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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1902
Page
3
A new stock of pure drugs, chemicals and proprietary remedies is received weekly at Dearman’s pharmacy. Nothing deteriorates from age as items are kept fresh warm and dust free. Physicians’ prescriptions are compounded accurately and conscientiously. Hotel Building.
Local notes show next Friday marked as Valentine day and a sale at W Lacy’s with discounts on household and farm items. Several names visit, sales and auctions planned, plus announcements for meetings and events across Daviess County.
Tuesday evening Er Winklepleck and Jas Feller were jailed in Washington for burglarizing B D Smiley s store and the float mill last week. Winklepleck is seventeen in April and Feller eighteen in April. Police recovered the stolen property and the pair implicated each other as the trial nears.
Work resumed on the oil well with a plan for day and night crews to push ahead. State Geologist Blatchley estimates the well must reach about 700 feet deeper to hit Trenton rock. Local managers intend to test the field thoroughly, believing oil or gas will be found in paying quantities upon reaching Trenton rock.
A jumble of short notices lists turkeys for sale with toms and hogs, bragging of size and breed, and a faded local address in Overton Indiana. Miscellaneous items include unpaid items, prices on goods, a postponed masquerade, and a brief quotation about bore definitions.
Local notes report Grant Alishouse from Martin County and Harve Pershing from Odon visiting Farlen this week. Preaching schedule set for Mt Olive with services Saturday and Sunday. Visitors include Pat O Donlad from Leogootee and George Henderson from Odeon on business.
John He Myers and Edith Evans wed with Rev. Joseph Adams officiating at the bride’s parents’ home near Eaglesville. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jas Evans, is popular. the groom, a merchant in Eaglesville, plans to reside in Eaglesville.
Tomorrow at 2 30 p m the Christian Endeavor presents a Pathway of Peace program. Includes prayers scripture John 14 2541 songs juniors jewels solos talks by Eld Buchanan and Duster Williams and Grant Callahan with Miss Ada Callahan as leader. After meeting an invoice sale offers goods at bargain prices.
The notice states the sale of an interest in a store to C A Pickett. It references Hayes and Pick and includes garbled phrases likely indicating the new partnership or ownership changes.
Writs M. ArxMan announces as a Republican candidate for auditor of Daviess County Indiana subject to the primary election. Thomas Nucert announces Robert S. Woop as a Republican candidate for recorder.
The excerpt shows a dialog between a wife and husband about deception and trust. It mentions a stolen pocketbook three times in a fortnight while shopping and a joke about the thieves taking nothing. The text references Boston Tran script Wet Shelping Pocketbook Crimsonbenk and Yookers Stateazman.
A reader recalls her husband’s insistence on no gifts before Christmas. She followed his cue one year, but the result nearly put him in bed. The exchange underscores the tension between saving money and unexpected medical costs.
A fragment from Stork Weekly notes a weary sense of romance where a man enjoys evenings with whomever pleases and bears the burden of entertaining others. The tone hints at social expectations of courtship and gender roles in a compact metropolitan vignette.
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