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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1912
Page
7
Three years ago 42 schools in 24 counties taught domestic science. Now 96 high schools in 50 counties offer the program with equipment costs from 300 to 800 dollars. Classes include food, clothing, home economy and chemistry, stressing practical skill and pride in homemaking as essential work.
A dairy science note traces the Illinois competitive cow test begun after Iowa and Wisconsin efforts. Prizes totaling about 3600 dollars were raised to reward cows producing the most butter fat, with entries opening in 1910 and records to be contested in 1912. The program has drawn 197 cows from 24 herds, spurring testing among breeders and expanding monthly prizes to broadly distribute awards.
The piece reflects on common sense childrearing, noting families lived within their means, avoided impossible standards, and valued routine. It recalls modest routines like weekly baths, single-table meals, and limited social obligations, with women doing what they could and friends easing the load.
A man at Paradise gates tells St Peter his late life was all golf. Peter asks for a ball and, after a critical look, denies entry. The saint cites the first rule of golf to judge him and refuses passage.
A farmer faces a police court over a dog dispute. The defendant jokes about the animal’s age while the magistrate fines him. A friend asks how he fared, the farmer replies middling and notes the tale repeats annually with the same dog.
A humorous note from the Louisville Courier Journal contrasts male and female convention rituals. It recalls men cheering their candidate for an hour while wives kissed theirs for seventy minutes, highlighting playful gender banter.
Advert says thousands die yearly from consumption caused by neglected colds and claims Hamlins Wizard Oil can cure colds by rubbing on the chest to draw out inflammation.
Notable quotation on living well and leaving a lasting impression. Twain urges earnest living so that even the undertaker would be saddened by one's death.
A sallow young man reads a poem to a Chicago editor and is urged to travel and spend time alone with nature. A girl in a church crowd voices a wish to go home as a cleric’s sermon continues. A mother overhears her child’s plea about the preacher’s nonstop talk and the child speaks in a falsetto that he will not stop.
An old advertisement touts Cole Carbolisalve as stopping pain from burns or cuts, healing quickly and preventing scars, priced at 50 cents. It invites free samples by writing to J. W. Cole & Co. in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. The text ends with a note that a ton of coal is easy to make light of.
An unreadable OCR fragment hints at an agricultural business failure with the phrase “failed” and garbled names, suggesting a brief local notice or notice of business trouble.
A librarian recalls a sour spinster who asked for The Recollections of a Liar. The librarian offered The Recollections of a Married Man, and the woman replied That will do, acidly. The anecdote appears in Lippincott's.
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