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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1914
Page
4
M F Smalls and others visited Linton Terre Haute Bicknell and Burns City on Monday. Trades include a line of Oover Plows at Keck and Daughery. Rexall Drug promotes Sal-Tone worm destroyer and stock tonic. Rev McCoy and Danner and Cooper noted among regional movements.
A mixed page of small ads and local notices includes hay and poultry sales by J B Stotts and E O Love, White Rock hens and a cockerel, and a large 20 lb Sal Tone bucket advertised at 125. It notes moves and visits among residents including Rose Flint, Ed Hindman, Linton travelers, and the Pershing family. Also mentions incubator and brooder sales from Keck Caughey and Rexall Crow Store stock tonic.
Miss Mollie Neeremer of Odicu visited her sister Mrs James Burris last week. James Dyal visits his parents Mr and Mrs Art Dyal. Van Buren township teachers held their fifth institute in the school building last Saturday. For rent Dan Rheabottom property east of Odon see P M Laughlin. Eggs from prize winning White Wavyandottes sold by pen titles with prices per dozen.
Local items show visiting relatives from Massillon and Indianapolis, road notes, and various for sale notices. Mentions include Mrs. James Burris and son Menneth visiting W R Neeremen, Misses Myers and Hayes visiting Indianapolis, and multiple for sale poultry and eggs from White Feather Poultry Farm and Pavine Rankin. Also notes attendance at a revival and a trip to Washington.
The piece surveys modern figures and events: Charles Tellier’s death in a shabby Paris room, Fabre the poet, Marconi and Diesel underlines, Mme Curie’s mistreatment, and national rewards and neglect. It notes the world’s uneven regard and the cost of genius amid poverty and prestige.
A diplomat notes President Whaon's unfailing sangfroid as he jokes about imitating a grave digger. The tale involves a midnight cemetery trench prank on a grave digger who slips into a grave, only to be confronted by a sheeted mock spirit. Nearby, a line about donkeys poultry food at Bly on the corner appears.
Miss Pearl Seneff traveled to Indianapolis to attend a millinery event. The visit highlighted upcoming fashion shows and local shopping opportunities.
The text describes using egg white as a soothing dressing for burns and scalds, likening it to a varnish and cooling agent. It also suggests beaten eggs with oil for dysentery, forming a protective coating in the stomach and intestines. It recommends up to three eggs daily as a gentle treatment within a light diet and rest.
A physiologist warns that salt, including gray grasses and refined white salt, carries many bacterial colonies per gram. He explains gray salt is mud-graded and refined salt carries 2,090 to 3,000 colonies per gram, despite refining, with suggestions to refine further to be germ-free.
A narrator recalls giving a misfitting gift when a friend’s parents left for California on their anniversary. She bought a copy of Travers with a Deekey for the mother, learned they misunderstood, but the father replied with a humorous note of appreciation and forgiveness.
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