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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1903
Page
5
A nostalgic look at early American Thanksgiving life contrasts log fires and lone meals in scattered farms with modern celebrations in 1900s households. It recalls large families and children’s indoor play, frost-bitten winters, and simpler traditions before steam radiators and urban crowding.
A reader recalls how a child praises their poet father as a blessing, while others joke that poetry is a disease. In London a Scottish visitor misreads ice as frost bite, then learns the ice is edible. The humor ends with a note on dialect and misunderstanding.
A collection of quips cites Gov. Pennypacker and a judge in Philadelphia arguing about law during a political era. Other items feature Uncle Reuben on credit and a Detroit Free Press joke about buying on credit and codfish. A countrywoman questions marriage fortunes in market talk.
Withdrawals of 4 802 190 dollars with 262 378 in interest. Permanent fund credits of 745 139 dollars from enlisted men pay under the 1883 act. Current expenses withdrawals 264 000 dollars. Spain war claims total 6 657 027 dollars with 4 223 682 allowed, 1 568 359 disallowed, 864 986 pending.
A two ton monster cheese may be manufactured in New York and sent to the St Louis exposition next spring. Agricultural Commissioner Wieting says New York is the greatest cheese producer and the world’s biggest cheese should grace the exhibit.
A Buffalo user reports kidney pain and backache improved after taking a certain Medicine pill. She notes irregular dark secretions with sediment cleared and no back pain since finishing the dose. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents per box. ABSOLUTE
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