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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1892
Page
3
A bold holiday sale notice highlighting a wide range of goods. Silk handkerchiefs and fascinators, mufflers and ties for ladies and gentlemen, dress goods, trimmings, pants, and fine sturdy boots promoted to attract shoppers during the holiday season.
Local items include civic notices on sidewalk ordinance and school access, plus tasting of medicines like Simmons Liver Regulator. Personal notices mention visits to Washington and Bloomfield, shop completions, and musical serenades by the Oden band amid commerce ads for stone, poultry, eggs, and furniture.
Advertisement offers free trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery and New Life Pills from S. Pensingers Drugstore. Readers send name and address to H. E. Bucklen & Co. Chicago for samples and a health guide. Also notices of lodge elections in Indiana and tribal groups with dates and officers.
The town of Odon in Daviess County Indiana enacts a sidewalk ordinance. It orders sidewalks on the west side of Osk Street from Oak and Bisin to Race, and on Grove Street from Race and Grove to the planned walk in front of William Haig’s property. The paths use 4 inch timber and planks, widths vary by street, built to grade, and completed by January 1 1893. Each property owner must lay their portion or have the marshal enforce the duty and penalties.
A list of farmland and timber tracts with acreages from 22 to 265 acres. Locations include Loogootee Epsom Montgomery Alfordsville Plainville and surrounding townships. Prices range from 25 per acre to 000 per tract with notes on timber, cultivation and near roads. Some listings offer cheap terms or trade options.
An advertisement urges readers to relocate to the northwest for land and opportunity. It extols prairie farming in North Dakota Montana and Washington, scenic rail travel with luxurious Pullman cars, and urges those seeking new homes to write to Chas S Fee in St Paul Minnesota. It also notes a public notice by KF W Shaffer Trustee concerning weekly business in Diedison township and Odon.
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