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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1918
Page
4
An expert warns that soft corn years devastate crops and livestock markets, while hard corn stored and sold later lowers costs. Early season fertilizer with phosphoric acid and ammonia speeds growth, reduces late frost risk, and helps ripen corn quickly for a responsive harvest.
The ad page notes Xmas card tags and a Rexall store with a weather calendar. It mentions G H Gilpatrick on a trip to Terre Haute, piano bargains via Asa Haig, and money loans at 5 4 percent. People from Indian apolis and Terre Haute are referenced alongside local merchants M B Ulrich Co and J E Rosenberry.
Notices request debts to Dr T E Rankin and N F Barkley be settled by Dec ioth and soon as the writer departs for the coast. Announcements promote Rexall products and Compound Syrup Tar with Extract Cod Livers Mentholated sold at the Rex Store and blue front next to the post office. Miss Mary Jane Lovejoy and Emma May attend the National Business Women's Congress in Chicago with Lovejoy joining The Qdon Drug Co and running the Odon Music Store after January.
A census shows France down 17 percent in beef cattle 38 percent in sheep and 40 percent in hogs since December 31 1913. Italy loses 21 percent horses 18 percent mules and 8 percent swine. Europe’s total livestock drop may equal half of America’s current stock totaling about 100 million head.
An array of small town notices details visitors and local comings and goings. Andrew Myers of Springfield Mo visits his parents and returns home. Bechel of Camp Custer returns to camp after a furlough. A. D. S. Beeflion and Wine touted as tonic options. The Rexall Store receives a fresh coat of paint. Wm Sears and Robt Daugherty plaster and cement a new garage for Wm Swirda near Elnora.
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