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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1896
Page
4
Pennsylvania farmers urged to join a promotional spree with Luther of East Troy claiming high yields and gold prize. The Missive promises a free Salter seed catalogue and grain packs for sending a form. The ad also extols self control and humility as virtue.
An advertisement claims deafness, caused by inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining, cannot be healed by local applications. It offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness case cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure and promotes Teali's Family Pills at 25 cents. includes a stray conversational fragment about cigarette ash.
Travel advertisement for Burlington Route excursions to California with through cars from Chicago via Denver and Salt Lake. Describes car features and special agent in charge, mentions pamphlet requests to Excursion Manager WY A Grady, Chicago. Also includes rail promo for Florida Limited and a dated Detroit Tribune quotation and testimonials.
A London debate calls flogging of girls in elementary schools barbaric and asks the home secretary to reject such measures. The piece recalls historical punishment and argues society should not revert to past corporal discipline.
The article outlines Tennessee’s centennial goals for 1920s celebration. It emphasizes pride in state history and showcases of industries such as marble, iron, zinc, tobacco, crops, horse breeding, hardwoods, and phosphate near the capital area. It also notes plans to attract foreign interest and display of notable inventions and arts.
The Santa Fe Route offers homeseekers excursions from various principal points in Illinois Missouri Oklahoma Texas. Fare for round trips with liberal time for stopovers, midwinter trips advertised with descriptive literature of the Great West. Also notes medical tonics and farm land information amid mixed advertisements and local notices.
A Sunday sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage urges believers to loudly proclaim divine grace. He contrasts reticence on religion with openness about political issues and stresses personal testimony as the start of a worldwide revival. He recounts varied conversion stories and praises frank, everyday faith expressed in prayer meetings.
Narrative extols prayer as transformative, recounting William Lamphier’s Fulton Street gathering and its global impact. It urges public gratitude toward mentors, pastors, and parents, and urges believers to testify to answered prayers and uplift others through encouragement and acknowledgment.
Subsoil plowing loosens the subsoil without surface exposure and helps conserve moisture in areas with limited rainfall. It is beneficial only if the subsoil is hard and dry, not if loose or very wet. Fall subsoiling allows winter and spring rains to soak in. spring subsoiling can harm crops when the subsoil is extremely dry.
A fragmented instructional note describes three sketches illustrating wound stages from sawing a large branch. It warns that improper cover leaves exposed wood to sun and wind, with Fig 1 showing the fresh wound and Fig 2 revealing weathering cracks that let water in during rain.
A trusted advertisement promotes Syrup of Figs as a soothing laxative that cleanses the system, aids kidneys, liver and bowels, and dispels fevers and headaches. It touts acceptance by the medical profession, absence of objectionable substances, and satisfaction of millions. Sold by druggists in 50c and 1 packages, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
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