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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1900
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR shows jumbled medicines and condition phrases like kidney and bladder disorders, diabetes, eruptions and toxins. Mentions remedies and products with unclear branding, plus garbled names and terms suggesting a late 19th or early 20th era patent medicine page.
The Odon Journal describes the town of Odon Indiana as a thriving county seat in Daviess County. It highlights electric lights, churches, a six room hotel, coal mines nearby, a normal school, a railroad connection, and a strong agricultural region supporting business and residents.
Arivma and New Mexico advance toward statehood while population gains fuel petitions. Representative Taylor of Ohio has introduced a constitutional amendment to outlaw polygamy and create a uniform marriage and divorce system nationwide.
Fragmentary notes discuss counties towns and the United States name airfioreoo with no state, mentioning Oklahoma and the Indian territory as carved from Jefferson’s era. It references J Louis Giube a Democrat and a tribute to Thomas Jefferson.
Fragmentary record recalls the death of Senator Davis and mentions a successor awaiting designation by a ministerial body. The text hints at political maneuvers and potential timing for a formal appointment.
The State School Superintendent supports creating a county superintendent role and introducing a bill next month. He proposes salaries based on county fusion, with a maximum around 1600 dollars and a minimum of 500. The Daviess County supe rintend ent would earn about 1550 annually under the plan.
The report notes unexpected high estimates for cooling machines at $600 each. Market chatter suggests rapid introduction may falter if costs stay elevated, with several models already available and more expected to reach the market.
A Chicago professor warns that Lake Michigan will inundate the city in about 1500 years as the lake slowly rises. The article notes Chicago is sinking nine inches per century and discusses broader railway steel use and various social anecdotes.
New Jersey approved a state aid law in 1501 detailing cost shares for road improvements. Abutting property owners pay ten percent, the state covers 83.13 percent, and the county funds the remainder plus maintenance, with early allocations going to Middlesex County in December 289s for a $20 campaign to keep roads dry.
A gang was rounded up after a raid that yielded epuroun metal dies and tools. Officers seized a stash and captured the offenders, whose earnings were counted in dollars and nickels. The town remained in uproar all day Tuesday as the arrest dominated talk.
The Covert Hagaman lectures to expose spiritualism and related subjects begin next Saturday night at the Christian church. Lectures proceed Saturday December 22 and Sunday December 23 with no talks on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, then resume Wednesday December 26 and continue nightly for the rest of the week. Tickets for a five lecture course are 50 cents or 15 cents per night, available at the Journal office.
All persons with photos at the gallery may secure their negatives within the next two weeks. Keeping the negative in their possession allows cheaper reprints and better care. If the photographer moves away or you relocate you avoid hunting him down.
The master of the estate of Sane Cuestrut deceased in the Davis Court enters January term 1901. The administrator has filed final settlement and vouchers for approval on January 8, 1901. All interested parties must appear to show cause why the account should not be approved and to prove heirship or claims to the estate.
Legal notice lists numerous defendants and their kin in a pendency matter. Names include Sullivan Thacher Johnson and variations with multiple spellings and unknown heirs. The document references stage claims and legal representatives in an estate dispute.
Fragments show scattered times and codes such as 12:35 and 6:32.75 with letters and numbers like E158 B305 and P.M. The text references Seymour and Bedford and includes stray abbreviations, making a coherent event unclear.
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