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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1896
Page
4
The Egyptian khedive reportedly owns the only complete gold toilet set in the world. Each of the 28 pieces is 18 karat gold, encrusted with over 3,000 diamonds and more than 1,200 rubies, and bears the khedive’s monogram. The set is kept in a diamond-incrusted ebony case. Egypt carries heavy debt and Turkish tribute despite such extravagance.
A crown prince and his brother stay incognito at a hotel with their tutor. The tutor pays the bill and offers a money gift to the chambermaid, who refuses due to a tips ban. The princes then buy a pretty brooch for the maid, claiming it is not money so it cannot be refused, while the maid remains unaware one day the donor may become emperor of Germany.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway plans a four part series of home seeker trips to the West North West and South West in June. Dates listed as March 1, April and June with return flexibility within twenty one days. Rates and schedules available from coupon ticket agents in the East or South. General Passenger and Ticket Agent H Harreney urges orderly conduct and fair labor practices.
Fragmented OCR mentions Shakespeare reference and a claim for Hostetter's Stomach Hitters to aid digestion and strength. It presents an odd mix of phrases about digestion, nerve, and relief, with emphasis on a tonic effect and vitality benefits.
To California in Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars the Burlington Route offers personally conducted excursions to La tRY with through cars to California destination. Special agent in charge via Denver and Salt Lake with weekly departures. Write for pamphlet to A Grady Excursion Manager Chicago. Sunshine all the way.
Vague garbled text describes a misspelled offer about stamps and photographs, mentioning addresses and a subscription style prompt. Names and places are unclear, with scattered references to lawns, clocks, and cities. The fragment reads like an old promotional notice mixed with unclear personal names.
A sermon by Rev Dr Talmage urges warming the world with Christian sympathy before preaching. He likens winter hardships to biblical and historic scenes and praises acts of warmth by Martha Washington, a private soldier, a Samaritan, and Elijah. He calls for blankets and charity to relieve cold stomachs and frozen lives.
A minister extols Christ as the great warmer who cools the world’s harshness. He envisions the church as a warm hothouse offering warmth and hope, urging all to enter, be healed, and have sins pardoned by the gospel fires.
A collage of curiosities mentions mosaie alloy in copper and zinc, fresco ceiling ads for barbershops, Abyssinia’s rugged peaks, a new Alabama cavalry company in Birmingham, and historical lineages traced to Nebuchadnezzar. It notes Abyssinia’s second city Apowa, Prepascot Maine as a “woman’s paradise,” the sultan’s cautious regime, Fundy tides, a California Mexico trip for syndicate letters, a North Carolina tobacco baron, and astrologers revising Queen Victoria’s fate. Also cited are AGASSIZ’s Australia expedition with Max Agassiz, and a Dante manuscript bookworm finding at Cornell Library in 1136 edition.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch summary by John M. Burn advocates simple clay road construction. Ditches three to four feet below the surface drain water, while a two horse scraper smooths and compacts the mud into a dry, hard surface that sheds storms. The method targets low-cost improvement for farmers lacking funds for macadamizing.
A detailed description of a homemade marker device with a slanted frame, crosspieces, barked poles, shafts, and bolts to adjust marking width. The inventor claims it aids guiding a horse and drawing straight rows, with instructions for framing, bracing, and aligning the mechanism.
A small, inexpensive covered salt box is described to supply salt to cattle. The box, 14 inches long, 0 inches wide, and 6 inches high, is hinged with a bevelled top to prevent splitting. It is attached to a fence or post and encourages cows to raise the cover for access, keeping salt available for weeks.
Detroit mother Mrs A L Hartness credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for saving her daughter Blanche after years of illness. The account describes improved health, mobility, and renewed activity, plus a general promotion of the pills and a catarrh cure by Ball’s Catarrh Cure.
A Washington Post anecdote relates a young man who sought a $1000 clerkship from a congressman. He reveals he has $125000 from an aunt and fears the temptation of wealth. The exchange ends with the offer to hold the position so he may spend the money without work. The tale underscores concerns about financial temptations and public service.
A foreign report describes a women skater race in Holland with contestants wearing short skirts and sheer blouses, arms free and necks bare in midwinter, drawing warnings from physicians about danger and fashion. Separate notes mention a Frenpowha Khan incident and Chicago’s planned air powered streetcars.
The Chicago and Northwestern Railway offers Home Seekers excursion tickets on March 10 and April 7 186 to many northern points including Wisconsin Michigan Iowa Minnesota Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota and the Black Hills district. Inquiries at connecting lines ticket agents or W B Kerns G P T A Chicago IL.
A reader offer pledges a free photograph of Honorable I A Walker, Commander in Chief of the G RR, by writing to PL H Loni in the Quincy Building, Chicago. The ad precedes other terse quotes and patent medicine lines common to the period.
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