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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1896
Page
4
Mrs. Ireland visits James Anthony Froude at his home and is shown a bust that provokes a sharp exchange. Froude identifies the sculpture as Porphyro, given by Sir Edgar Boehm, and playfully defends its prominent display despite the critic in the room finding it repellent.
A New Yorker watching a small Adirondack lake notes a school of infant fish guarded by parents. Guardians drive stray young back into the school and expel approaching fish. The watcher records two hours of mixed schooling behavior and compares it to herd movement.
A preacher expounds Isaiah 53 6 urging sinners to admit their need and let Christ bear the iniquity of us all. He illustrates repentance with testimonies of lost souls and families scarred by sin, inviting the audience to yield burdens to Jesus and seek forgiveness. The sermon blends call to faith with vivid metaphors of sheep and Calvary.
A mixed European and American digest reports on a copper ore find in Australia, a new glass door contrivance, Arkansas City firefighters adopting a sliding pole, and a West Indies cruise by the Ohio. Other items cover x rays on a Vienna mummy, Limoges porcelain exhibits, a trained Rockport dog, and local births.
A United States consul in Havre argues for better roads to support horseless carriages and all vehicles. He cites France’s carriages tax plan and criticizes misdirected U.S. road spending, urging systematic, scientific use of revenue to fund drains, gravel, and proper roadways rather than ad hoc scrapes and taxes.
An 19th century guide outlines a practical fruit planting plan to keep a family supplied. Strawberries lead off in early summer with 3 to 4 square rods yielding a quart daily for a month. Four to five hundred plants cover that area. Follow with cherries currants raspberries and gooseberries two dozen bushes of each currants raspberries and two dozen gooseberries provide ample supply. One dozen cherry trees suffices. Blackberries 24 to 36 bushes yield a quart daily late in summer. Apricots early apples pears and some on the earliest plums begin abundance, with longer keeping varieties extending into spring and cellar storage sustains supply through winter.
An illustration shows a milking stool fashioned from a soup box SN12ZN24 inches. Remove the ends, add a triangular board to cover half the top as depicted, yielding a simple, satisfactory stool in use for over a year.
A strange description notes a pail that is flaring at the top during the opening fest scene, with the word Beteeee echoed in the text. The fragment hints at a ceremonial or symbolic display but lacks clear participants or place.
A physician reports remarkable results with Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, citing improvements for sciatica, paralysis recovery, heart palpitations, chorea, and general vitality. The testimonial appears in an Examiner clipping from Lancaster with further ads and health notes.
The Santa Fe Route offers homeseekers excursions on January 11 and February 11 and March 10 1895 from the East to Arkansas Arizona Southern Missouri Oklahoma Indian Territory and Texas. Round trip fares with limited stay overs and literature from G T Nicholson G P A Chicago. Also a light exchange about a marriage objection in the Truth column.
An OCR fragment describes a promotional pamphlet for a farm lands monthly titled Corn Belt by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy RR. It mentions sending 20 cents in stamps to receive a year’s issue and notes various stray ad snippets and misread lines including medical patent cure claims and jokes from unrelated sources.
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