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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
4
A forthright plea explains a mail order store building a grand skyscraper with bricks bought by donations from towns like ours. The piece notes many strangers contribute while a firm from a small city store idea funds the project.
The Zenith ascent in 1875 reached about 28 000 feet with aeronauts Sivel Croce Spinelli and Tissandier. A sudden descent left Sivel and Croce dead and Tissandier surviving, recalling the harrowing account in Tissandier’s words and notes from the crash site near Paxis, 155 miles from Paris.
A London Standard piece surveys unusual artillery across history. Leather and wood cannons date to Henry VII and Parisian alarms of 1792. Gold and terracotta ordnance appear in India and Mexico with massive calibers and dramatic effects.
Outing Magazine narrative by Robert Dunn portrays a chaotic sulfurous landscape with steam and gases, jagged crevices, and hostile heat. The author notes shifting hues from sulfur mosaics and compares the scene to a furnace, contrasting subarctic winds with the infernal landscape.
The brain typically stops growing by fifty and may shrink after sixty. Canon MacColl noted Gladstone's head outgrew hats, even during the Midlothian campaign near seventy, with MacColl suggesting this continual growth contributed to his perpetual youth.
A fragmentary quote from the Atlanta Constitution contrasts simple false dichotomy with dynamic bold rhetoric. It notes that declaring opposites can mislead audiences when a speaker thunders and pounds a table with both fists.
A fragment from the Chicago News reports a mother asking her invalid son Elmer about an orange given by Mrs Neighbors yesterday. The boy explains he found the fruit too sour for her and ate it after adding sugar.
A brief, somber line reflects on joys remembered and losses endured. The quoted verse hints at arrows of fiction causing personal hurt, attributed to Mackenzie.
A St Nicholas note explains a hardy winter butterfly group the angle wings or vanesids that survive winter as chrysalis or adult butterflies. They awaken during warm spells sunning near hibernation and may flutter in mild weather, defying the season’s cold.
Cy Warman notes the approximate danger faced by Canadian Mounted Police in the Northwest. He states officers must avoid firing first and risk death, yet many face gunfire, with successful outcomes rare and political support backing lawmen from Dominion to empire.
A New York lawyer recalls a West railway case where a section hand was killed by an express train. The widow sues, and a principal witness swears the whistle blew after the man passed. The exchange questions why the engineer would whistle after the fatal strike.
A timetable noting arrivals at 9:22 and 8:38 with multiple stops including Jasonville Linton Beehunter Elnora Odon and Bedford, listing Beehunter and Elnora as origin or transfer points with noted times on the route.
Van Buren township notice states Hiram Sima will be in his office at the Eaglesville post office on the 25th Saturday of each week to conduct business as trustee.
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