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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1904
Page
4
The advertisement touts Cuticura Ointment as the world’s greatest skin cure and emollient. It claims a single application after a hot bath with Cuticura Soap, sometimes with Cuticura Resolvent Pills, provides immediate relief for distressing skin and scalp humors and aids speedy healing, especially for infants and children.
A distracted narrator describes a scene at the dime museum where a man complains of ongoing condition and a heavyset woman asks how it happened. A girl waves a marble heart as a loud exclamation echoes.
An archaic column touts Teositnte and Hillion Dollar Grass as premier fodder crops with claimed high yields per acre. It cites Victoria Rape and other crops, offers stamps for samples from John A. Salter Send Co, and references a Glasgow Evening Ledger style insert.
West Pembroke Me March 21 Mrs A L Smith testifies Deid's Kidney Pills helped her thirteen year old daughter after years of epilepsy like spells and yellowing eyes. She reports after a dozen boxes the girl has had no serious fits and the remedy is urged for other mothers.
A garbled account describes actions and reactions around a Philadelphia event. Names and details are unclear. the piece reads like damaged OCR with scattered phrases and unfamiliar terms.
The British troop ship Assaye collided with the American steamship New York off Cherbourg and in the English Channel. Both vessels sustained damage but no injuries were reported. The Lady Cairns, a three masted bark, sank off Dublin with 22 crew drowned.
President A M Cannon of the Salt Lake Stake reflects on past imprisonment for testifying to Jesus and divine teachings. He recalls writing to his children's mothers to guide their faith and asserts the spirit cannot be confined by penitentiaries or walls.
Firefighters rescued nine workers trapped inside burning Union Tract barns on Western Avenue as flames destroyed both structures. The incident marks the second arson suspected barn fire in a week. Fire crews report extensive damage with several more cars burned and a hose line ruptured during containment efforts.
Belgrade March 21 The foreign office asked Russia about Servian volunteers and the emperor agreed to accept the voluntary service of 30 Bulgarians and 300 Servians.
A Sunday night fire destroyed the Grove Show Print Co. plant and the factory owned by M. Molitor and J. P. Hummel at the Milwaukee and Huron streets corner. Total losses run about 190000 dollars. In Chicago, Charles Counselman of Counselman & Co. died at Hot Springs Virginia from Bright's disease, a leading Chicago broker.
March 17 to 19 coverage shows Senate executive sessions debating Gen Leonard Wood for major general with speeches by Blackburn Quarles Alger. House post office bills face criticism and rural delivery issues. A Jai Alai game draws interest as a novelty at hearings.
Washington reports Gen Leonard Wood is confirmed as a major general effective August 8 1898 by a Senate vote of 45 to 16 after a long opposition led by the late Senator Hanna. Five Democrats joined the majority: Cockrell Pettus Patterson Clarke and Dubois.
Lord Milner cancels English author William T. Stead’s travel permit in South Africa citing the character of his speeches. Also noted Columbian legation closed in Washington with Dr Thomas Herran set to depart for Medellin in weeks. Chan Ming Shang, San Francisco merchant and head of Chinese reform movement, meets President Roosevelt in Washington.
A feature extols Western Canada climate with government atlas, railway rate details, and favorable conditions. It notes 1800 feet elevation, bright winters, warm summers, and a bracing atmosphere with moderate rainfall. July temps reach 66 at Winnipeg and 62 at Prince Albert. Harvests begin August amid ample moisture and long sunshine, with cyclones and blizzards absent.
A fragmentary miscellany blends a mock letter about a daughter with advertising copy for Salzer seed catalogues and farm products. It includes odd epistolary lines, a college rejection remark, and a Rural New Yorker tease from La Crosse Wisconsin seed firm notices.
An old advertisement promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Talers to stop coughs and treat colds. The copy notes a 25 cent price and claims it’s easier to fall into a rut than to rise out of it, a line attributed to Ram’s Horn.
Henry Soule of Pultney Street Hammondport New York describes eight years of constant kidney pain gravel and excessive secretions with nocturnal trips from bed. After using Doan's Kidney Pills he reports a complete lasting cure and improved digestion and sleep. Sold by all druggists 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY offers free trial by mail.
Missouri Senator Cockrell enjoys duplicate whist as recreation while Maine Senator Frye boasts great grandfather status in the Senate. A Washington barber costs Perkins a nickel, quip underscores why gold mines outshine coal in Butte as a joke lands in the press.
Manhattan Island average yields per acre, London at 60 peente. Boston banks and capital shrink one third over five years. Lynn History Society marks memorial to John Adam Dassver, founder of Lynn’s shoe industry. tablet planned for western burial ground. Mount Vernon mayor Brush appoints wealthy city leaders to offices, with aims to donate salaries to charities. Subways and construction drive wagon and horse use, farmers in New Jersey and nearby counties supply teams. prices for good horses rise for contractors.
A summary of early 20th century science claims: Curie reports violet blue rays from radium. Niagara Falls plant extracts nitrogen from air by electrolysis at low Commercial scale. Lapworth and others discuss moon activity. Pusepp reports a painful wound after carrying radclaim. Negstriler Payial cites micro organisms in nerve centers. Chamberlain links comets to radioactive particles. Bowes suggests radium particles from the sun could influence cometary behavior via charged streams.
Chicago market notes list grain bids for FLOUR Winter pot WHEAT No 2 red 91 percent No 3 spring corn No 2 mixed oats No 2 mixed rye No 2 prices 70 71 pork Mess 25 LARD Steam 680 New York items reflect commodity quotations across commodities and futures prices.
The letter from John O Atkinson of Independence Missouri recounts long standing illnesses including chronic constipation and catarrh. He credits Peruna and Manalin with complete cures and urges others to seek Dr Hartman’s advice at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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