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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1920
Page
2
The article recounts Perkins in New England marketing a magnetic tractor to draw illness from bodies. It notes how belief and curiosity fueled early electro-therapy, though scientists proved the device mere folly and explained the observed effects as imagined.
A letter dated April 22, 1527 from Martin Luther to Father Frederick Pistorius thanks the abbot for a watch gift and notes Luther’s desire to study mathematics to understand this timekeeper. The text suggests Luther had not seen such an object before and hints Heulein’s early watchmaking in Nuremberg despite his imprisonment for witchcraft.
An American inventor explains that bell tone comes from a worn clapper matching the bell. By casting bells so the clapper fits exactly, a mellow silver tone is produced instantly. The method is used in modern bell-making and sold abroad.
Orison Swett Marden counsels that worry stems from low self confidence and faith in God’s guiding power. He argues that trusting in divine provision and doing one's part negates fear of poverty, sickness, or failure, noting no moment is beyond divine safeguarding. Chicago News.
The piece describes the rolling calf foretelling death or misfortune among West Indian communities and a phantom shark near Nassau called the harbor master. It glows phosphorescently in daylight, resists capture, and vanishes at the last moment.
The tale tracks John Fillmore and Edward Cheesman among Atlantic pirates led by Phillips in the early 1700s. After a mutinous escape plan aboard the Dolphin of Cape Ann, three pirates die and two are hanged. Fillmore and Cheesman are acquitted in Boston on May 3, 1724.
A collector of animal incidents relates cases where dogs, horses, a bullfinch, and a horse show fear or avoidance of death or danger. One dog avoided a railway journey and was killed. a jumper horse refused a fence. a bullfinch screamed and died. a horse avoided a tree where a branch later fell. From the Continental London Mail edition.
A quote from Ortgon Swett Marden in Chicago News extols nature's beauty as hidden from the hurried. It urges readers to slow their pace and study, observe, and listen to nature to receive its secrets and splendor.
A Boy’s Life article explains tapa cloth from South Sea islands. It notes cloth is made from banana, breadfruit, or mulberry bark fibers beaten and fermented. The fabric bleaches to white in the sun and makes durable garments.
Christopher Morley cites a 1893 reference to claim Manhattan means The place where they all get drunk in the native tongue. He notes James Drake’s discussion of William Loring Andrews Bradford Map and a revel linked to Peter Minuit. Morley calls for renaming the island.
A fragment quotes a warning to Jiggers about indulging in a stated absurd fact. The speaker implies trouble awaits him if he continues with that idea, noting his mood or bonnet as the cause.
Local residents and visitors frequent towns this week with numerous arrivals and departures. Families from Louisville Huntingburg and Evansville attended the Meyer Kitten wedding and other gatherings. Transportation, repairs, and social events fill the period as residents travel to St Meinrad Fer dinand Louisville French Lick and Siberia for work and leisure.
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