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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1896
Page
4
An advertisement touts Sarsaparilla or Hood’s Pills as the best way to cleanse the system quickly and cheaply. The copy claims ease of use and effectiveness, appealing to readers seeking inexpensive purifying remedies.
The New York Journal reports astonishing bonds between animals and humanlike companions. A lioness from Somaltach protects a bull-terrier youth as if heir, while a Maltese cat shelters an orphaned litter with a terrier family. Other cases include a lioness and hound in Paris and a keeper in Germany fostering mixed litters.
A fragment on extreme cold compares polar winters with temperate climates and recalls a polar expedition in which a candle fails to melt wax. It describes fur garments, harsh winds, and the struggle to stay warm as temperatures plunge. The narrative mixes humor and hardship in icy settings.
In Harwich England a church wedding devolved into a farce as guests and a prankster caused disruption during the vows. Report cites a decorative guest, a curate, and bystanders laughing at the wedding party as the mischief escalated.
A traveling military crematory, drawn by eight horses, is described to dispose of battle casualties. A Polish engineer claims the system would prevent epileptic outbreaks from mass burials in campaigns and a test by military authorities is proposed. The note praises rapid rewards for progress but questions effectiveness.
In a Sunday sermon Dr. Talmage uses Vashti of Esther to illustrate women’s roles and trials. He extols quiet faith and virtuous service, contrasting public display with inner strength, courage, and steadfastness in hardship.
A mosaic of brief items reports a 300 foot long serpent offshore near Athletic City, tax figures in MeKresrout, a would-be assassin wounded Li Tung Ci, and a Berlin aided diagnosis of a Shimonoshi suspect. Art sales in London, a Washington death, Ysaye tour plans, and museum crowds in London are noted along with various scientific and cultural tidbits.
Agricultural hints explain cautious introduction of new fruit varieties and describe practical methods to propagate strawberries from one plant to hundreds as well as to self propagate black raspberries. The piece notes soil and watering needs and quotes S. C. Vaughn from Farm and Fireside.
The Los Angeles Daily Times calls for a cast iron pledge from supervisors candidates to create a comprehensive, long lasting highway system. It lambasts the current road-building method as wasteful, premature, and largely ineffective, urging science and planning to end improvised fixes. It frames good roads as essential to taxpayer fairness and progress.
A Port Jervis report visits Mrs. Jane Hotalen of Hainesville New Jersey age seventy two who credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing her rheumatic sciatica after two years of crippling pain. She details initial skepticism, rapid improvement after a week, and ongoing relief with no adverse effects. The story cites local verification from The Union and notes the pills’ claimed blood nourishing, nerve restoring properties and availability nationwide.
The New York Sun notes a Paris vogue where men use bonbon boxes to occupy their hands at formal gatherings. These gold and silver enameled boxes, sometimes set with gems, serve as decorative accessories and practical relief for awkward hand placement, with Newark production and Chicago displays anticipated as ancestral heirlooms of Louis XIV to Louis XV.
A Texas congressman's aide recounts Culberson prosecuting a hard case for a widely disdained statute. He won conviction and a penitentiary sentence, then secured a gubernatorial pardon. Culberson met the convict at the prison with the pardon, after which no further violations of the law were recorded in Jefferson.
A London correspondent notes a major exodus during Whitsuntide with most trips by road, as rail and omnibus use decline. Whit Monday makes travel scarce for trains and carriages while bicycles surge, easing passenger flow yet frustrating rapid transit firms.
Pearsons Weekly describes salmon canning as a rough method. Salmon are butchered, cleaned, and cut in sheds beside the water, then placed into cans on an inclined plane, soldered, boiled, lacquered, and tested by hammering tins. An average fish yields about 20 cans, with thousands processed daily.
The article explains that meat deemed unfit for food by London inspectors is removed to the condemned meat shed in Smithfield Central Market. It details tanks of slate with 660 gallon capacity, and a process of slashing disfiguring and chemical treatment to discolor and decolorize the meat.
Advertisement note cites a cure claim for nervous disorders with a free $2 trial bottle and treatise. It promotes Dr. Kune of Arch Street Philadelphia and mentions a quotation about idleness vs busyness attributed to public figures.
An old advertisement announces Trail's Catarrh Cure taken internally priced at 73 cents, highlighting its internal use for relief.
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