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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1901
Page
2
Odon, Indiana publication details its postal status and subscription prices. The notice lists price options including one year for $1.50 and shorter terms of six months and three months, reflecting standard classified information for readers.
The article presents Odon as a growing city of about 1500 inhabitants on the Southern Indian Railroad, twenty miles northeast of Washington, with electric lights, solid businesses, three churches, a six room brick school, several manufactories, coal mines nearby, a Normal School, and a thriving agricultural region surrounding Tay County.
The article notes the Alabama constitutional convention includes Democrats and warns any non Democrat member would reflect oversight. It highlights a suffrage proposal that restricts voters by poll tax age limits education required after 1903 and twelve months active work, plus a long disqualification list. It argues suffrage is a privilege for the intelligent and thrifty and praises stricter standards. The piece also reviews The Designer magazine praising August issue for home life features and warm weather styles.
The Cosmopolitan for July offers a solution in a feature on a houseboat titled The Modern Palace. The piece argues houseboats provide a cheap and comfortable vacation and notes growing interest among enthusiasts.
Cyrus C. Adams outlines exploration tasks for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions being organized or outfitted for discovery as described in the Review of Reviews July issue.
The Jamestown site bears a ruined tower and decayed gravestones with foundations showing, as modern notes recall the English foothold in the New World and the 1676 burning memory. July Ladies' Home Journal.
John B. Alden, publisher, offers to mail postpaid editions to readers of the Don Journal for 12 cents if they order at once and mention the paper. He is known for cheap book publishing and a 25 cent edition. Address 442 Pearl St New York.
The article notes Department of Agriculture experiments aiming to double corn yield without extra labor or expense through cross breeding. Farmers are urged to select seeds carefully as the theory is not yet public. It also mentions Uncle Sam's fiscal year, a Lincoln grave monument, and Indiana rail right of way rulings.
A notice announces a meeting at the Opera House on Spring Street next Monday evening July 8 at 8 o clock to organize the Odon Oil Co. Shareholders are urged to attend as most stock will be sold beforehand and votes will decide drilling locations near the west end stock well. Shares cost 25 dollars with options to pool funds.
During a Marseilles performance Sarah Bernhardt faced an uproar when one of six Turkish escorts failed to appear. The audience booed as she entered with five escorts, and a spectator’s protest prompted her to ask for the reason behind the diversion.
General Francis Vinton Greene led the seventy first regiment at Camp Bic? near Hempstead New York. An old man asked for leave for Private Blank to visit a dying mother. Greene refused saying the rules bind all. his own father died before the war ended and he could not visit him.
Mr E Walter Maunde recounts an instructive story to children at the Society of Arts. A student in an astronomy lecture forgot the composition of the corona, provoking the professor to exclaim about the calamity of one who knew the answer but forgot it.
The jury debated all ballots from seven to five in favor of conviction to six six ties. Names of jurors on both sides are listed amid commentary on biased Washington coverage. A $1000 bond for Harley Lamb was accepted, and a neighbor recounts a curing cholera remedy.
A scanned page offers numerous patent medicine claims and household tips. It promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, Foleys Kidney Cure, Kodul Dyspepsia Cure, DeWitt s Witch Hazel, and One Minute Cough Cure, with testimonials and editorials on health topics and food preparation.
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered letters and phrases including stray names and words. Context unclear. no coherent event or identity fully readable.
An old health note advises that rich meals and constipation strain digestion causing heartburn. It recommends thorough chewing and spacing meals with glypes between them, and to take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets when fullness appears after eating to prevent heartburn. For sale by Z. Webster.
A female author promotes Balm of Figs as a private at home remedy for women’s health issues. The piece argues half the world suffers unseen and urges women to avoid embarrassing exams by using a self administered treatment developed after years of study.
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