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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1906
Page
6
The article discusses immigrant societies aiding newcomers with housing schools and legal help. It also promotes sewing and doll clothes patterns with specific no 1578 no 1608 no 1715 and no 1710 offerings and prices through Fads and Fancies at 290 Broadway New York City.
Prof Mattucci of the Vesuvius observatory dined at the Royal hotel in Naples as waves slammed the embankment. A Neapolitan widow asks her dead husband if heaven exists in the afterlife and he replies that he is not in heaven, revealing a wry spiritualist joke.
The Sea of Galilee or Lake Gennesaret in Palestine, famed for Christ's miracles, has been profaned by the appearance of a modern steamer offering passenger trips to nearby villages.
The article compares fortunes built from mining and natural resources to rail wealth, citing figures like Clark Rhodes Rockefeller and Carnegie. It extols the South as a vast storehouse of coal iron ore oil sulphur phosphate cement materials and copper, promising immense future wealth from mineral riches.
In Boomopolis the Oriental Cat Company posts a bold offer paying 50 cents per cat delivered to the old skating rink building Main and Franklin. The anonymous campaign, first seen on billboards and in dailies, spurs curiosity and speculation about motives and identity of the advertiser.
An advertisement extols the Multiphone a six foot tall mechanical music device with twenty four records viewable inside a glass case. It claims high earnings for investors with a $1.25 share price and 6 percent annual dividends, promising fast price rises and no salaries, urging quick action to buy limited stock.
In Boomopolis a scheme turns cats into coin as Stumpy builds an empire at the Oriental Cat Company. Citizens flood the rink office with felines, aiming to sell them for profits, while later a rat plague provokes a mass cat demand before the company exits town with its proceeds.
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