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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
2
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Mrs F W Wagner and Mr Will Arnold visit friends in Huntingburg while Mr Arnold heads to Louisville. Katie Pfau returns to Jasper and Frank Hartz with wife from Tell City visit relatives. Mary Horlander comes home from Louisville for recreation. Jacob Mittelbuehler of Evansville renews old ties. Celia and Katie Seufert enjoy vacation with home folks. Adam Grundhofer and Andy Gogel conduct business at the county capital. Andy Jochim of Ferdinand visits home. Fred Nord recovering from typhoid fever. Leo Peters of Princeton visits grandparents. Simon Basler and Oscar Basler of Columbus, Ohio visit relatives. Gosser and Gogel homes nearing completion. Minnie Wirtzhberger celebrated nineteenth birthday with a surprise party. Mitchell Hanna of North Vernon visits town. W L Heidelbech of Evansville vacationing with relatives and friends.
Miss Eva Schlachter plans to depart for Louisville this week as guests and residents gathered Sunday evening in Hurricane Valley. A large group of friends and relatives shared refreshments at 10 o clock and lingered late, with several trips planned to St Meinrad and Louisville. A newborn girl arrived to Mr and Mrs Herman Ebenkamp, while visits continued among the Schlachter, Huelsmann, Drach, and Thacker families.
An observed surge of American women publishing views in books and magazines on marriage divorce family size social ills and gender relations signals a shift. The public and press respond with flippant prurient attitudes as women enter a bold new arena, hinting at emancipation.
A metropolitan correspondent asks if socialism would force uniform clothing and fashions. The piece mocks the idea, arguing tyranny of fashion under communism could be less than current control by fashion elites in London, Paris, and New York.
The New York Tribune notes that chains on automobile tires harm carriage roads in parks and Riverside Drive. It argues that chains enable unsafe high speed turns and speed mania, causing costly road damage while rubber tires can handle curves safely with slower speeds.
The Altoona city lock-up uses a seven by two by one foot sweat-box to pressure prisoners and unwilling witnesses. The piece compares it to a brig on warships, arguing such physical coercion violates standards and erodes moral authority.
The piece notes doctors raising fees due to higher living costs and acknowledges critics who say this does not help the living, yet agrees it makes dying more expensive.
An old saying claims good Americans go to Paris after death. The note adds that several millionaires buying homes there casts doubt on their stated virtue and posthumous plans.
The piece argues that business success resembles checkers where the proper move is advertising. An experiment notes 1000 tons of soot settle yearly on 110 square miles of London. Gezer in ancient Palestine is dated about 6000 years old. Nails driven but half way. half measures fail.
Opinion urges action to reduce railroad collisions derailments and deaths in 1906 with statistics from Van Norden Magazine. Advocates block signals better rolling stock and improved roadbeds to lower wrecks and wipe out waste of life and wages.
A Denver Post column urges nonviolent protest against judicial decisions. It cites past threats and a Chicago near miss where a judge was winged, while a St. Louis woman fired at another judge but caused no injury. The piece mocks lethal measures and calls for a sign reminding courts that judges strive the best.
Br Wylie critiques salicylic acid as a routine diet item and meat seasoning, saying it undermines general health. The Pittsburg Dispatch notes the public already rejects the doctrine of salicylic intake, urging informed choice and transparent dosing to avoid consumer deception.
A humorous Victorian style riff questions if humans are like soap. cites Prof J G Adams claiming myelins are soaplike globules in the body detectable under a polarizing microscope. It remarks on their movement, solubility, and crystalline properties, and playfully denies self made manhood.
The piece compares remarriage rights to title examination for a house, arguing that a divorced person must have their right to remarry reviewed by a lawyer before entering a new marriage, just as a purchaser checks a title.
A fragment quotes Sir Oliver Lodge suggesting humanity remains in infancy and contrasts this with political and sociological observations. The text also mentions New York City's water stream and a brief, incomplete note about Rome and a district.
Peter Egloff of Jasper visited his parents Sunday. Adolph Egloff returns to Rush Creek Mo with Jacob Bettag and family to run a boarding house. John Miller Jr joined A Egloff Co. Henry Denning Jr and wife and others prospected in Missouri. John George of Ohio visited St Meinrad Abbey on Tuesday. Wn Trotter moved back to St Meinrad and works at Valentin Fleig bank. Rheinhold Sturm returned from Indianapolis. Benedictine sisters return and school starts Monday. Boniface Jacobs passed through to Adgeville to invoice Mr Moeller stock and buy 40 cerca of Anderson Bottom. Jacobs to aid Creamery and merchandising. John Smith of Louisville visited the Trosachs. Lena Troesch went to Louisville. Andy Tretter, wallpapering expert, recalled to work in St Louis. Edward Baxter returns from a year away. will go back Monday. Conrad Lambert near St Meinrad ill with fevers. his wife and two children.
Property for sale in Wagner's addition with inquiries directed to J. H. Beckmann or Christ Mehling.
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COUNTRY PRODUCE Eggs 15¢ Butter 124¢ per pound Potatoes 60c per bu MEATS Bacon Sides 10c lb Shoulders 85c lb Hams 14 to 14¢ lb Lard 10c lb Hogs 8c lb Cocks 3c lb WOOL Grease Wool 28c lb Wash Wool 40c lb Beef Hide 8c lb Calf Hide per lb MILL STUFF Flour 2.20 per hundred lb Shorts 1.00 per hundred lb Bran 5c per lb Corn Meal 70c per bu
Subscription options include New York World thrice weekly at .85 a year old and new subscribers eligible. Louisville Courier Journal weekly service cited as premier choice. Cincinnati Enquirer weekly listed at .55. McCall's Magazine monthly praised for up-to-date fashion content and value.
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