report light traces found over 590 feet beneath the sea.
An elderly patient at an eye hospital cannot read a wall placard, explaining he never learned to read. The doctor advances the distance, but the man still cannot read, highlighting illiteracy as the barrier. The column then offers clipped quips on marriage and education.
An excerpt from the U S Department of Agriculture outlines authenticated incidents from the Better Lives Better Stock campaign. It highlights a New Jersey boy buying a high grade cow for 155 dollars whose milk output increased, Oklahoma bull breeding profits, rising purebred stock sales in North Carolina, and Southern poultry improvements raising average market weights by about a quarter.
An old Kansas Agricultural College entomology professor shares a homemade fly repellent formula for cattle. The mixture uses pulverized resin, soap shavings, water, kerosene, tar oil, and fish oil boiled together, applied daily for 2–3 days then every 3–5 days.
The article explains skimming rich 85 percent cream yields extra skim milk for feed, noting no cream screw change is needed. It argues higher skim milk on farms boosts calf and meat production and that milk producers are paid for butterfat in cream, not water.
The Boston statehouse built in 1713 served as Merchants Exchange and governors meeting place. Washington reviewed a procession here in 1789 and William Lloyd Garrison sheltered here in 1835 during anti slavery unrest. Now a museum under Bostonian Society housing relics and paintings. The text ends with an unrelated Vermifuge ad.
A neighborly dispute unfolds as a woman asks for a page from a newspaper while sprinkling a lawn. The man, slow to understand, agrees to give the whole paper, misinterpreting the request amid a tense moment.
A vintage advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as the best and harmless laxative for children. It urges mothers to look for the California name on the package and promises simple dosing and a tasty fruit flavor.
A painter working on a water tank at Buhl Mina watched a cow begin to scratch its back on the ladder. The frightened animal ran, horns tearing into the ladder rungs as it charged away with the painter and ladder attached. The painter jumped free unhurt while the cow dragged the ladder about a quarter mile.
Lightning is the flash of an electric explosion. The discharge heats air and vapor causing a violent expansion along the flash, creating a deep compression wave or noise.
A vintage advertisement claims catarrh is set by constitutional conditions and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a internal remedy. It offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and lists price and testimonial details from J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio.
A Birmingham Age Herald passage mocks wealth through a big home and a Great Dane on the veranda. The dialogue questions whether housing features or the dog indicate affluence, noting only the dog signals prosperity.
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