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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1891
Page
4
Poem celebrates national birthdays and unity across the states. It envisions bells and fireworks, children honoring the country, and citizens singing from ocean to ocean in a patriotic tribute to the land’s founding.
Edwin visits Broomville for Independence Day and clashes with country ways. His mare Bess wins a front position in the parade then bolts, sending Edwin sprawling and losing his hat and shoe. Uncle Life argues for duty, while Bess lies exhausted and dies in the heat. Edwin vows to hate the Fourth of July.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes a five year old scene in a Montana mining town where two men duel after drawing pistols. The crowd falls silent as a judge like dealer calls for fair play, the two fire, both die, and the dealer resumes his poker with a silver box, saying Game, gentlemen.
The crown is described as made of diamonds rubies sapphires pearls and emeralds set in silver and gold bands. It weighs thirty nine ounces and five pennyweights troy and contains 3452 diamonds 275 pearls 13 emeralds 17 sapphires and rubies.
The piece explains how propeller screws became smaller after an accident on Lake Erie showed a large blade broke and the ship sped unexpectedly fast. Engineers then found small propellers were more efficient, shaping modern propulsion and disproving the belief that bigger equals faster.
Historical clipping advertises German Syrup for asthma and coughs, promoting Boschee's German Syrup as life saving with a testimonial from C B Stickney of Picton Ontario. Includes notes on summer resorts in Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota South Dakota and Michigan via Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line and assorted farm equipment ads.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a universal cure for blood skin and scalp diseases with a unique pay-only-if-benefit offer. It claims cleansing purifying blood and diagnosing conditions from blotches to scrofula, sold by druggists with a Buffalo New York address for the World’s Dispensary Medical Association.
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