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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1906
Page
1
The piece traces the Bible’s origin as a river of history from Sinai to the present, noting the Septuagint as the Greek translation used by Christ and apostles. It recounts the Ptolemaic library story, the seventy translators, and explains why the Septuagint influenced New Testament quotations.
Deputy Sheriff Harry Smith was killed and Constable Robert McCabe fatally wounded six miles southeast of Orleans on Saturday evening. John Roby and Olver Haycock, brothers in law, shot the officers as they arrived to quell a fight at the Roby home. The brothers fled from Crawford county to Orleans area to avoid arrest for stealing and were later captured after a chase to Jeffersonville. A Roby relative had committed suicide here about 10 or 12 years ago.
Allan MacMaster prints a humorous risque verse about a fashionable man who defies gender norms. The narrator mocks the subject’s appearance and manners with cartoonish insistence, suggesting nature might be playful and that society now recognizes a third sex.
Bedford planermen struck Monday over 35 cents an hour, halting arrivals at mills. Some left town by early trains to seek work elsewhere while others report replaced at machines. Badley yards pay the strikers’ demanded rate. quarrymen continue work. About 125 workers out, previously earning 28 3/4 cents per hour.
Vincennes Sun owner editor Royal E Parcell faces a fine after publishing a sharp attack on Congressman Chaney accusing him of giving post office favors to one Knox county Republican faction and distributing garden seeds to the other. Chaney responds by sending seeds to Purcell, a Democratic representative. John McCormick of Greene county spent the winter in Washington and visited John Williams and family this week.
A Oklahoma letter from 1904 extols westward migration to the Panhandle Texas and Oklahoma. It notes rising land values from 3.50 to 35 per acre, thriving farms with new frames, groves, and barns, and strong crop yields including wheat kaffir corn and milo maiz. The writer urges readers to buy and relocate for homes and farming opportunities.
Matthew M. McBride narrowly escaped drowning Saturday while delivering the mail on route 1 from Washington. Prairie Creek rose high forcing him to unhitched from his wagon and ford the stream on horseback. The horse balked and tired, McBride clung to his mail sack and swam to a stump where a passerby rescued him.
The quote notes a personal item is worthless to others, emphasizing self reliance and responsibility.
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