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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1893
Page
3
A damaged advertisement promotes The Peoples Restaurant, offering lunch items to take away. The copy mentions chicken, quail, boiled items, dried beef, pies, cakes, bread, candies, cigars and tobacco, with references to oysters and other goods. It asserts a first class restaurant and constant stock, inviting customers to visit.
Fragmentary OCR reads Smiley Hayes and Le names with unclear context about a previous Rin nek and a call to come and ovaname of wat tie. Unable to determine full event or authority.
Long fragmentary notices report visits and events across Sullivan and nearby towns. Mentions Johnson County visits, remodeling, a fire bell installation, auctions, a baby abandonment in Princeton, and community meetings. Includes ads for goods, services, and upcoming lectures and sales.
A mother edges toward caution as her daughter nears womanhood in a tale of vulnerability. Blanche, fifteen, loses use of her right arm and endures nervous distress while guardians fear illness and misfortune from societal threats.
Governor Matthews rejects parole petition for Mrs. Burr Hawes hus. Attorney Dennis warned the request will be refused. Local readers recall the hawes case and the paper notes price listings and agricultural items from Cleveland era.
A man from St. Louis wagered five thousand dollars he could ride from Santa Fe New Mexico to Independence Missouri with only available remounts. He crossed wilderness, traded as needed with Indians, and finished in four days fourteen hours covering eight hundred eighty miles at nearly eight miles an hour for 110 straight hours.
Notice from the Order of the Lodge No. SPOT announcing a meeting and construction on Christmas Eve and other details. The piece includes an editorial admonition to sign editorials and notes about rejected articles and spelling matches.
A dubious remedy ad touts Electric Bitters as a cure all for liver stomach and kidney ailments. It urges readers to obtain the product from Pep mer's and promises swift relief after use.
Markings Licenses record several transfers including Abraham Catshall to Rebecca Miner and George Fo Trotter to Martha L Alford. Other transfers note Qeear Wadsworth to Chin E Overton and Itah triegery to Lidie M Rivers along with additional pairs.
Week ending December 7 reports transfers in Daviess and surrounding counties. Listings include Catharine Brian from Fayetteville Cosby. Laura V Graham and others to Daviess County parcels in sections. Eva M Keier and Joseph A Crary parcels. John C Biltheimer and Ricard Clerian note. Anastasia Medina Nicholas and William Wade. Feagans and John F Borgntot in Davie area. Clement Lee with Jesparish Stergeon. Jervush Satgeun and Tams. Francis Gaugh and Mary Gough acres 17.53. Christian Hastings and Pope portion in Griffith. Reported weekly by Abstracter A J Smiley, Washington Indiana.
An odd Madagascar serpent called the scimitar snake is described with a sharp black back edge and nonpoisonous bite, supposedly stripping limbs from victims. The piece shifts to a Wyoming voting rights jab at English opinions, recounting a dinner debate where a bachelor questions women's capacity for government, ending with a retort about intellect and hair.
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