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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1919
Page
8
Local notices report Rexall Store ads, new goods, and employment pitches. Farmers prep ground amid favorable weather. wheat prospects praised. Residents travel to Lafayette Indianapolis and Bloomfield for events and family visits. An auto shop and street work progress as a two car collision injures two youths near town.
The motion picture industry supplied more than two million feet of film to the treasury for the Victory Liberty Loan. The Price of Peace shows the Chateau-Thierry battle and a German air duel, with army and navy actions depicted. Notable stars Douglas Fairbanks and Julian Eltinge contributed films, and exhibitors will show the works at no cost to the government.
Bolton Hall advises against burying or hiding cash at home in clocks, mattresses, drawers, or stockings. He argues inactive money tempts thieves and that safes are not truly safe. Instead he urges buying registered bonds to protect funds and deter burglars.
German aims to use gas in a five year siege dating to 1912 are cited by American Second Division veterans who found gas masks made in Cologne two years before the war. The Victory Loan is described as the final act to curb German ambitions.
War fund drive call urges citizens to buy Victory Loan bonds to support national effort. The appeal promotes public participation through purchases and pledges to bolster financing for home front mobilization.
Liberty residents attend church services at Shiloh and visit kin across Odon and surrounding families. The report lists numerous households sharing Sunday and Sunday night gatherings with extended kin including the Coyle, Deckard, Chestnut, Harper, Kelsey, Byer, Roach, and Cunningham families among others.
Mr and Mrs D W Bair and their daughter Amogene visited Terre Haute from Sunday to attend the Hill Neerie mer wedding and visit relatives.
R D McCarter states weekly at his office in the E T Laughlin building on West Main Street in Odon and otherwise at his residence to attend to Madison township business.
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