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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1902
Page
4
The head of a noted shipping firm received a request from a Swish banker to help his son gain mercantile experience. The executive replied that the son had arrived and been employed at one dollar weekly with others of his class, noting a yacht purchase and an $8000 automobile among the young men.
March and April special round trip excursions to the Pacific coast at less than one cent per mile. Benicfits include education, business, and pleasure travel with Union Pacific agents in Santeena, Ohio. Mail a postal to learn details and start planning trips during March and April.
A Richmond Dispatch reader letter praises a lawyer named Brooks Pieder, recounting years-old cases won for him and noting his enthusiasm and gratitude. The writer recalls Pieder promising to repay the favor, but implies the promise was not kept.
Question on hay supplies answered with a notice promoting millet hay. Prodigiously prolific millet yields 3 to 8 tons per acre. Prices listed: 50 lbs for $1.90, 100 lbs $3.00. Freight terms described. Source: John A. Salter Seed Co. La Crosse Wisconsin.
A youth in a red vest complains the bread is stale and the eggs are old. The clerk’s daughter responds with a quip about fresh customers as the exchange ends in the Chicago Daily News.
An advertisement offers Ailen's Foot-Ease to cure swollen and aching feet. Sold at all druggists and shoe stores with a free sample upon request. Mail order address listed: A S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
A playful exchange notes there is no voice change in goats and asks about scent. The Chicago Daily Wewe tone hints at humor and animal references without a clear event or location.
A collage of vintage ads and quips including cures and nostrums for dropsy bronchitis and toothache, mock poems and editorials, and literary snippets. Mentions Piso’s Cure All, Hale’s Honey Tar, and Penny Dreadful style quips alongside humor about birthdays and poets.
Mrs Francis Popmore recalls relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for years of ovarian pain irregular menses and weakness. The ad urges women with menstrual and uterine troubles to use the product and avoid others.
Reports from Washington detail a rolling debate on the oleomargarine bill across both houses from March 25 to March 29. The measure would tax colored oleomargarine at ten cents per pound and reduce the uncolored tax to a quarter of a penny, with party shifts and seating votes influencing outcomes.
Clarksburg West Virginia March 28 conditions grow more serious after 15 Fairmont Coal Co. mine workers at Mt. Clare are discharged. Five men were arrested and bonded for interfering with officers during a riot suppression. Union man Weekly was badly beaten and may not recover. Police guard the mine as workers are told to shoot for self protection.
In St Louis on March 28 a strike by 160 boys forced the Obear Nester glass works to close. The workers demand higher wages and shorter hours for the 690 employees. Separately, Marcus Hanna states he is not a 1904 presidential candidate and asks friends to stop any such movement.
Representative James M. Griggs of Georgia was unanimously chosen chairman of the Democratic congressional committee at a meeting in the minority caucus room at the capitol in Washington on March 5.
Huntington Mass March 29 Mrs Helen M Warren wife of United States senator from Wyoming Francis E Warren died Friday night at the home of State Representative H N Stanton. Senator Warren and her two children were at her bedside. Chicago March 29 Mrs Minnie Sayers of 259 Erie street appeared on crutches at the station Friday afternoon and demanded arrest of her husband claiming he stole her cork leg.
A businessman endorses the McMillan-Gardner bill proposing re issuing all one two and five dollar notes with blank faces to serve as personal checks for mail transfers. Bill would reduce trips to the post office, boost post office revenue, and keep currency at par while preserving government policy. Citizens urged to contact senators and representatives in Washington to support adoption.
A De troiter recounts a near fatal boiler burst on a rustic farm where a frightened chase after a rat preceded a catastrophic blast. No one was harmed, the probate-like inquest debate turns to blame on Providence versus Jones as the likely culprit.
British officials claim a German sugar cartel, the Kartell, has operated for about a year to fix world prices. They allege Germany now produces a third of beet sugar and exports up to 1,250,000 tons, aided by a bounty. The cartel binds producers and refiners to keep prices high, harming foreign beet and cane industries and prompting talks at Brussels.
Henry Hillis of Catania United States Mortgage plans to bring about 40 young Englishmen to Wichita to be apprenticed on Kansas farms. The idea is to place them on land once bought by London investors and to teach wheat and corn farming. Colonies will form in Logan Finney and Comanche counties. Some English MPs own Kansas land.
The Grand Trunk railway in Canada faces a clash between discipline and habit as telegraph operators, used to playing checkers over the wires, are caught in a prank when the new superintendent secretly taps in during a quiet moment. A western operator asks “Whose next move?” and receives a curt response claiming the next move as the superintendent.
Henry C. Merwin notes in Atlantic that a statement titled A Statement in Be half of Science endorsed vivisection without anaesthetics and defended animal dissection for classroom illustration. It was supported by President Eliot and other leaders, contrasting with England where classroom vivisection without anaesthetics is illegal. The document uses decorous language yet covers all forms of cruelty justified in the name of science.
A Chinese man slipped three oranges into his sleeve at a party and claimed his mother loved oranges. The episode was dismissed as filial behavior and used to illustrate a folk attitude toward stealing, with proverbs about tailors and silversmiths pilfering avoiding food and starvation.
Colonel T. P. Moody a prominent Knight Templar and Chicago jeweler endorses Peruna after long catarrh and stomach troubles. He reports dramatic relief and urges others to persevere with Peruna. Moody cites his wife’s bronchial illness improving as well.
The Grand Trunk Railway System reports ongoing improvements in dining car service. Cafe Parlor cars run on most divisions and receive praise from travelers for the new menu cards and stylish bill of fare appealing to passengers.
First lieutenant on a Colombian warship asks to bombard a city this afternoon but the captain and an American commander decline. The American commander complains of a headache yet allows the strike tomorrow if weather permits him to photograph the attack with his kodak.
A brief exchange from Columbus Journal noting the Easterner asking if the cyclone caused much damage to a farm, and the Kansan replying that they cannot tell until they inspect the site.
A quoted saying from Uncle Ehen in the Washington Star notes that pursuing the better outcome in a dispute is rarely worth the time spent, cautioning readers about overcommitting to lengthy arguments.
The passage notes the broad range of diseases labeled as catarrh and hints at a forthcoming free catarrh book from The Peruna Medicine Co. of Columbus Ohio. It emphasizes the novelty of listing many catarrh diseases and invites readers to request the booklet.
In a Bradford performance conductor anecdote, a young clarinetist kept jumping as his trombone‑playing father behind him warned of flat notes with a quip about trouble ahead. The story highlights the playful tension between parent and child in a live opera setting.
A compact quotation set contrasts autographs with works by doctors builders and sculptors. It notes polite requests for signatures versus specimens of work, using Twain and a humorous exchange about books and reading. The piece circles around cultural respect for professional outputs.
A fragment notes a crank out west claiming to invent a theater hat for ladies that will shut up when the curtain rises. The remark includes a jab about a boxing party and references to Rashness and Fuller in a quip filled period mood.
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