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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1909
Page
2
The New Orleans paper reports a psychologist arguing that all children are born criminals and will lie steal slander and commit violence unless trained. He cites theft in candy shops and a tendency to slander others as inherent flaws that require discipline to prevent later crime.
The article recounts children returning to Sunday school after illness. A girl jokes about measles while another mentions mumps. The superintendent asks Charlie what he had and he responds with a high pitched song claiming he had a little brother.
The Brooklyn Life quotes pondering how to persuade an assemblyman to advocate good roads, jokingly suggesting to offer him an automobile as an incentive.
An entertaining promotional piece extols the potato noting its wide uses from dextrine in gums to vegetable ivory in buttons. It claims potato starch stiffens collars and its dried leaves smoke, while potato spirit fortifies wine and its syrup appears in cocoa honey butter and lard. The piece ends by declaring the reader cannot escape the potato.
A playful exchange has Tortoise accusing, Snail admitting to starting a motor car to keep up with modern times. The pair reflects on speed, progress, and adaptation in a whimsically dated dialogue.
Old Uncle Latzen Berry recalls Almira Stang ending her eight year engagement to Charles Henry Toytwiler. He had saved 217 pairs of socks as part of her lessons in economy, which led her to end the match.
A church pastor seeks a vacation and plans to visit a brother-worker in a nearby village. On Sunday morning the visitor recognizes him in the congregation and asks to lead in prayer, but the pastor replies he is on vacation and declines the request.
A fragmented OCR reads a joke line about Jonah and a fish dinner, plus several advertising blurbs for Lewis' Single Binder cigarettes, eye defect remedies, Woolford's Lotion, and a quip about thinking avoiding the undertaker.
Description outlines two gowns with elaborate trimmings. The left gown features black tulle over white liberty with a lilacberry corsage girdle and pink rose bouquet. The right gown uses black tulle with coral embroidery and white liberty revers, finished by a tunic skirt over white liberty.
A leather shopping bag features a side extension that remains folded and clasped when empty and unclasps to double its size after shopping. The design allows the bag to hold a large amount of items, including night dresses and traveling gear, and suggests decorative ribbon variations with enameled buttons to secure the extension.
The article explains a simple embroidery method using French knots to decorate gingham shirtwaists. It outlines step by step how to place knots, keep color contrast, ensure uniform twists and directions, and suggests using dark silk on light squares and light silk on dark squares for a striking effect.
A simple night dress pattern described with a front insertion, gathered fullness at the neck, and a narrow lace edged band. Materials listed include five and a half yards of 36 inch fabric six yards insertion and 1½ yards lace.
Belt buckles crafted in silver showcase Japanese characters for good luck and long life. The pieces are noted for their striking appearance and cultural symbolism.
The wardrobe of nearly every girl will boast a princess slip this summer. Designed for wear with wet and sheer materials, it comes in flowered silk and pale tones, lawn, or mercerized fabrics. It features long graceful lines, snug fit, elbow sleeves for evening wear, or long sleeves and high neck for day wear. A plaited frounce finish or deep hem is possible, and it fastens down the back with small crochet buttons.
Women with narrow heels suffer from ready made footwear as shoes ride up the heel causing painful blisters. The remedy is to insert velvet between heel and shoe or trim velvet to prevent pressure, keeping size while adding comfort and avoiding felt soles.
Dr W G Davis of Groesbeck Texas cites a patient who recovered after Dean's Kidney Pills. The testimonial says the patient endured back pain dizziness and headaches before passing gravel stones and regaining health. Sold by dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Yale professor William Lyon Phelps visited West Point last fall to lecture in the chapel. Cadets sat rigidly attentive as an Irish setter wandered up on to the platform. The professor noticed the calm dog and quipped about expectations of West Pointers in the room.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces and offers a one hundred dollar reward for any case it fails to cure. References F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A concise quip on language origin compares monologue to money words. The professor explains derivation, noting mono as slang for money and logos as word, humorously framing the term as words for money.
Ad copy touts Murine marine eye remedy as soothing and conforming to Pure Food and Drug Laws. It claims relief for red weak weary watery eyes from experienced physicians and urges trying Murine at drngists. The piece ends with Garfield Tea touting health benefits and a laxative claim for constipation and blood purification.
The United States continues to see sugar production lag behind consumer demand. Analysts note supply constraints and policy effects while prices rise.
A comic exchange shows a nephew failing an exam and being asked why. He says the wretches asked him the same question last year, highlighting a cyclical punchline about repeated failure.
The statesman Webster reportedly answered a dinner guest that he varies in eating. Sometimes I eat more but never less. This light anecdote reflects his calm approach to meals and restraint at public dinners.
A Brooklyn Life quip questions consent with the line Did a man ever kiss you against your will The reply notes some have thought they did reflecting social attitudes in a concise street corner reflection.
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