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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1895
Page
3
A jumble of local notices, errands, and classifieds runs through the page. Market prices for rabbits and undergarments appear alongside travel notes, shop ads, and school or church events. A funeral and a few personal notices close the column.
Neighbors report travel chatter and visits from Mrs. Fein Hatchard and Mr. Fred Carr family. school this week closed due to diphtheria scare. Harve Pershing family staying with Mr and Mrs Elmer Pershing. Shrine visit by Scotlaned visitors. humorous weather remarks and a health ad for cough remedy at end.
Elnora Indiana notes a quarantine due to diphtheria with city officials curtailing travel. The town clerk and councilmen urge residents to stay home until the illness subsides and request compliance from citizens.
The outbreak has waned with no new diphtheria cases. The Board of Health orders closing town and country schools and keeps children under sixteen off streets, with a probable reopening Monday. Notes about local church and meeting schedules are included amid the order’s details.
A passage presents a garbled OCR snippet with misread words and unreadable sequences. It lacks coherent names places or dates to form a clear event or notice and reads like corrupted text from a historical page.
A fragmented notice from The Journal records a marriage between Minnie Praches and Henry A. Pein with brief wedding details and a note of extended congratulations from the paper.
The item advertises The Golden South real estate in Georgia and Saint Carolina with terms and maps offered by actress David Garey, a broker in West Shoals, Ind. It also promotes a remedy called One Minute Cough Curse by W T Deakiin for asthma and feverish cold symptoms claiming immediate relief.
A young woman walking on Northon Grove Street near Center Street was approached by a stranger in black who demanded a kiss. She shoved him away and fled, reporting the incident in fear. The man was described as clean shaven and unknown to her. An investigation is suggested to identify the culprit.
Dispatches indicate Thursday morning tremors stretched from New Orleans to Onitarie and from Nebraska to Washington, with Indiana near center. Damage was minimal to none beyond cracked walls and toppled chimneys, while Terre Haute and Elwood reported distinct shakes.
An old tale recounts a plot by a group of swindlers to obtain a brick said to be worth 82900. They claimed it hid treasure from sixty years ago and tried to recruit Mr Osborne with a separate offer of 87500 for half after a jeweler tested filings. Osborne refused and the con men sought other victims.
A garbled OCR note references a French ship and fuel or coal quantities, with scattered terms like Biche and WS Fedeniet. It mentions a dean, a statie, and experiments, but details are unclear and names are incomplete in the fragment.
A fragment describes Paris setting a four line requirement for completing a venture. The note hints at a first phase and mentions a project timeline and required tasks. No additional details clarify participants or outcomes.
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