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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1901
Page
2
A brief travelogue style description highlights a town with 1500 residents on the southern Indiana Railroad. It notes electric lights, churches, homes, six room houses, manufacturing establishments, coal mines within four miles, a Normal School, a thriving agricultural region, and a fine class of residents.
A data note states that out of 120009 farmers in Norway all but 11000 own their farms, indicating broad private ownership among the agricultural sector.
In 1800 there was no railroad and today the United States has 185000 miles of track.
Observers note the Pan-American Exposition structures and exhibits require about a half million dollars for upkeep. In Indiana a twelve year maximum penalty for vote selling is deemed excessive and misaligned with the crime.
Secretary Long approves the four new battleships names Connecticut Louisiana Tennessee and Washington. The second sentence contrasts an alderman’s salary with a black man’s prospects, noting similar odds but different skin color.
At the last election women voted for Presidential electors in four states Colorado Utah Wyoming and Idaho. These states grant full or partial suffrage while two-thirds of states have some form of suffrage. Inauguration of McKinley and Roosevelt is near with about forty thousand marching units arranged by parade organizations military and civic. Secretary Long boosts naval representation with seven vessels crews marching.
The Fifty-sixth Congress ends with Porto Rico and Hawaii governments formed, army increased to 100000, reapportionment, and gold standard established. Appropriations total 34457279 457, near wartime levels. Major items include Ship Subsidy, Nicaragua Canal, Pacific Cable, and Oleomargarine bills.
A West Virginia farm uses an elephant for field work and logging with it hitched to a plow. The extraordinary animal reportedly outproduces a team of horses and consumes little more than a horse, earning comparisons to multiple animals in labor.
A jumble of clipped items reports a Bedford man saving a tramp nitroglycerin in whiskey, local crop and tree sales, a weighty Louis Wilkine claim, library hopes, and assorted small-town incidents from Elnora to Washington with crime and legal notices sprinkled through.
Longstanding cattle depredations along the Little Missouri prompt a sheriff to convene ranchers led by Theodore Roosevelt. The sheriff denounces thieves and Roosevelt accuses the sheriff of involvement, predicting the sheriff will not enforce reforms. The sheriff resigns and leaves the area, and cattle stealing ends.
The Rutherfordton editor reports two cures using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He suffered rheumatic shoulder pain for days until two applications relieved all pain. A second case of rheumatic thigh joint pain was nearly crippling but improved after two applications. The remedy was applied by rubbing the affected areas.
A historical notice warns that using cobwebs to stop bleeding is hazardous. A woman’s head wound reportedly stopped bleeding with cobwebs but developed lockjaw days later. A scientist cites germs in cobwebs and warns they can enter open wounds, spreading disease.
Miss Bella C Harber, secretary of the Interstate Good Roads and Public Improvements association, recounts three years of travel across 12 states, urging local road tests and state aid bills. She details lobbying experiences in Jefferson City and Springfield, noting a defeated Illinois plan and her rise from clerk to organizer.
In Four Corners Mr Reuben Hay asks for a helpful farmer suit. A nearby pharmaceutist is suggested by a quick responding youth. A friend recalls starting a play Turned Adrift but could not attract an audience.
A claim cites lemons and oranges acids fatal to the cholera bacillus with germs killed in a day on fruit rinds. The second note defines the Georgian word dada as mother and mana as father in the mountain region between the Caspian and Black seas.
George W. Waitt of South Gar finer Me reports severe cough cold chills and grip. After using one bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the chills call and grip subsided. He commends the medicine and notes it is sold by Webster.
Complaint No. 10 625 alerts defendants Joshua Boardman Geminis Boardman James Boardman Louis Boardman and unknown heirs that the quiet title action will be heard in the Daviess Circuit Court at Washington Indiana on April 1 1901. Clerk Thomas-Clarris signs the notice dated February 21 1901. Treffernan and Mattingly attorneys.
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