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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1900
Page
4
The ad claims a percentage of people are cured each year by Hood's Sarsaparilla and urges readers to try it. It touts the medicine as a superior blood purifier with cures for scrofula, salt rheum, scald head, pimples, psoriasis, blood poisoning, rheumatism, catarrh, malaria, and other humor disorders, especially prevalent this season.
An 1880s advertisement proclaims Hood's Sarsaparilla as America's greatest blood medicine, asserting cures and health benefits while promoting the tonic as a trusted domestic remedy.
A letter from W H Kinkade dated Alameda N W T Canada Dec 22 1809 recounts his 21 months seeking homestead work in Minnesota and Western Canada. He details wages total of 4759 and 1599 renovation costs with 52 acres prepared for crops by 1950. He credits Dr B Davies and the Canada project for enabling a family effort from $2.55 initial funds to a farmable claim.
A young preacher visits a family and quizzes a five year old girl named Elsie on commandments. She answers there are seven or eight while the priest corrects her, noting that some had long been broken, leaving perhaps seven or eight. The exchange highlights childlike humor and religious instruction.
A fragmentary, humorous exchange stresses a superior bird that imitates anything and a buyer asking for two erscher. The passage shows editorial quips about revenge, ridicule, quarrels, and diplomacy with stray attributions to Chicago Dispatch, New York Tess, and Washington Democrat.
A sermon argues the dramatic impulse is God given and widespread, urging Christianity to govern amusements and create a reformed amusement association. It advocates shortening performances, expunging offensive material, and presenting a controlled, morally safe dramatic venue led by respected community members.
A speaker argues for a new expurgated theater platform funded by a single benefactor to elevate public morals. He envisions Charlott e Cushman and Joseph Jefferson among stars, plus music, architecture, and six nightly performances. He foresees a self supporting venture benefiting religion and culture.
A Philadelphia hotel scene features a young businessman who spends ten dollars on outrageous 50 cent socks, posing to gain fame. He parades sock designs in the hotel corridor for hours, hoping for newspaper coverage, while a clerk suggests patenting the idea for cold feet.
In a boarding house six boys venturing beyond the hash ban recall a Sunday roast served as hash. A grim dialogue unfolds with morbid humor as they mourn a vanished lodge of meals and the landlady’s disdain grows. The tale closes with hash disappearing from the table.
A ship captain demonstrated wireless telegraphy after standard signals failed to alert shore authorities of danger. The text compares the new method to Nostetter's Stomach Bitters, claiming quick restoration of strength, improved appetite, and relief from indigestion. It urges readers to try the remedy.
A Detroit Free Press item notes a crowded courtroom as a foreign witness answers lawyers in his native tongue. A young observer asks dryly if the witness is shorthand talking, sparking light humor amid testimony.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears as senior partner in Toledo that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public signs December 6, 1886. An advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills.
A Cincinnati Enquirer amusement note recalls a mother returning home to find her three year old asleep. The child quips that papa tried to sing like she does and slept through a weak attempt, highlighting a humorous parental moment.
Advertisement offers a free sample of Allen's Foot Ease to readers in Leroy New York. The powder is claimed to cure chilblains sweating damp swollen aching feet and to ease new or tight shoes. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents.
A mosaic of short phrases, jokes, and adverts from different papers. Items include quips about alimony and wealth, a cold remedy claim, a social judgment remark, a lecturer’s remark, a dye advertisement, and a light political jab about a bill. The collection resembles bustling syndicated clippings.
Live stock prices shown for cattle calves and sheep with bids from select butchers and packers. Grain and hay prices listed alongside provisions including lard butter and dairy creamery products. Chicago flour winter patent also noted.
An American maker of steam specialties visits an English rival and explains price differences. The key is labor savings illustrated by self supporting ladders eliminating the need for a man to hold the ladder while painting a sign, lowering costs from seven dollars per unit delivered to about nineteen dollars in local money.
The governor general of Canada asks an Indian how he endures cold in scant covering. The Indian replies in simple terms that his face is always exposed, so it has hardened, then walks away saying Me all face.
Chicago based Union Pacific and North Western Cine offer the Overland Limited departing Chicago 6 30 P M for San Francisco arriving third day, no car changes with dining and library cars and a barber. The Pacific Express leaves Chicago 10 30 P M with through sleepers to California and weekly escorted tours. Tickets via Chicago and North Western Ry. Write W B Kniskern 22 Fillhave Chicago for details and pamphlet.
A speculative note questions how Kansas editors and preachers might alter Wiaros and predicts odd outcomes such as pumpkins in collection plates and subscriptions paid in suspender buttons, reflecting a Baltimore Americana tone.
The Missouri Pacific Railway and Tron Mountain Route offer excursions to the West and Southwest with tickets on sale March 20 at very low rates. Free illustrated pamphlets and maps on state matters available from H. C. Townsend G. P. and T. A. St. Louis.
A Sweet Young Thing and a Savage Bachelor debate marriage after a Browns golden wedding. Ads promote Hale's Honey of Horehound to cure coughs and Piso's Cure to treat whooping cough. A Brooklyn reader signs in with a street address and a dated notice from 1894.
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