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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1894
Page
3
A jumble of ads promotes goods at Danner & Toellen including boots shirts and clothing for men and boys. Also featured are remedies such as Magic Paste for toothaches and Keeley cures for alcoholism and opium addiction with money back guarantees. The Conway Institute offers reduced-rate board and treatment in adwight.
The fragment refers to H G Thomas the jeweler at Josephs Old Stand. No additional context or actions are provided in the readable text.
A reader promotes De Witts Witch Hazel Salve claiming it cures piles sores chapped skin and wounds quickly while noting some prefer immediate relief. The fragment references a fair association presidential appointment and reform but lacks full context.
A French inventor creates a watch fitted with a phonograph to narrate the hour and day. The device can be sealed with mementos, and pressed to replay the day’s events. Advertisements tout De Witts Little Early Risers for digestion and head ache relief, and claim a cure for various ailments. The Capitol dome height and iron stone weight are noted, alongside claims about De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve.
An ad touts an external remedy for cuts sores and eruptions priced at 25 cents per box sold by S Pensinger. A Missouri temperance sermon anecdote recounts a wife’s prank at a barroom meal ending with a note about home.
Purely Personal column records many residents traveling to visit relatives and vote. Names include Seamon Cooper Miss Minnie Davis J I Garten and others visiting Cornettsville Petersburg Plainville Elpora and more with mentions of schooling and election activity. A note on Uncle Harver Evans displaying old coins from Ohio and France with dating references.
Last Saturday pupils gathered at Wallick school house and cleaned it thoroughly. They hauled water in barrels and used kettles to scrub floors wash windows and polish stoves. The students also hung wreaths and pictures on the walls impressing Mr Penrod.
Postmaster Henry Wilson of Welshton Florida touts a rapid relief claim for a long standing diarrhoea using Chamberlain's Aslic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He asserts cures are common with this remedy requiring only one or two doses, often with lasting relief. Sold by W T Stoy the Druggist with water dilution noted.
A satirical prose prayer penned by Miss I. T. Martin of Detroit mocks political promises and economic hardship under Grover Cleveland’s era. The piece parodies ritualistic tone to critique tariffs, poverty, and partisan tensions between Republicans and Democrats in a lament for bread, clothing, and warmth.
Advertisement offers free sample boxes of Dr. King's New Lice Pills and a Guide to Household Instructor. Readers may mail name and address to H. E. Beckles & Co in Chicago for the free items. A drug store note and distant mileage and coal-bed area figures appear in the page.
Read about Dr King s New Life Pill offered by H E Bucklen & Co of Chicago. A free sample box is promised to address constipation and sick headaches and to aid malaria and liver troubles with a vegetable formula that strengthens the stomach and bowels without weakening the system. Regular size available at Pen singer s drug stores.
A curious colonial style passage mocks local women from Philadelphia to Bakersfield for modesty and quirks. It then markets Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for pain relief, plus a New War Department note with rooms, cost, and windows. It ends by touting One Minute Cough Cure as a universal cure.
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