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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1890
Page
1
A comic domestic scene unfolds with family members quarrelling over a hole in a new suit and a chaotic morning. The text mixes names like Jimmy Jones and Little Joe as characters react to clumsy mischief and breakfast mishaps in a bustling home.
A young New England surgeon recalls an April First joke by lumbermen at a remote logging camp. He defuses a staged bear attack, uses chloroform, and dislocates the shoulder, then kills the bear to earn respect and build his practice, gaining a reputational boost from the tale.
The article surveys how Easter egg gifts originated in Persia and spread globally. It notes egg symbolism for renewal, Lent practices, blessing rites in Italy Germany Poland and Russia, and customs like egg-hunting in Alsace and egg-cracking in various lands, with a concluding religious reflection.
March sessions in Washington feature Senate discussions on the Blair educational bill and a push to restrict foreign immigration. House actions include the Mudd Compton contested election ruling, pension bills, and a $1.2 million World’s Fair appropriation favoring Chicago with April 9 as the event date.
A long list of fatal and violent events across Indiana. Includes Manny Van AUSDALL and two brakemen killed between Connersville and Browns ville, a Brookfield dynamite blast, rabid dog bites in Stendal, death by suicide in Indianapolis and South Bend, a Brown County youth placed in an insane asylum, fatal blasting accident near Lafayette, and multiple burials. Also notes a large gas field survey around Marion, a major plate glass factory planned for Elwood, and local crime and court actions including a burglary sentence in Valparaiso.
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