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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1903
Page
2
The Odon Journal lists Friday issues from Odon Indiana with subscription prices of 81.00 yearly six months 2 50 and three months 1 25. Advertising rates available on request. Copy due Tuesdays. Notices and condolences at ad rate. Editor Wilson C Myers serves as proprietor.
A portrait of Odon praising its population of over 1000, brick sidewalks, shade trees, and more than fifty electric lights. The piece extols three churches, 750 Sunday School scholars, and a high school with state-recognized graduates, inviting others to move to the town.
A committee led by George Johnson and Thomas Frayne selects groan east of town as the 4th of July site. An Indianapolis example shows large street corner waste paper boxes with signs urging cleanliness, funded by merchants with about $120 yearly from a liquor firm for box advertisements.
Epworth League sets Friday night program June 1 with scripture from Acts 7 and 27 readings, prayers, songs, and a vision talk. It lists participants including John McCarter Matt O'Dell Roose Culmer Flora Webster J W O'Deil Maud Laughlin Ziba Webster and notes school child counts across Davies Lawrence Monroe Sullivan counties.
A dapper man helps heiress Lucy Atterbury escape a plot to send her to a lunatic asylum. Disguises, a private residence, and a yacht plan keep them ahead of pursuers as Algernon Starkweather guides the ruse and reveals his own deception.
Assessor Duster Williams reports Madison Township total value 366825 with land 43230 and improvements 363345 and personal property 124935 across 205 polls. Town of Odon totals include land and improvements 555165, lots 89555, personal property 123570, with 181 polls, 431 lots, and 241 acres.
A damaged notice calling for teachers of all experience levels, noting high demand this year. Respond with a stamped address to Memphis Tennessee.
A jumble of testimonial phrases touts Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds and Electric Bitters for stomach and bowel troubles. It mentions Z Webster and assorted consumer remedies with guaranteed results and free trials, interwoven with unrelated notes about Canadian forest produce value and a miscaptioned anecdote.
A reader questions if a single person can be helped by Great Augua flower for ingestion and liver issues not cured by other remedies. The note mentions sour stomach headaches sleeplessness and nervous upset and asks for correspondence and a free sample bottle. It also warns against theft and cites Woodbury in Nova Scotia.
An 19th century advertisement promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets and Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets for quick cold relief and appetite boost. Claims include refunds if ineffective and signatures on boxes. Also touts Beechees German Syrup and a general notice to seek high salaries but accept half pay.
Fragmentary OCR shows an old classified ad for a remedy sold by Z Webster a dentist and a vague wanted notice seeking several persons of char. The readable items hint at medical claims and recruitment but lack full context or details.
Clerk Thomas Harris and Jury Commissioners J W McCarty and Albion Horrall drew juries for the June term to convene next Monday. Grand jury members include Michael Madden Bogard township Jacob Fogle Barr F M Balea Bogard Grant Myers Barr Richard Dobbins Washington Peter Morgan Bogard. Petit jury members listed with names and townships ending with Charles Strange Steele. A true likeness the hapish ears at their best is what phake botographs.
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