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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1912
Page
2
A critic argues against radical language reforms and a lone educator who claims to remove nine letters. The piece mocks fad teaching methods, cites past failed innovations, and warns such tinkering fogs student learning. It laments the allure of novelty over practical schooling.
Long Island youth protest dismissal of a popular principal marching in striker style. The episode hints at evolving views on self control and discipline in modern education, with some urging revival of traditional ideas for youth conduct.
In a Western university report the dean argues that nine students should have been assigned simple manual labor, prompting the New York World to ask whether a student’s right to college should depend on capacity for knowledge. It questions if the dean’s right to comment is valid even if not practiced.
A Rome dispatch reports letters from Italian officers and men in Tripoli often contradict or understate the official war bulletins. Soldiers describe hardship and less life than the government’s reports show, reflecting a common wartime gap between front line letters and published results.
A garage worker in Canada caused a blaze by smoking over a gasoline can, damaging about four thousand dollars of property. The incident highlights the need for severe penalties for gross carelessness that endangers lives and property.
A London discussion notes proxies for criminals and debtors. Proxies are used to plead guilty or stand in for defendants and even for bail evaders. One case involved a substitute jailed for six months, paid £200, while the real debtor remained at large.
A famed Leghorn hen known as Mrs. Dodge to Holyoke road motormen died after a motorcycle collided with her as she dodged cars on Riverdale road near Ashlerville. Witnesses say she had become a famous daredevil, dodging up to fifteen vehicles in a row and thrilling drivers before meeting the fatal end.
J C Brown of Boulder raised Indian runner ducks in his family bath tub to keep them in prime condition for the Boulder poultry show. Cold weather made the ducks look shaggy so Brown moved them to the tub at home. He filled the tub, placed the ducks inside, and closed the door. The birds won first prize.
Agnes Fanton employed by A W W Marshall risked her life when a runaway horse struck the sidewalk in Greenwich. She threw Robert Marshall against a stone fence and stood in front of him, taking the impact as the horse crashed by, suffering facial and bodily injuries.
Berlin reports a pamphlet titled Good News to the Fat Men by Dr Hikada a Japanese scientist claims thinner skin bears more germs than an epider mis of a mountain of flesh the statement contrasts thin and fat bodies in a provocative remark
Miss Grace Burris a high school girl after a severe horse kick spent days unconscious and then began to talk in German. She remains otherwise mentally normal and has continued speaking German since the incident in Daryton Weash.
In Rome near Prince Ruffo's villa on the Flaminian Way a starving beggar woman was refused alms at a dinner party. She collapsed at the gates, dogs were released and mauled her body. She died the next day in hospital. she was seventy two.
Washington reports Thomas Harrison, chief clerk at the naval observatory, will soon have served 63 years at the same desk. He requested demotion to lighter duties for life support, and after persistence Secretary Barrison and Mr. Winthrop approved a transfer to a simpler role. Harrison is now eighty.
The lesson bases on Luke 5 1 11 and Matthew 9 37 35 stressing Jesus recruit of the first disciples. It argues entrance requires surrender of self and all possessions, with open air preaching urged to reach crowds and evidence that surrender yields rewards in this life and life everlasting.
A careful survey of farmers on large plots shows wheat sold under 55 cents a bushel with freight under 23 cents, yielding a 17.4 cent margin on low grade and about 1914 cents on high grade wheat. The report includes detailed three year cost estimates for 320 acres with notes on efficiency and comparability to 480 acres.
Harper's Weekly reports a colored man named Rastus denying hen theft after being found with three hens under his coat. He explains the hens were wrapped to shield them from freezing weather, while the colonel questions his honesty and sighs at the suspicion.
Booth Tarkington boasts of his early rising habits at his Indianapolis home. He asks Arnold Bennett to join a six o clock ten mile walk, but Bennett replies he does not walk in his sleep.
A historical advertisement touts Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a laxative remedy. The brief copy asserts constipation causes many diseases and claims the product thoroughly cures them.
Hopeful fragments depict Sethe urging men with brains to live. The text reads as a partial quote about intellect and vitality, with no clear event, place, or date.
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