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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1910
Page
3
The display features two elegant dresses in hi dress style. One in rege eolienne with a plain front skirt and intricate tucking, edged yoke sleeves and inserted shoulder strip. Materials include seven and a half yards of ete...
Instructions describe making summer bedroom curtains from dotted swiss with five inch hems and sash ties. Using each dot as a base, craft daisy motifs in colored mercerized cotton with lazy daisy petals and centered stitching. Color patterns vary from single color to two tones with alternating shades and decorative hems using briar or chain stitching.
Reordered materials yield renewed bordure decoration in French dress. Patterns feature appliques on tunics, printed fabrics, and embroidery on voile and chintz. Stencil painting and dyed motifs enhance the bordure look, with cretonne and chiffron draping softening the bold work.
Instructions describe curving a blouse sleeve with front seam tucks to create a natural curve. It advises trying the sleeve on with the armhole to observe the turn of the arm and adjust position for a flattering fit.
Bar cies or trasismiont bar cies reflect summer gown trends with plumed hats. Paris fashion shows favor short skirts and flowered cretenne jackets. Crochet lace on gowns jabots and hats. cornflower yellow and browns rise in evening wear. turbans feature large ribbon bows. parasols sport carved wood handles.
The description details an amethyst fine face cloth dress with an over skirt that has a pointed back and a front crossover. The underskirt forms a train edged by silk embroidered insertion, trimming the waistband for a high front. Rucked chiffon under sleeves and yoke with plain setting and shoulder straps complete the ensemble.
Indianapolis reports to the state tax board that interurban property shows increased physical value and employees gain higher wages. Representatives cite improved earnings and higher road costs from local highway laws, while arguing for fairer per mile assessments among Indiana rail outfits.
State news briefs report H. E. Barnard the late pure food and drug commissioner will lecture at the First Baptist church in Bloomington. The piece also notes church representatives from Johnson county organizing a county federation and a dynamiting case near Jamestown resulting in fines for two Indianapolis men. It covers Nellie McDonald versus Dr Curtis Hamilton with 13 love letters read in a $10 000 breach of promise case.
A quote from Lord Lytton emphasizes that mastery comes from collecting precise details and then generalizing them to form a comprehensive judgment. It argues that genius differs from talent through the ability to unite diverse specifics into a single, coherent whole.
Mrs. Pearl Armstrong testified in her husband’s murder case saying they fought, he abused her, and he used medicines for 18 months. She described attempts at self harm by him and herself and claimed she restrained him from going to the river. Doctors stated they saw no acid burns on her hands the day after the death.
George Parker shot and killed Mrs. Peter Talin in a dispute at his flat in Hammond. Parker surrendered to Police Chief Austgen claiming the woman had no right to command him. Neighbor John Seward heard the gunfire and found Parker over the body.
Greenfield Frank Suits, a totally blind young man, completed breaking a 16 acre field on a Hancock county farm using an ordinary walking plow. He stopped at corners by feeling the ground to keep bearings and finished without assistance.
Rev. T. W. Grafton preached a farewell sermon after seven years as pastor at Central Christian Church. The membership grew from 1000 to 2500, making the congregation the largest in Indiana within the denomination. He leaves this week for a new assignment in Kansas City. His successor is not yet chosen.
Rockville residents John Doran, twenty five, and Clint Shaw, twenty one, confessed to burning the Rossville bridge. Special Judge Elwood Hunt sentenced them to two to twenty one years in the Jeffersonville reformatory. The arson will cost Parke county ten thousand dollars. They were under liquor influence at the time.
William Lewis bound over to the grand jury on a murder charge following the death of Albert Dickey who was assaulted by Lewis. The grand jury will investigate the case and also probe the death of E. K. White, a prominent farmer, alleged to have died from arsenic poisoning.
Henry Ranshead and Mrs. Jane Frame, both in their eighties, eloped from Terre Haute to South Bend and were wed in the county courthouse by Justice W. B. Wright. The pair, who separated for 27 years, reunited and married about two weeks after an earlier separation.
Indiana fruit crop damage from a statewide freeze is believed complete. The average fruit crop value is about 5 million dollars, representing a significant loss to the state.
Terre Haute men James M. Smith and Nat Hayes, coal miners from Burnett, were fatally struck by a Big Four passenger train near Burnett while walking along the tracks toward Markle. They were instantly killed as they stepped from a freight train’s path. Both men left large families.
Austria executes very few murderers with a tiny percentage of those convicted receiving capital punishment. The report notes Austria's leniency compared with other nations and highlights the rarity of death sentences in the country.
A sworn confession in a Chicago newspaper claims Charles A. White charged that William Lorimer won a U S Senate seat by bribery and that Lee O Neill Browne and Robert E Wilson participated. Browne and Gov Deneen defend themselves and call for a full inquiry into the charges.
The district attorney's 1909 report notes that in the past twenty years no woman has been convicted of first degree murder in New York County.
Brigadier General Nathan A. M. Dudley US Army retired, a Civil War veteran and participant in campaigns against Indians, died at his Roxbury home at age 81. The Boston area obituary notes his long service and 3v years of frontier duty.
Thomas C. Shotwell reports from New York under March 20 that Taft faces a tariff dispute with Canada as up to 250 000 American farmers may move to the Canadian northwest. He notes Canada gains agricultural importance while U S farmers lose to higher cattle prices and lower meat costs in Canada. He argues the cattle and wheat tariff must be removed soon.
Mrs Wise questions the appeal of a new millionaire who can pay the freight but struggles to express himself. The exchange highlights the contrast between wealth and communication skills in public perception.
The article reports estimates of Jewish population in the United States totaling about 1.69 to 2 million with large Jewish communities in New York Chicago and Philadelphia. It notes growing influence in business and cites about 3000 Jewish lawyers and 1000 Jewish physicians in New York. It lists major papers including Philadelphia Public Ledger New York Times World End Press St Louis Post Dispatch and Chattanooga Times.
Two boys discuss the soul on the way home from Sunday school. Willie asks where the soul is and if it can go somewhere since it is just air. Bobby explains the body and soul travel with the clothes and bones.
A fragment from a Chicago Post item shows a grocery boy asking if customers want meat and telling the cook to place it under the refrigerator. A boy protests he is the other boy not Hen.
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