Reading the Serial Root of Evil and a Senatorial Stotsenburg Bill
The excerpt notes monthly payments of 81.00 and an 8 on 9 reading prompt for the serial story The Root of Evil. It mentions the senate killing the Stotsenburg bill to establish a hospitel for inebriates and reports poet Joaquin Miller, born in Indiana in 1841, dying at his California home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joaquin Miller
Sierras
California
Miller
Warne County
Indiana
How to Be Real Popular in a Local Note
A correspondent explains that popularity starts with listening to others who talk about themselves. The text contrasts a girl with a hole in her stocking with a man who risks fate by a single button. It notes a semi monthly payroll bill passed both houses and pending governor approval, setting paydays between the 1st-10th and 25th- month end.
West Virginia Couple Defeat Odds By Telephone Courtship
A West Virginia young man wooed and won a telephone operator using the local line. The tale highlights the couple billing and calling over the wire, while critics joke about a potential new law by Stotsenberg to criminalize such telephonic romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Stotsenberg
Read Every Ad in the Journal for Big Bargains
The note urges readers to scan weekly ads as bargains exceed the paper’s price. It emphasizes reading every issue to uncover savings that “pay and pay big,” promising valuable returns if readers act on the deals.
Journal expands to eight pages with home print
The Journal increases circulation over two weeks and is now eight pages all printed in house. Subscribers receive a chance to get a pair of patent spring steel shears with each renewal, while supplies last.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiell
Odox Journal Aims to Grow in Odex Region
Advertisement columni appears to seek reader support to expand and improve the Odox Journal for Oden and surrounding area. The plea emphasizes a bigger, better newspaper presence and closer community engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oden and Vicinity
Odox Journal
Bethany meeting attendees and local social visits
Quarterly meeting at Bethany drew several locals this weekend. Visits included Kathryn Whitaker Lens Williams Worthington and Ward Barter with Abe Hasler family, Merle Dobbs with Inez Jamison, and Lafe Clarke Elnora with Nell Henderson. The Lester sisters of Bloomfield stopped by Friday, Clyde Stone hosted guests Saturday, James Graham welcomed a newborn boy, Florence Richardson visited Ben Ogden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn Whitaker
Lens Williams
Worthington and
Ward Barter
Mrs
Abe Hasler
Local Visitors and Sunday Calls From Odon and Area
Wm Carpenter of Odon visited Sunday. Chas Haverstock and family visited with Mrs Haverstock’s parents Mr and Mrs Bad Brock. Chas Kirk and family also called on the B r ocks. Miss Sarah Holt and Miss Hazel Taylor shared Sunday visits. Mrs Sarah Taylor and Mrs James Herron spent Monday with Mrs Teletha Osborn. Arthur Phipps of Odon was in the vicinity Monday. Dannie Herron spent Sunday afternoon near Farien. Ivan and Ray Connell visited cousin Dean Phipps of Farlen. James Herron returned Monday from a few days with daughter Mrs Mary Howard and family of San-.
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Chas. Haverstock
Mrs. Haverstock
Mrs
Bad Brock
Chas. Kirk
Sarah Taylor
James Herron
Teletha Osborn
Ivan and
Ray Connell
Dean Phipps
Farlen
James Herror
Mary Howard
San
American tourist taxed in Baden Baden and Wiesbaden
An American tourist in European resorts is portrayed as careless with money. Baden Baden and Wiesbaden impose a tourist tax to fund hospitality and new hotels and restaurants. The piece suggests hotels and eateries target spending visitors for revenue.
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Baden Baden
Wiesbades
Wiesbaden
Gosens
Warning to Automebillete and a cryptic image note
A cryptic warning message targets Automebillete paired with a note about an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. The fragment mentions an accompanying picture of a skull.
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Hy & Ie
Sugar beet cultivation urged to uplift American farming
Dr Harvey W Wiley asserts farming is 50 years behind Europe and old methods ruin yields. He promotes intensive cultivation of sugar beets as a core plan to improve profitability, soil health, and crop rotation for a stronger U S agriculture.
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Dr. Wiley
America
Europe
Harvey W. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
United States
Social notes from Bellview with visits and gatherings
Pearl Padgett spent Monday night with cousin Viola Fielder. A dinner at John Eads home honored Mabel Willard bound for Iowa. Viola Fielder visited Maude and Iona Ritter. Mabel Willard stayed with Viola Fielder Saturday night. Maude Killion visited Susie Wilson Tuesday. John Bratton and wife of Elnora visited James Ritter and Hamily. Edgar Masters and wife visited Roy McMillion and wife. Zans Ritter spent Sunday with Iva Gourtney Contney and Otus with Jennie Lucas. Mrs Thom and Mrs Willard spent Monday with Rev Todd and wife.
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Pearl Padgett
Viola Fielder
John Bratton
Elnora
James
Ritter
Hamily
Thom
Willard
Rev
Todd
Local Visits Highlight Week in Odon and Nearby Areas
Rafus Mowery of Baile spent Monday with his grandparents Leonard Mowery and wife Cecil Aishe west of Odon en route to R D Meeks to move a building. Grant Stoes was in town Saturday and Sunday for church at Bethel near WW D Perry of Topeka Kan visited J P Taylor. Arch Cunningham of Odon spent one day last week with J P Taylor.
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Rafus Mowery
Baile
Leonard Mowery
Cecil Aishe
Odon
R. D. Meek's
Grant Stoes
Topeka, Kan
Po ‘Taylor
Arch Cunningham of
J: P_ Taylor
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Co-operative Telephone
Ftier
Co-operative
Jxo
B. Storrs
Senate
Stotsenburg
Scotland
Bethany
Mise Merle Dobbs
Miss Inez Jamison
Lafe Clarke
Nell Henderson
Clyde Stone
Mary, Ellen, Laura
Ruth Lester
Near
Bloomfield
Sam McElroy
James Graham
Charles Jamison
Florence Richardson
Ben Ogden
Bunkum
Wm. Carpenter
Chas Kirk
Alva
Callahan and Family Sunday
Sarah Holt
Hazel Taylor
Eva Connell
May Buile
Arthur Phipps
Dannie Herron
Farien
Eas
Ane
Percales
Darkley
Kokomo
A.jolliff & CO
Bellview
John Eads
Mabel Willard
Iowa
Maude
Iona Ritter
Maude Killion
Susie Wilson
Edgar Masters
Roy
McMillion
Zans Ritter
Iva Gourtney
Verna .Contney
Otus
Jennie’ ‘Lucas
Mra Walael
Minorcas
W. R. Correll
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