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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1896
Page
8
The peanut long a country fair favorite is now praised by doctors for its high albumen content and usefulness in soups purees and mush. Suggestions include roasted peanuts in duck stuffing mayonnaise spread on bread milk with peanuts soup from boiling and mashing and peanut doughs baked in Chinese dumplings with potential many more home recipes.
Fragmentary text references beta crops and South Dakota timing, with garbled names and places. Likely OCR noise, no coherent event or individuals clearly identifiable.
A jumble of quack cures and exhortations fills the page, naming products like Burns nerve restorers and St Jacobs Oil, alongside generic advice and scattered street names. Prominent mentions include Detroit Free Press and Indianapolis Journal style bluster, with vague claims and fragmented testimonials.
The sermon narrates a queen in disguise and a divine probing of deceit. It argues royalty can hide in poverty and urges vigilance against impostors while praising providence and a loving God who arranges every event for good. The speaker extols the timeless comfort of divine care.
Lieut Emile Duboc recounts a tale from French shipbuilding where a turret failed during trials before a committee. A dropped quid of tobacco clogged a small pipe, delaying the new battleship’s turret operation until cleared, prompting a switch to wired propulsion where feasible.
A female attorney denounces the prosecution as groundless and wins a motion to discharge her client. The judge confirms the ruling as she asserts her right to have the last word. The piece also notes the number of consulates and salary changes under new rules, and remarks on reduced consul general positions and other scattered items.
Jorman Hutchinsons, 15, son of farmer David Hutchinson near Windfall, lost his left hand in a hunting accident. Columbus Handle Co faces pressure from a steel trust attempt to force a new factory, while ground was broken but stalled. Various postmasters named. stock buyer Geo Haun cleared of embezzlement. horse sale in Cambridge City planned. Mrs. Evizaneti Taylor, 58, of Richmond finished a 4500-piece quilt for McKinley. Cuban insurgent enlistment rumors circulate in Elwood and surrounding counties. Irreconcilable deaths and legal actions appear across many towns including Waterloo, Richmond, Lafayette, and Vincennes with incidents of crime, labor strikes, and industry development. Municipal corruption debates arise in Bluffton over pool hall licenses.
Chicago clinic tale shows a nervy patient who endures tooth extraction without a sound. The student operator, surprised by the grafted tooth, discovers the tooth pulled was not hers and the patient leaves without payment. A second item notes a paper-based match invention aimed at cheaper, smokeless flames for export.
Mr Charles Townsend daily visits the park canal to feed ducks with bread or corn from his pocket. One morning he lacks bread and tosses a sixpence to the ducks, which one gullibly swallows as Nug gets.
Advertisement for Hull's Catarrh Cure promising a reward for any wife cured of catarrh. Promoters include F J Cheney and associates from Toledo Ohio with testimonials from local wholesalers. Claims relate to internal treatment and blood mucous surface action. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and a court brief dialogue about payment timing.
An article extols the North Western Limited daily at 6 30 p m from Chicago via the Chicago and North Western Ry. The superbly appointed train offers compartment sleeping cars buffet smoking and library cars standard sleeping cars dining cars and ladies coaches with full luxury for passenger comfort. Tickets available through Chicago area agents and connecting lines.
The piece extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for rheumatic and malarial tendencies and kidney inactivity. It claims relief for stomach liver and bowel disorders and nervousness in the elderly, noting the potion’s supposed benediction. It also includes a humorous aside about guessing a woman's age and a brief wartime reference.
The text extols various remedies and quack claims, praising syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative for children and recommending products like St Jacobs Oil and Pike's Toothache Drops. It cites generic aphorisms and author names, reflecting a promotional period style.
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