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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1912
Page
4
A Chicago professor demonstrates that smoke from a single cigar can kill 5 000 germs. The remark implies even respectable germs should avoid loafing in a cigar store, while Philadelphia faces a leap year case touching a lady who proposed and paid the fare and the parson, suggesting a different view on the leap year proposition.
Next week marks the special poultry and live stock issue with emphasis on breeding stock and egg season. The message urges representation and timely preparation as UK breeding season approaches.
A naïve Indiana man fresh from Lir Wiann astonishes cow punchers in New Meni by taming a fierce outlaw pony. Despite expert rounds he rides to a safe saddle, revealing he once was a Washington Indiana streetcar motor man for eight years.
A vintage advertising piece proclaims the jeweler’s promise to provide fair service and relief to troubled customers. It emphasizes success in handling difficult cases and preserving reputation. Messages praise careful fitting and courteous treatment.
Auction records report land selling for 236 dollars per acre in Daviess County as buyers from Plainville and surrounding areas seek high value plots. High priced holdings cited among top land sales in the region.
Buried in fragmentary notes we glimpse visits and errands across Elnora Terre Haute Indianapolis and Loogootee. Residents like Miss Josephine Lucas Miss Myrtle Myers and the Critchlow family are mentioned with friends relatives and shoppers at Odon Drug Co Reynolds-Brooks and Morrison’s millinery.
The London Times explains Persian murder law where blood money can replace the death penalty. A woman is valued at half a minan, affecting who may be executed. If two women kill a man both may face death, while multiple killers of a woman trigger different blood prices.
Sir Charles Santley and companions faced bandits during a Mexican motor escort ordeal. He sang an aria to entertain captors who freed the group after a generous program of melodies. The episode, celebrated by the press, remains a noted moment in his career.
A discussion among observers includes praise for a man who is described as unusually helpful. He is praised for following a moment at a ferryhouse where a crowd waited and he helped a woman struggling with a three year old and parcels, offering aid as the boat arrival loomed.
A survey of historic city flames notes Moscow as possibly the most fateful conflagration. It lists Persepolis Babylon Carthage Rome Jerusalem Athens Syracuse Baghdad Alexandria Antioch and others as cities ruined by fire, arguing Moscow’s blaze marked the fall of a great nation.
Frail relics and curious claims from the Fabre museum at Montpelier France describe the collar of Homer allegedly worn by Alfieri a Frisian port. The item bears twenty three poet names and a cameo portrait with an Italian distich proclaiming Alfieri’s divine order.
A dialogue exchange unfolds with a fiancee defending her independence while a suitor presses for marriage in a Baltimore American moment showing tension over plans and expectations.
The notice promotes Kokomo field fence with double gal wire stay lines and high carbon line wires to prevent sag. It also endorses Square Deal Heavy Poultry Fence and a full line of Sulky plows cultivators Disc harrows corn planters and other farm implements. The Gale Sulky plow is highlighted as best on the market.
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