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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1916
Page
8
Community diary records visits and forays among Shiloh area residents including Marshall Petit moving near Elnora, Trecia Chestnut visiting Plainville, and multiple gatherings with the Overton, Chestnut, Lamb, and Resler families. social events include church group gatherings and a taffy pull hosted by Mrs. 41. A. Taylor. Rev. W. B. Morris of Worthington was in town.
A compendium of brief items lists seed and hardware sales at Callahan & O'Dell and Callahan & GDili, theater ticket promos at Rexall Store, visits by residents to Vincennes and Terre Haute, births and family news, new purchases such as a Ford car for John Sims, barber pole update, and local promotions including wallpaper samples and spray materials from The Odon Drug Co.
Advertises Adler-i-ka from Odon Drug Co as a fast remedy for constipation sour stomach and gas. Claims action on both lower and upper bowel with one spoonful relieving many conditions and even preventing appendicitis after a few doses.
An editorial urges equal athletic opportunities for girls and boys from kindergarten onward. It cites Dr. Savage noting higher female activity and a shift from delicate ideals to strong athletic figures, promoting baseball, horseback riding, swimming and outdoor sports for girls. It ends with a quip about friendship and lending a quarter.
The state of Indiana Daviess County in the Daviess Circuit Court set for February 1916 Casander Flummerfelt Hiram Sims Ezra Swayze Ada Swayze and Carrie O Mally are defendants in a nonresident case. They are required to appear and answer the complaint by the fourth Monday of April 1916 at Washington Indiana or default will be entered.
Citizens are urged to unite and act to improve the town’s two unaesthetic and unreliable telephone systems that mar the beauty and thrift of the community. The plea calls on residents to exercise their power to change the situation.
The article argues that cold weather does not cause colds and explains the germ thrives in damp cold conditions. It endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as effective and widely recommended, and notes it is obtainable everywhere and sold by all dealers.
The note points to quiet danger signals at dinner tables and jokes about money and status. It contrasts views of wealth with social restraint, suggesting some men only gain prominence after joining a labor union.
An old warning against mercury containing remedies for catarrh urges using Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio taken internally. The ad notes no mercury and claims blood and mucous surfaces are treated. testimonials are free and price is 7 cents per bottle. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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