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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1912
Page
10
The article notes various locals visiting towns and a birth at the Neukam home in Jasper. A bright little Miss was born Monday evening, named Ruth, bringing smiles to Pete Neukam and family. The piece mentions several residents from Celestine Ferdinand Jasper and Loogootee in casual town news.
Local notes from Fulda include social visits by Nick Pfeiffer and Robert Thoma to Evansville and Haubstadt, a dance honoring Sadie and Emma Collignon of Owensboro, a church tower repaint by Sergesketter & Sons, and the Spencer Co Teachers Institute in Rockport. A severe storm damaged corn, tobacco, and property but no lives were lost. Community birthdays celebrated for Mrs. Mary Birchler and Mrs. Leo Birchler. Residents and visitors from Vincennes, Evansville, Cloverport, Jasper, Louisville, and Mariah Hill participate in events and travel.
ST MEINRAD heavy shower Wednesday noon. Nick Senninger of Ferdinand was in town Tuesday on business. Mr and Mrs Linua Spayd of Mariah Hill were in town Sunday. Albert Becher and John Gra man were at Adgeville Sunday. Geo Sturm was at Huntingberg last week.
An advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 prize for an incurable case. It cites J C Cheney & Co and National Bank of Commerce Toledo, claims personal integrity of B S Cheney, and promotes internal treatment, Hall’s Family Pills, and Henry Beckmann & Sons selling patterns.
Effective April 90 1911 the north bound train 0 leaves Johnsburg 3 59 am and 6 15 pm. South bound train 12 leaves Johnsburg 8 29 am and 12 07 pm and 8 16 pm. Above figures published for information and not guaranteed. No 9 Louisville Accommodation No 10 Evangville Accommodation Nos 11 18 1 14 ran solid between Won and Braseville carrying passengers.
Rome notes that relics from Grecian and Roman era are being exposed by Italy's campaigns in Tripolitania Cyrene and Aegean islands. Archaeologists highlight Crusader epoche and Crete echoes of Venice power as Cyrene tombs built by Greeks and Egyptian slaves are repurposed by Arabs.
Buried in shifting sands are ideal mines of ancient artifacts. The Mahmoura valley and hillside yield tombs. Greek Cyrene’s reservoir reveals potential treasures that could reshape history. In Rhodes, Crusader era fortresses reveal foundations of the Colossus era and French arms like Montjoyes and Saint Denises still visible on local castles.
In Burlington New Jersey a hearing before Magistrate Smith featured a stubborn domestic dispute between Mrs Mary Hotosk and neighbor Mrs Wattsin Drombos. A bundle of long brown hair served as evidence of alleged jealousy and attempted control over a husband. Mrs Drombos sustained a head injury and fled from the dock as the case unfolded. Hotoskki was held on $200 bail to the grand jury with possible counterclaims anticipated.
Providence police attempted to arrest Annie Currie twenty for larceny of a diamond ring valued at seventy five dollars. She barricaded herself in her Broadway room refusing clothing and undressing to avoid capture. After hours of urging she finally dressed when a friend intervened in the evening.
Miss Mary Cremina unknown to herself swallowed several bridged false teeth over a year. They lodged in her throat causing pain and wasting. An X ray located the foreign body and doctors operated to remove them.
Dwight E. Woodbridge recalls a voyage aboard the Astrea up Norway’s iron rich coast from 66 degrees latitude, noting vast iron deposits, a thriving cod industry with fifty million cod caught yearly, and remote towns like Svolvaer and Narvik with telegraph links and electric utilities amid bitter seas and stark fjords.
In Trenton New Jersey Katherine Logue seeks $1100 from the estate of late Rev Misale of Basking Ridge. Logue, housekeeper, says she entrusted the money to the priest thirty years ago before leaving for Ireland. Executors hold the funds. she lacks evidence of delivery. Monsignor John H. Fox has joined to pursue recovery.
A Black boy in a village devises a trick to obtain a chicken. He cracks an egg over the bird’s head and tells his mother the fowl ate the egg, then claims he caught it, securing the Sunday meal by deception.
The notice lists that no charge will be made for items under the head and ads must be limited to five lines with a signature. It also states copies must reach the office before Wednesday of each week.
Readers share praise for Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as the best remedy for prevention and cure of headaches. Testimonials from John Bush of Waterville Maine and Joseph Frankowick of Detroit Michigan claim fast relief without stomach upset, with a promise of refunds if the first package fails.
A dance is planned at Sternberg's nail hall in St Anthony for Tuesday night October 1. A meeting will be held at Hubert Quante's business to discuss rock roads in the township on the same Tuesday night.
Mr Henry Haske of Ferdinand Indiana sends a three dollar check to renew and extend his subscription to the Ever Welcome News in Huntingburg Indiana dated September 20 1912.
A notice announces Dr Metzger, a dentist, has moved to a new office west of Henry Beckmann’s store. The new facility contains eight modern dental chairs and offers scientific dentistry. An advertisement for next week’s issue is promised.
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