DGN Journal Fragments Note Local Political Dream
Odon Indiana weekly paper notes its post office entry and subscription rates. The item references Walsh troubled by not landing 288 votes in November.
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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1903
Page
2
Odon Indiana weekly paper notes its post office entry and subscription rates. The item references Walsh troubled by not landing 288 votes in November.
The passage notes John Walsh recalling heavy rain the day after the November election and suggests John Welsh may secure the 1904 representative nomination. It also mentions Grover’s three presidential nominations.
A miscellany of Indiana items reports a bill to bar consumptives from marriage, a $2 million potato harvest claim, farm wage data, a Knox county coal haul fine, oil inspector changes, rail and riverbank issues, a bank conversion plan, a major explosion with losses, arrests over mule theft, charitable flour gifts, horse accident, rural mail drivers, and a Greens county poll tax receipt vote reform push.
Juries drawn for the next term include Grand Jury members John S Burris Moses Allen Wm M Young F M Ferguson John Walty Jr Patrick Sinnott and others from Barr Washington Harrison Elmore Bogard and Elmore. Petit Jury members include John A Hunter John Barr Owen Cavanaugh Willis H Black Lewis M Mullen Van Baren Jaz Hannah Elmore John Eads Elmore and A J Wilson.
In a vivid first person scene Mary Ann, a mulatto mother, fantasizes grand names for her children and a life of luxury. She recalls choosing boy names Roland Rupert Aubrey and girl names Claudia Lucille Rosa Lind Geraldine while imagining wealth, travel, and elegant manners. The tale shifts to a Christmas memory where, with 45 cents, she holds a magical imagined royal Christmas feast with national and royal figures sending gifts and praise to her family.
The table lists rates of taxation for townships towns and cities including Washington city Veale Reeve Harrison Montgomery Cannerburg Barr Van Buren Odon Madison ElNora Elmore Steele Bogard and more. It notes state tax 2945 cents county 441 cents and total county state levy 74 cents.
A historical note describes a meat preservation recipe praised as excellent and sugar curing. For two hogs of 200 pounds each gross it specifies 4 quarts salt 2 pounds sugar 3 ounces caltpeter 3 ounces capsicum 1 pound black pepper mixed in boiling water and rubbed on the meat.
A farmer wrote verse to a railroad claim agent after his razorback was killed by a train. The company reply declined payment with a poetic twist, noting the hog’s death occurred on the line and joking that no check would be sent. The note ends urging readers to trade with Odou Journal advertisers.
The reader asks in the paper columns if anyone using Green's August Flower for indigestion and liver troubles has not been cured. The note lists symptoms such as sour stomach fermentation and nervous dyspepsia and alleges long sales of the medicine.
Uncertain croup and grippe relief advertise One Minute Cough Cure from W L Stoy and Chamberlain Congo Remedy used to save a child during a choking attack. Testimonials claim rapid breathing relief and life saving effects. sellers include A E Steere Goodwin S D and Z Webster.
A new machine cuts pastes and hangs wallpaper, hailed as a major invention. Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption is praised as a universal remedy for lung ailments and bronchitis, with testimonials of broad use and high reliability. Trial bottles offered by Z Webster.
The ad touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve to treat pins from colonial wounds burns scalds sore feet and stiff joints, claims it cures piles, and promotes its 25-cent price at Webster Drug. It also mentions a "Little Early Risers" patent medicine and cites a San Antonio, Texas, user testimonial.
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