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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1901
Page
4
A sermon by Dr. Talmage lifts Paul’s basket escape from Damascus into a meditation on small causes with great effects. The tale highlights unrecognized helpers, the rope that lowered Paul, and how minute acts sustain vast historical outcomes across faith, family, and mission.
A heavy cherry desk once used by Captain Ulysses Grant in his prewar real estate days in St Louis traveled to Cleveland with life insurance man Avery. The desk stayed in Avery and Grant’s maps of Crimea fascinated Grant, who criticized Allied plans. later Brewer kept the piece for its historic associations before it was moved to an attic storage.
The States of Guernsey and Jersey, historic assemblies, show differing practices. Jersey’s etats de deliberation has 46 voting members while etats d election includes 224 total with jurats elected by ratepayers. The bailiff and others hold limited powers and the lieutenant governor cannot vote.
A juvenile Bunko Han tale shows Tommy speaking on the golden rule and then presenting his father with a pie and a large apple as a playful moral lesson. The San Francisco Bulletin records the exchange as a light, whimsical anecdote.
The description outlines a pig trough with a swing door, including Fig. 1 showing the rear partition and troughs. It instructs using a two inch plank spiked together in a V shape with uprights of suitable material for construction and use, noting it gives good satisfaction.
In Ohio Farmer W. H. Hune describes an enhanced hog trough with uprights bored for red iron parts, a cut tenon door, and a latch mechanism. A pull lever unlocks the front door, allowing easy cleaning and feeding without hog interference, then the door relatches for containment.
A London scholar famed for sword derivation stores furniture in Berlin. A warehouse letter reports a mattress sent with a moth infestation, leading to its destruction to protect other clients. The scholar retorts the mattress may have had moths and an 'e' in it.
A frazzled traveler aboard a steamer overhears a distraught state room neighbor shouting about seasickness and the fear of drowning. A sleepy reply reveals confusion over breathing when the ship rises or sinks as waves crash and passengers cry out in distress.
An 19th century ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes, claiming foot relief for swollen, sore and hot feet, ingrown nails, corns and bunions, with Allen's Foot-Base to ease tight shoes. Sold by druggists and shoe stores, 25 cents. Free sample by mail to Allen8 Olmsted LeRoy NY. Also promotes Hoxsie's Croup Cure for coughs colds and croup, 50 cents, no opium.
A Boston Post cartoon caption questions a hair parted monkey with a cane remarking that a man could descend from such a creature. The dialogue highlights humor about evolution and human ancestry.
The pastor questions Bradder Eph'm about his faith while Eph'm confesses backsliding and penitence, saying he has strayed recently. The dialogue reflects on spiritual struggle and repentance.
Brief playful note cites a quote from the Chicago Daily News about tracing lineage to King Edward I. The item features a quip about the speaker’s ancestry and remarks on a long downward path as a light cultural aside.
A fair young resident at a Baltimore boarding house table voices approval of strikes in the hot months when workers would seek vacations, during a labor discussion reported by the Baltimore American.
A terse Baltimore American item notes that a young man’s letter on fly paper should not be read as romantic fixation. The writer cautions Marie B. of Waverly-No to avoid premature conclusions about the sender’s feelings.
In a brief dialogue the two unnamed characters debate love and reason with hints of mockery and frustration. One laments impractical devotion while the other questions genuine affection, revealing tension and sarcasm in a clipped exchange.
A French agricultural journal outlines colt selection, arguing maturity varies by age and that useful judgment grows with observation. It notes six to eighteen months as uncertain, while eighteen months can reveal future merit and at five to six years a horse is fully matured.
Farmers discuss preserving corn fodder and feeding cows in husk to cut costs. The author notes cutting corn at half ripened blades, grinding and husking by cattle, and selling milk to a condensing factory. Properly saved dry fodder can rival ensilage in nutrition.
A Siberian mammoth carcass, 50,000 years dead, yielded undigested food in its stomach. Scientists report this as a striking instance related to chronic dyspepsia. Louisville Courier Journal reports the finding.
Market report style listing cattle calves hogs and other commodities across Cincinnati Chicago New York Baltimore Louisville and Indianapolis with prices for flour wheat corn oats rye pork lard butter apples potatoes and tobacco alongside ranges and averages for common and extra grades.
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