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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1916
Page
2
A German submarine UC-5 carrying 12 mines was displayed in the Thames. A British diver removed detonators, rendering the mines safe. The craft, built in Germany and assembled at Zeebrugge, measured 110 feet with 16 crew aboard.
Hunters in Velva North Dakota uncover two cave systems with the skeletal remains of a man a woman and a child. Investigators believe starvation or confinement by Indians led to death. Nearby reports note a mule scavenging, and a Utah cave with hand prints and ancient relics.
A German petty officer and the daughter of a deceased mother, traveling from German ports to the United States, rekindled romance during wartime. The uncle Otto Dehner, a brewer, objected to the engagement and sent the girl to relatives in Germany and refused to provide contact.
A London airman describes the mental strain of aerial combat, noting that modern aircraft let a pilot sit with little hand on the lever. He warns that low clouds and sudden shells are deadly, and that imagined horrors fill surplus time in flight.
In Liano Texas a poker chip shortage fueled by wartime demand triggers a barite search. A large barite deposit was found ten miles north of town, promising to replenish chips. In Eldred Pennsylvania a fruit train wreck near Buffalo led to a day of joy as watermelons piled up after 15 cars telescoped by a broken rail.
A fragment notes a ten year living arrangement and a private wedding after the lover’s name was found. It mentions Gibraltar as the smallest British possession at two square miles and Canada as the largest British possession at 8,746,000 square miles.
Larned Kansas reports Enoch Chase found a dismembered Jolot snake in an old dugout. He placed a joint in a bucket and watched as the head whistled for the others, which then scattered and rejoined before an auto distracted the creature and it escaped into tall grass.
In New York a gray suited man buys a 50 cent perfecto cigar at an uptown hotel counter. He cuts the end, adds a yellowback paper to the gas lighter, pays, and leaves as four bellhops watch the burning shred, noting the paper bears two Xs and could be redeemable by Uncle Sam.
In Waterbury Connecticut Andrew Yanksuskas nine and sister Mary eight vanished while fishing. They wandered five days in the woods near Lakewood park living on wild berries until a policeman found them. The parents had despairing hopes of drowning. The tale mirrors the fairy story Babes in the Wood.
Peggy Gillespie born in Punxsutawney Pennsylvania rose to Parisian fashion fame before dying at 34 in Hyeres and Paris. She married Henry Letellier on her deathbed after a life of lavish style and charity during World War I.
In Curtisville Pennsylvania Joseph Kunkle age thirty three a miner killed his six year old daughter Lelia after a violent quarrel with his wife. He forced his wife to use a revolver then shot at her and the child. The dying girl died at a physician’s office.
A Baltimore American editorial argues churches should resist platform rhetoric and favor mature preaching. It condemns youth driven reform and advocates elders with experience to lead in true theology and faithful ministry to the needy. It warns against superficialism and calls for reverent, era-spanning doctrine.
Foundation stone of a new cathedral in Kampala was laid by King Daudi Chwa in November. Governor Sir F. Jacky son attended unofficially as a large crowd gathered. The church is described as a major Ugandan Christian project named the bill of peace.
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