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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1901
Page
2
Odon Indiana publication details listed with post office classification and subscription rates. Includes periods for one year six months and three months with prices.
Odon is a small city with about 1500 residents on the southern Indiana Railroad. It lies twenty miles northeast of Washington, county seat of Daviess. The town features electrified streets, churches, a brick business block, several manufactories and mines, a normal school, and surrounding rich agricultural land.
The Bloomfield News released a twenty page edition last week with sixteen pages focused on Bloomfield and Greene County. It features illustrations of prominent businessmen and business houses and is praised as one of Indiana's best weekly papers.
The country adopts a new explosive after successful tests. Inventor sells the secret to the government. It is said to be more deadly than lyddite yet safer to handle. Tests show it can pierce twelve inch Harveyized nickel steel armor and explode on the far side with power to destroy contact. It remains inert to red hot iron and ignites via a fuse after passing the plate.
A young Bostonian questions Memorial Day observance and origin while a columnist argues immigrants threaten American institutions. The piece warns of half a million arrivals, many illiterate, potentially harming urban decency and civic life.
A literary review questions if women ever reach the highest pinnacles, arguing that even in feminine vocations like cooking and fashion, men excel. Mrs Wilcox notes women lack system and poise, distracted by vanity, offering a counterpoint.
The magazine blends feminine approval with practical advice for duplicate construction. It highlights a Red White and Blue Party and patriotic recitations. It also includes an article on the Women Managers of the Pan American with half tone illustrations.
A case alleges that American Express refused to receive an express package from Jasonville to Indianapolis and faced Southern pressure to treat it on par with other express firms.
Several citizens from the northern part of the state purchased farms here over the past year. Real estate agent Reason Bennett sold the Taylor farm to Eli Bauserman last fall and the Wymer farm to Wm Sprague last winter. Bennett also sold Gov Bowman's farm to Samuel Scott, and recently Mrs Dora Chiles' farm to Enoch Clayton. The notices praise their arrival and note room for more settlers.
Twenty years after the Sus any in dane began, U B church set apart Children’s Day near Otterbein’s birthday Jungard. Services were at Mad Pike in the morning Pilessant Hil in the afternoon and Aden at night with large audiences and fine decorations. The piaster delivered a brief address.
Mr W B Whebon of the First National Bank of Winterstown reports a carpenter near stoppage due to diarrhoea. He says he and the worker treated with Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy bought locally and the man recovered and returned to work. Sold by Webster.
The article describes home burn care, stressing quick cooling and dressings. It recommends carron oil, baking soda or soda moistened with oils, and cloth wraps. Avoid flour or dusting powders, and use the white of an egg for superficial burns with muslin as a dressing.
In Milan the rsot production of Verdi's Othello drew European critics including a famed Paris journalist. He sought private final rehearsals, was refused, fearing a hastily written Paris article. Verdi replied he does not write for the next day, leaving the critic to depart.
A rich patron, claiming little interest in fine arts unless useful, commissioned a plumber to transform a bust of his grandfather into a fountain. On his birthday the guests viewed the sculpture with a jet of water rising from the top, feeding a marble basin with gold and silver fish.
A minister encounters a crowd of boys with a ringed dog and asks what they are doing. A boy says the winner keeps the dog, prompting the minister to remark on his own honesty in youth. The scene ends with a shout to “Hadad him up the dog” amid playful mischief.
An old advertisement extols Balm of Figs as a home remedy for female troubles. It claims cures in many regions, asserts lack of need for embarrassing exams, and invites readers to request a free sample and full description by sending name and address.
School trustees appoint the term 1901 2 teachers. Superintendent William Abel and principal E W Bennett lead the staff with E A ODell Grant Callahan Carrie Arford Maud Laughlin and Edna Skemp in the grade assignments. Numerous applications exceeded school needs.
An advertisement touts Solid Cuevee Silver tableware as pure sterling silver through and through with no plating, claiming superior hardness and longevity at about one sixth the cost of traditional silver. It offers a free, time-limited promotion for Warranteeds to wear twenty five years and invites readers to Morgan and Harrison Streets in Chicago to obtain a set. Also includes an unrelated medicinal testimonial for Chamberlains Pain Palm.
Harry H. Crooke advertises loans on improved farm land at three percent interest. Call for details and terms.
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