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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1895
Page
3
An OCR fragment advertises holiday bargains at Hayes and McWilliams with shoes boots calico and quilts. Diefendorf stock lamps and various hardware goods appear among offers. Drayman holds haul contract and local shop windows advertise seasonal wares.
Local ads tout deep discounts on furniture at Gaither and Pickett with items like bedroom suits a4 at 12 and 4 shingle stoves. Dealers promote fast sales, urge visitors to see Amm W Stoner, and mention Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company promotions and other nearby vendors.
A bustling page records residents and visitors across nearby towns including Oden Dodge and Washington. Updates cover illness recoveries, farm work, horse and mule purchases, and shop closures, with advertisements for Gaither Pickett furniture and Pershing Caylor leading local commerce.
Educational items detail teachers associations in Greene County and Princeton, Purdue winter term ships two scholarships to farmers groups, births of speeches and lectures by Alexander Forbes, choir-like accounts of local teachers’ meeting, and social notes on visitors and entertainers. The column blends moral instruction with local education news and social tidbits.
A large discount sale underway offers women's shoes from 1.25 down from 250, men's and boys overcoats at deep cuts, dress goods at 60 to 35 cents down to 30 and 20 cents, and boots priced at 2.00 to 2.50. The ad promises astonishment at prices and urges shoppers to visit the store.
The readable fragments describe a cryptic scene with references to dawn and stacks of items. No clear persons, organizations, or places are identifiable. The text reads as a garbled caption style snippet without a coherent event or names.
The Gazette has become a penny daily and aims to meet the times. The Washington revival proceeds with great interest. The Odon Band bars plan a new performance, Nugget Nell, during the holidays.
Cash Corner notes a cold week with local visits from Mrs. Gore of Burns City and Everett York of Odon. Paris Keck clerks at Yvetle Pershing, Charley Pew and Arthur Phipps win chicken dressing titles, Penrod teaches spelling, and Farlen ships more produce than any town its size. Meeks' team caused a scare at Fearlen but no major damage.
The piece profiles self made business leaders Ike McCoy James McCoy Geo Dr Abraham and Laden Love who built a large shoe harness stock from a small repair shop in Washington. It highlights their success as community builders with notes on advertising farming background and school board service. Also promotes jewelry watches clocks and silverware from N I Jepson and De Witt's Little Early Risers pills with local sales emphasis. It ends urging debtors to settle debts to Dr Barton Sears estate via Luther Sears or Clara Davis.
L. W. Gallaher once ran a thriving lumber products business but was struck by epilepsy. Attacks interrupted his work, causing falls from a carriage and stairs, a shaft plunge in a mill, and near-fatal injuries. He writes from Milwaukee dated February 16.
An item labeled as a time table for West Pound appears with partial wording and garbled characters. The readable fragment indicates a schedule or timetable entry but lacks clear details or dates.
Indebted to Penrod and Winklepleck, late proprietors of the Udon Jewelry Store, are urged to visit this office and settle their accounts at once.
The Daviess Circuit Court in Indiana schedules a quieting title suit brought by Eleanor Torrall Yn against Edward McKinney Joseph Warner Hezekiah Hurrell and others. Defendants listed as non residents are urged to appear by January 9 1895 at the Court House in Washington to answer or demur to the complaint. The action seeks to determine title to real property in Daviess County.
Classic real estate advertisement from West Shoals Indiana promotes homes in the sunny south land with blizzards absent. It claims two to four crops yearly and lands at cheap prices in Georgia and South Carolina, offering terms and maps via David Garey, Real Estate Broker.
The text traces a child’s use of Castoria from infancy to adulthood, noting a continued reliance on the remedy as the subject grows from baby to parent and caregiver. The narrative emphasizes trust in Castoria across stages of life.
A collage of quips and scenes from old newspapers shows fathers admonishing, lovers scheming, and mistaken marriages. Vignettes include a teasing exchange about courting Maude Twickenham, a wine fueled confession, and a Chicago romance twist where two lovers discover they were already married.
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