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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1909
Page
7
The piece celebrates Christmas wishes from Charles Dickens and Mme Merri, urging acts of kindness toward others including the postman. It recalls a sobering scene of a grieving woman shopping for others and details a festive holiday meal with fruits, fried oysters, and assorted treats arranged with holiday decor.
A generous hostess plans a Christmas party for 50 children from an institution. A candy brick chimney will hide Santa who emerges and distributes bricks filled with candy and nuts. Children will draw a wiggle Santa with pencils and dots, then enjoy ice cream and cake. A prize box will honor the best wiggle Santa.
Long sashes are worn with coat suits. Fur neckpieces are very wide and muffs are huge. Some new silk stockings have lace insteps. Red is a brilliant exception to the rule of dull hues.
Parents can furnish playrooms with denim screens decorated by homespun pictures of animals and flowers. Simple shapes, pasted or painted images, and white muss lines create cheerful, affordable nursery decor that enhances children’s environment and imagination.
The essay extols Central Canada lands for grain farming with a Regina area case. James Bailey bought 640 acres near Grand Coulee, cropped 600 acres wheat and 40 oats, produced 19 875 bushels wheat and 4750 oats, and netted 17550 from the crop plus 10880 increase in land value, selling chances at 35 an acre.
In southern Tunis a salt marsh desert called the Shott Jerid is feared by Arabs for wrecks of caravans. French novelist Myriam Harry crosses the salt crusted morass in a small automobile, achieving a first.
A recipe alleges to cure colds by mixing whiskey glycerine and concentrated pine compound, shaken before use and given every four hours as a tea spoonful to tablespoonful. It advises obtaining ingredients from a druggist or wholesale house and notes the pine product comes in half ounce air tight bottles labeled Concentrated. Public commentary includes a joke about a hat and a queen's appearance in a millinery joke.
Western medical men claim a whiskey mix is an absolute preventive and quick cure for bad colds and la grippe. To prepare, add one ounce compound balmwort and two ounces glycerine to a half pint of whiskey. Dose a tablespoonful three to six times daily.
Landlady and tenants discuss remedies for rheumatism neuralgia and constipation. Hamlins Wizard Oil is claimed to drive away ailments quickly while Dr. Pierce's Pellets are advertised as a thorough cure. The speaker imagines heaven as a place with no neighbors.
An old reliable coin remedy, ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM, is shown as common in drug stores and homes. It is sold by druggists in 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles with the slogan We help ourselves when we help others. -W. J. Bryan.
The Oregon Journal recalls a worn rocker on the floor its frayed back evoking memories of sorrow. The narrator describes milkman disturbances and shoe removal to dodge publicity then trips on the chair spreading gloom like swarming flies over the home memories linger.
Cautionary note urging mothers to inspect Castoria bottles for the correct signature of HAPS and to ensure the product has been trusted for over 30 years. Reassures it is the kind they have always bought for infants and children.
The quotation frames a riddle about Dollardy selling his hotel for money and now occupying a head waiter role. It contrasts married women dying of heartbreak with old bachelors who have long buried hearts. It closes with a dealer reference to a Lewis' Single Binder cigar and a Kingsley remark on heroic souls in historic times.
A mother warns her precocious daughter during a social call. The discussion escalates into a witty exchange about discipline and self restraint. The page also contains an advertisement offering to buy hides furs and pelts from McMillan Fur and Wool Co. in St. Louis.
An old advertisement promotes Perry Davis Painkiller as the best relief for sideaches backaches and stitches. It urges customers to buy the large bottle at drugstores noting prices of 24c 35c and 50c.
The quote cautions that facing poverty is preferable to imprisonment for debt. A promotional line touts Lewis' Single Binder cigars for their rich mellow quality, followed by a remark that incurring debt is one thing and escaping it another.
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