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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1906
Page
3
Miss Clara Driscol paid sixty thousand dollars to save the Alamo from sale and redevelopment. The Texas legislature authorized the purchase and named her honorary custodian, preserving the historic fort famed for the Mexican War siege and heroism.
A Vermont man seeks Louisville unsaved for missionary work and a postmaster forwards a city directory with 250 000 names. The piece also covers Miss Driscol and the Mexican opera Mexicana and her globe trotting career from Spain to the Spanish American War era.
Serpent themed jewelry dominates this season with rings broaches bangles and necklaces in snake form. A belt shaped like a gold rattlesnake and a jeweled snake coronet were seen at recent New York events signaling a broader move toward snaky adornments and even snake charming skills among women.
A fragment describes a dubious wealth plan urging folding a banknote across itself to supposedly double the roll. The text promotes quick money tricks, lacks credible method, and echoes common get rich schemes with no verifiable steps or safeguards.
Under Mrs. Roosevelt's supervision a valuable collection of presidential dinnerware is shown in the White House basement. The exhibit features remnants from Martha Washington to Mrs. McKinley, including rare gold trimmed plates and cups once part of presidential service.
In the name of her father and mother Gould, with the assistance of gE Altn, she annually distributes in charity. Probably Miss.
Congress plans to slash salaries for government clerks aged 65 and over, possibly firing many after decades of service. The Appropriation Committee cites over 2 million annually paid to 65 plus workers and predicts substantial reductions, prompting criticism of the merit system and warnings from observers about hardship for long-serving veterans.
The article notes two reasons for back coat buttons. One suggests they survive from eighteenth century riding coats designed to button tails when mounted. The other cites fashion and functional uniformity as contributing factors.
A construction plan by The Singer Manufacturing Company proposes a structure in New York designed to exceed all existing city skyscrapers. The project aims to set a new height record and redefine the skyline with a groundbreaking tower.
J M Berger an expert electrician claims his method can revive a person after electrocution. He says the body must be retrieved within fifteen minutes of death, brain not baked and lungs not carbonated. He cites a Baltimore line man case and outlines a step by step chest compression and arm maneuvers to revive. He warns calm, methodical application and pulling the tongue forward during the process.
Button holes in the seventeenth century were mainly decorative. They were cut and laid with bright colors, embroidered with silver and gold thread, and bound with kid and velvet.
The article notes breeches in the late eighteenth century were skin tight in the latter period. A tailor is quoted by a man who vowed not to pay if he could not fit into the pair of breeches.
English Irish and Scotch yards turned out 1,744,402 tons of new ships last year, a figure that equals double the entire American ocean tonnage, highlighting a dramatic shift in major shipbuilding strength.
A travelogue recounts a St Augustine visit with Cathedral bells fort Marion and old streets. The narrator sails the St Johns to Palatka, then up the Oklawaha noting moss hung cypress, black water, lily pads, pine torches, and evening river scenes with singing passengers.
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