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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
8
A former call to business growth arguing long range advertising replaces personal trust. The piece likens Japan’s modernization and cannons to marketing, urging merchants to advertise to defend and expand their market, noting growing towns and rising competition.
Local residents and visitors list daily activities and small ads. Items include farm goods and fuel for sale, family visits by Russel Ward, James Borders, Dwigit and Don Hayes, and various trips to Indianapolis Terre Haute and Elnora. Other notices mention Rexall products Paris Green London Purple and suppliers A Jolliff and R C R L Red eggs.
Local notes list Rexall Store sales of Peafowl Veneer products and Cholerine for poultry. It records visits by Miss Brodie York of Indiana polis, Minnie Harman teaching in Fairbury, Dr. Ben O'Dell visiting Farmersburg, and multiple trips to Vincennes and Indianapolis. It also recounts a staged film production and a short fiction scene, plus a historical note on ancient warfare gases.
Rockport rancher J C Herring reports large drifts of driftwood from Guadalupe and Texas rivers bring rattlesnakes to bays and islands when high water washes them ashore. Snakes cling to rafts as they drift downstream and into bays. he has killed several. He notes jackrabbits have multiplied in the area.
A young Japanese girl, driven by poverty after her father failed at the stock exchange, jumped from a cliff on the Isle of Enoshima. A giant tree’s branches caught her, suspending her over the sea. A fisherman heard her cries 17 hours later and rescued her, seriously but not fatally hurt.
An inconsequential man says he gave his wife a dog. She named it after him, then told the servant to lock it in the basement. The exchange hints at domestic oddity and humor.
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