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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1918
Page
4
Local notices list Rexall Store promotions for Palmolive Soap giveaways and Pratt's Poultry Disinfectant along with various visits by residents and travelers. Mentions include Aldo Hindman, Wendell Mumaw, Enid Williams, Miss Orpha Culner, and others visiting relatives in this city, Indianapolis, Linton, Burns City, and Port land, plus a notice of a gold dollar stick pin lost and a reward offered.
For sale notices announce ice box items and coal from Baslesville mines, with names Walter Callahan and A Overton. An ad lists shoe polish coupons at Kexall Store and 55 percent farm loan money from Chas Sims. The text references farm loans, money to lend, and prepaid options with five year terms.
One year old Lifford Brittin, son of Mr and Mrs Willis Brittin, four miles south of Alfordsville, drowned Monday afternoon after falling into a rinsing water tub in the home during wash day. The mother heard the toddler playing outside and found him submerged. a doctor arrived but救 no help.
Prof. J. J. McCarter received local preacher license at the Vincennes district conference held in Plainville. F. W. Shafer of Good Hope was licensed as an exhorter in the Methodist church. The confer ence honors the brothers for their community and church services.
Red Cross Vanishing Cream with peroxide promotes a creaseless snowy whiteness and sun wind and cold protection. It serves as a base for Amrico Beauty Face Powder with over a hundred other Red Cross Remedies sold by M bt UL RICa CG in Indianapolis. Misses Madse Jseabs and Pearl Boyd traveled to Indianapolis Thursday to visit relatives.
Dr. Harry E Barnard Indiana federal food administrator and the agriculture department will curb profiteering by threshermen. Wheat prices capped between 6 and 8 cents per bushel with a 10 cent proposal in Wayne county deemed too high. Oats threshing will be proportionally increased for fair returns. Measures include prohibiting rotten eggs traffic and coordinating with state food and drug division. Plans from Washington conference. binder twine and sisal twine orders urged. Perishable car priority to aid canners and farmers. substitutes for wheat flour cited with corn flour cheaper.
May 15 marks the start of sugar rationing for consumers under the food administration. Manufacturers receive 190 percent of their requirements unless new businesses begin after 1917, while those starting after November 1, 1917 get fifty percent. Individuals must retain a three pound monthly ration per person in addition to manufacturer quotas. Housewives may buy ahead for canning fruit or vegetables, and May is designated for storing provisions in water to keep ergs, with prices at their yearly low. Stored fruit and vegetables are encouraged as substitutes for staples needed for export.
Mrs Ainley Berry and children Joe and Alice of Bicknell visited relatives here at the start of the week.
An old advertisement touts Sane Eezema Prescription as a universal remedy for eczema and skin diseases and claims Senol as a guaranteed treatment. A 50 cent trial bottle is offered at the Oden Drag Co. and the Rexall Store.
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