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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1906
Page
4
Representative D. Bowersock of Kansas condemns indiscriminate laws and urges restraint on statutes. He warns against corporate greed and special privileges, arguing that honesty and practical business realities cannot be created by law alone.
A vivid look at the railway post office on wheels. Clerks sort and distribute mail at high speed aboard a Pullman style car, where every sack is labeled for the next stop. The system aims for near flawless accuracy with minimal errors.
The piece cites The New York Times on rising US sugar consumption and domestic production lag, noting imports grew from 1.63 million to 2.11 million tons over 1885–1905 while home output barely kept pace. It then mocks bees as industrious yet imprudent, contrasting their toil with human greed and winter shortages.
The data shows beet sugar rising from 4.3 percent in 1840 to 14.3 percent in 1850 and 63.7 percent in 1890, with beets reaching a peak near 77.7 percent by 1900 in global sugar production. Per person consumption in 1904 averaged about 75 pounds despite advances in beet processing.
A couple moves into a house and finds rubbish left behind. The woman points to three “horrid” ashes in the yard while the husband jokes about reverence, hinting at a ghostly or eerie source behind the ashes.
Oriental dock warehouseman Atay Suerat fought a two foot long rat weighing nearly seven pounds. After a twenty minute battle the creature was slain. The rodent, likely a South American species, may have arrived aboard a ship with other cargo.
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