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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
4
A detailed discussion traces English and Scottish kingly bans on football, parallels with U S land and timber laws, and debates on timber reserves. It notes public protests, royal proclamations, and the evolving view of sports and resource management across centuries.
Rival Brooklyn Navy Yard crews and Newport News clash over two government and private battleships. Connecticut leads in completion at 91.56 percent versus Louisiana at 89.25 percent as launch and christening dates loom.
A London gossip column recounts Queen Alexandra and the Duchess of Roxburgh as the era’s most costly perfume patrons. It cites royal retrenchment, a Windsor lavender scent, and a pastry firm losing royal orders while displaying arms. A Roman trunk robbery involving the Duchess of Areas is also mentioned.
The article recalls King James II’s view of sport and his opposition to football as rough and injurious to heirs. It notes his preference for archery and cautions about football drawing soldiers from archery. A 1457 Scottish act condemns football and golf for distracting the husky class from learning to fight.
A report claims a 10 000 year old human footprint in a Pennsylvania colliery marks a record in antiquity. The piece discusses broader questions of human age, glacial-era happenings 240 000 years ago, and early humans in Europe amid mammoths and elephants.
In Chicago News chatter, Cholly Goodfellow is praised as very popular in town as residents joke he draws many well wishers every month with friendly back slaps, highlighting his sociable reputation.
In India the contribution basket is passed around in Hir temples by an elephant. The behavior highlights traditional ritual practices where elephants participate in daily temple duties and offerings.
Chestnuts resemble potatoes in cooking methods such as boiling baking or roasting. They contain only 33 percent water versus 76 percent in potatoes and exceed potatoes in nutritive ingredients. Cultivation of chestnut trees here remains neglected, offering a promising area for agriculture and forestry.
A writer notes that even when a mummy is sealed hermetically its odor persists. He argues embalming did not prevent scent over millennia and that odors remain a mystery to embalmers as they were at the time of burial.
The hen's eggs produced in this country last year would fill 3,127,000 crates of 300 eggs each. It would require 167,818 refrigerator cars to transport this crop, and those cars would form a train about 900 miles long.
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