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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
2
The Odon Journal highlights a mix of whimsical observations and local rumors. Items touch on Halley’s Comet timing, Mars life notions, fashion woes, hygiene, and public curiosities, including a physician’s hookworm treatment and a proposition about meat prices.
A casual observer notes Halley’s comet shines brilliantly but not as brightly as magnitude thirteen stars. The report compares its luster to nearby stellar brightness, tempering exaggerated claims.
The Chicago man paying $15 000 annually to his wife and daughter as pin money sets an example few husbands will imitate. Winnipeg endures 16 inches of snow from the late storm prompting railroads to deploy snowplows to clear tracks. Canada resists the nickname Our Lady of the Snows.
A joint army and navy board will study fortifications for Panama Canal defense. The proposal forecasts waterway completion and asserts the United States will keep the canal open for global commerce while guarding it against attack.
Mr. Wilbur Wright states the aeroplane will be ready for business journeys in two or three years. He compares the coming change to the telephone and steam travel revolutions, foreseeing astonishing developments as the century closes.
A Cincinnati convention of coffinmakers laments that inflation makes death cheaper for the living, arguing higher costs strain their trade as they face rising prices while people continue to die.
Physicians seek to abolish the London cuff at the bottom of trousers, which gathers dampness and is a prolific source of colds. They admit they cannot remove it without first introducing an alternative form of London nonsense.
Washington November 29 The Ballinger annual report to the president urges vigorous prosecution of land frauds and stronger enforcement of public land laws. It advocates private enterprise under federal supervision for land development and recommends Congress authorize up to 30 million dollars in reclamation fund bonds. Reorganization of the Indian bureau is proposed with closures of western warehouses and expanded park policies for Yellowstone and Yosemite.
A Scottish clergyman meets a working man in a railway carriage. The man reveals he has been a coupler for over 20 years. The minister boasts of 30 years as a coupler, then the worker declares he can uncouple while the minister cannot.
A jeweler notes a customer requests engraving inside a ring reading From Guy to Gwenyth 71 graved. The youth asks not to cut Gwenyth too deep and mentions potential future alterations to Gladys or trené.
The piece questions judging a man by enemies while noting friends willingly share his faults. It frames folly as a lens on reputation and truth, urging readers to weigh sources before forming judgments.
City of Para reports Corinto authorities executed forty citizens by order of President Zelaya after cheering an insurgent victory. Corinto stayed under guard during the shipboard visit. Salvador’s president denied trouble, noting arrests in Honduras of malcontents planning an invasion.
In New Orleans the exiled provisional Nicaraguan government notes that Juan Delphas tipped President Zelaya about revolution plans. The uprising reportedly began 48 hours early. Consul Sussman cites international law restricting penalties to 14 years for offenses linked to Cannon and Grace, executed by Zelaya.
Mrs Ben Webb of this city converted to Apostolic faith fasted two months for a cure. She lived on two meals daily for two months and abstained from all food for six weeks, allowing only a small amount of water.
Dr Low ell of the Lowell Observatory installs a 12 inch telescope on San Francisco Peak at 13 000 feet to ensure a clear atmosphere for Mars study.
Florence Bishop aged 60 once a popular actress was found dead from burns at the rear of a smokehouse on the property of her employer W A Haviland near Lockport Authorities suspect she may have taken her own life based on the circumstances of the scene and preliminary inquiry.
Jefferson City Mo State Hotel Inspector Johnson appoints Joe Albus of St Joseph as deputy hotel inspector for northwest Missouri in a formal announcement.
Ulrich Sorensen of Berwyn Nebraska wed the daughter of a local farmer near Broken Bow. He had risen to 3 500 feet in a self built balloon plane on June 15 but the craft somersaulted and was destroyed. He says he will abandon aviation ambitions at his bride’s request and seek quieter pursuits.
Ex Secretary of the Treasury Lyman Judson Gage wed Frances Ada Ballou in a private Coronado ceremony attended by only the couple's families and two witnesses. The couple, issued a license the day before, left for Denver aboard the Owl train after a wedding supper.
