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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1910
Page
2
William F Oldham, bishop of Singa, warns against colonizing rhetoric and notes some tribes are so degraded that aid may be the only possible improvement. He uses a parable of a beauty-seeking woman and a surgeon to illustrate limits of guaranteed perfection.
A fashionable guest at a West Virginia summer resort dons fishing attire and asks a local if the nearby mountain stream yields good fishing. The native responds with a dry joke about valuing time, implying the fishing is not worthwhile for him.
Free circulars announce Deafness Cannot Be Cured and promote Hall's Family Pills by F. Cheney & Co. Tole, O. Sold by Druggists with circulars available.
A description explains how lightning splits trees by vaporizing trapped moisture. The bolt travels through damp trunk hollows turning moisture to steam, causing an explosion that rips the tree apart. Scientists now accept this explanatory theory after centuries of puzzlement.
A reader notes a white waist stained by rosin from common yellow soap and urges washing with Easy Task soap which contains no rosin. The ad claims Easy Task restores fabrics and praises its effect on working women and overall clothing care.
Mrs Cons Barclay of Graniteville Vermont reports recovery from life life changes and nervousness after using E pinkham s remedy. She credits improved health and strength to the tonic and urges others with female complaints to try it, noting its long standing reputation and broad endorsements.
The article urges simple, healthful picnic and porch gatherings with light gear. It recommends wooden or paper disposables, easily digested foods for children, and a simple menu including chipped beef creamed dishes, sandwiches, salads, fruit, coffee, and lemonade. Water is preferred. tomatoes refresh sandwiches and lettuce adds flair. Garden or porch events need practical planning with trays, tables, and reheating hot dishes.
A column offers Waldorf Salad with celery, apples, and nuts served on lettuce with mayonnaise. It then describes apple pie without sugar in the filling, a method to re add sugar after crust removal, fried apples with light fat, and a dessert apple dumpling with biscuit dough baked and served with sugar and cream.
The clipped text outlines a frozen pudding recipe starting with scalded milk and sugar, cornstarch, egg yolk, vanilla, and nuts then folded with cream and frozen. It also notes beach parties and basket picnics will be the main attraction for the next two months with several helpful suggestions.
Evansville victims Mrs. Mable Williams and Mrs. Lillian Dabier, both living in the same house, died and neared death after a rumored suicide pact tied to deserted husbands and alleged infidelity. Williams died after drinking carbolic acid. Dabier reportedly consumed creosote. Williams’s husband is John Williams, a printer.
Business sessions of the National Kappa Kappa Gamma convention focus on committee work and routine matters. Delegates review several coat of arms designs displayed in the convention hall as a possible new insignia.
The Bureau of Municipal Research plans a September meeting to examine the milk situation in Richmond after a price rise by dominant companies, aiming to render public service. In Indiana district towns, Urbana station crew will present mine rescue demonstrations and lectures on government rescue stations in September.
The Eleventh district Democratic caucus gathered in Peru with Ed Cox of Hartford City as presiding committee man. Delegates from across the district attended as Steven Jack the state chairman and Lew Ellingham, secretary of state hopeful, were present along with deputy supreme candidates J. Fred Paanee and others.
A narrator muses on blindness and fairness, citing Oscar Wilde and Reading Gaol. He argues morality spans all, calls for physicians for the blind, and imagines a world where a redeemer reveals light to those in darkness.
The column lists fluctuating prices for dairy goods like Butter-Extraz 32% lb and eggs firsts, assorted fruits such as Apples Maiden Blush and Peaches, vegetables including Tomatoes and Sugar Corn, plus Cincinnati live stock quotes for cattle bulls calves hogs sheep lambs and hogs, with grain prices for Wheat Corn Oats Hay Barley Rye Malt and more. It provides bid ranges and typical lot descriptions across multiple farm items and commodity groups.
Dan's Review notes improving crop prospects and rising current demand as harvests near. Yet renewed political activity slows enterprise with contraction in futures and steadier falls in footwear and steel markets. Bank clearings total 2.204 billion dollars, down from last year and 1906, though outside New York shows mixed results.
New York and Canada show 235 US business failures for the week ending August 25 with prior weeks at 222 and 201 in 1909. Wheat and flour exports for the United States and Canada total 1 293 914 bushels for the week, with eight week totals at 10 843 365 bushels. Corn exports rise to 138 169 bushels for the week, eight week totals reach 9 096 002 bushels.
An 80 year old Kansas man with diabetes reported milky kidney secretions and back pain. After trying other remedies he used Doan's Kidney Pills and was cured. Foster Milburn Co. advertises them at 60 cents a box.
A playful exchange centers on pets and meals with Harker noting no four legged friends. Barker jests the only pet is the dining table while musing about selling an old stuffer to Stuffer.
A Cleveland Leader quips on fools and money as a spinster defends her dating stance. The dialogue contrasts self-made men with those shaped by marriage and suggests bold independence as a path to attention.
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