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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1917
Page
5
A crowd gathered for a flag raising event at Gdor Saturday. Several residents and visitors are listed visiting friends and family over the weekend with multiple social calls. A few new measles cases appeared in the past week and local residents report general spring activity and farm work beginning.
Sunday visits and family news dominate the Midway area as numerous residents including Mr. and Mrs. Harve Riggins, Mr. and Mrs. Logan Want, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Beasley, and Mrs. Martha Hattery, plus many others, host and visit relatives across Odon and Terre Haute communities. Preaching at Concord is noted with interwoven social notes and travel to Akron, Ohio, by Ernest Garten.
A wartime admonition urges Daviess county students to aid the war effort by boosting crops and livestock. It praises Indiana’s quota, asks county superintendents to mobilize efforts, and suggests practical tasks for boys and girls to grow potatoes corn beans raise chickens and can tomatoes.
Mrs. Robert Allison of Mattoon Illinois reports relief from indigestion and constipation after using one bottle of Chamberlain's Tablets. She describes heavy pressure in the stomach and chest, poor rest, and fatigue before taking the remedy, and notes she now feels like a different person. Sold by the Odon Drug Co.
A jumble of sale notices from Odon Realty Co and others lists items for sale or trade including gasoline tanks pumps stoves heaters engines and coal mines. It mentions farm land in Washington ind and Holstein calves with prices available by contact at offices and by phone.
Notice that Friend B Colbert as administrator has filed the final report and vouchers in the estate of John S Edwards with the Daviess circuit court. The clerk has set April 30 1917 for the hearing. Mattingly and Myers attorneys 413 2t
Advice favors observing others and learning from their methods. It suggests Cham berlain's Tablets for ailments like indigestion and constipation, claiming good results. Sold by the Odon Drug Co.
Leander W. Freeman has been appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Charles W. Freeman, deceased. The estate is stated to be solvent. Dated April 18, 1917. Leander W. Freeman 4-18-19 31
In a fragmented snippet a city table event is described with unclear names and places. The only clear sense is a struggle to manage a table or exhibit with likely local officials involved and a pending outcome.
Fragmented OCR text lists multiple place names including Jasonville Bedford Odon Ha Heshunter Elnora and references sports times and schedules. Details are unclear but indicates a listing of games or events with varied times across a day.
Secret service agents from several foreign offices and police departments have elevated letter opening to an art. Various papers can be steamed open without trace, then the flap restored with a bone tool. Seal analysis uses a bread store method, and stubborn envelopes are pressed between slotted wood to yield access.
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