Mansfield La Baptists pass resolutions opposing Sabbath desecration and widespread intemperance. They will memorialize the next legislature to suppress all Sunday sports including baseball fishing hunting theaters excursions and picnics and to prevent stores from opening with drug stores only allowed to fill physicians prescriptions.
In Washington D C Herbert Erfurde a white 12 year old pupil was accidentally shot and killed by Henry Gibson a colored 13 year old while they were out hunting.
The Cook County marriage license bureau reports over 1000 marriages on Thanksgiving day in Chicago Illinois, reflecting a surge in nuptials amid the holiday.
Virgil Nash of Triplett Missouri and Miss Alice Beckner of South Bend Indiana wed in a chair car of a passenger train at a railroad station in Macon Missouri.
Purdy Missouri born Methodist Episcopal minister John E Laugh age 2 died in Vancouver Washington from injuries at Ryan and Allen sawmill in Hasten. The death follows an accident while at work and officials report cause as sawmill mishap. Laugh served at Purdy and was associated with the church in Missouri.
Adam Weingart 35 of Dunmore slipped at the mouth of the Leggett Creek shaft and plunged 500 feet to his death. Every bone in his body was broken.
Federal prosecutors press for more indictments as Thomas C. Giddings, an assistant customs weigher, is arrested for conspiracy in fig imports. New York Port collector William Loeb Jr. has removed ten more weighers, totaling eighty three since March 9, and says no further shake ups are planned. He refuses to identify those dropped or file charges against them.
In Washington, Attorney General Wickersham jokes that he was the "damn fool" who wrote a treasury department opinion on money matters. Comptroller Tracewell visits him with a disputed ruling and, after reviewing the copy, the AG alters the memorandum.
An attempted train wreck on the Illinois Central three miles north of Pana involved three piles of ties 25 to 35 feet high. A southbound freight slowed and struck the obstructions at about 10 o clock. the pilot was damaged while the engineer and crew avoided serious harm. Decatur bloodhounds and IC detectives investigate.
H E Agar, accused of arranging a fake death by drowning to flee grain swindles, was sentenced to two to fourteen years in the state prison. He was captured at San Benito Texas.
A high wind blew down a chimney and closed a parlor stove damper causing coal gas asphyxiation of Charles Herrick aged 80 and his housekeeper Miss Idal Lydston in Lynn Massachusetts on Herrick's birthday.
The Princeton was ordered to sail from Bremerton naval yard in Washington to Corinto Nicaragua to join the gunboat Vicksburg, expanding the Pacific squadron's presence amid tensions and patrol duties.
A widely known remedy claims to cure colds quickly using whiskey glycerine and a concentrated pine compound. The mixture is shaken before each use and taken in teaspoon to tablespoon doses every four hours. the pine product comes in half ounce air tight bottles labeled Concentrated.
Smythe asks about coal costs. Jones boasts paying nothing as he lives by the railway. He says he uses his sor to make grimaces at engineers as trains pass.
Patient describes relief from a skin eruption after using Cuticura products. Initial pus-tules spread to other areas with severe itching, tearing skin. After employing Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills, itching stopped within days and eruption vanished in about three weeks.
A Stockholm study shows 1.61 percent of children eight to fifteen have tuberculosis. Extrapolated to the U S this implies 273 700 affected children. Only 11 open air TB schools operate with nine more under consideration and gaps remain in accommodating needy kids.
An early student description discusses clothing, noting savages or natives wear little, Eskimos wear more for cold climates, and contrasts gendered dress with hats and frocks. The tone reflects period views on apparel and social identifiers in a London school essay.
A Memphis wife recounts how her husband recovered from stomach and heart issues after stopping coffee and using Postum instead. She notes a 35 pound gain over a year, an improved taste after proper boiling, and ongoing regular use. The letter promotes Postum and references The Road to Wellville and a slogan There’s a Reason.
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