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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1918
Page
4
Town notices report relatives visiting from St Louis Terre Haute and West Point Ky. Prices on ton lots and a cotton seed meal delivery. Rexall drugstore features candy and Vicks Vapo Rub. Also ads for hunting restrictions and farm loans with five year terms and prepay option.
An old coal ad promotes Imine lump coal priced at 10 3 5 cents and delivered lumps at 15 3 5 cents. The copy includes a name A. Oveiten.
Local items note Rexall Store next to the post office moving dolls and toys to the annex for the Christmas season. Mentions Mrs Amanda Alford visiting Indianapolis and various family visits around town. Also references New Edison phonograph promotions and a 44th birthday anniversary at the Helm home.
An advertisement urges buying useful gifts such as watches clocks silverware fountain pens and more as postwar luxuries including diamonds rings and brooches. It promotes Keck the Jeweler as Santa headquarters at Christmas and notes a lost Scotch collie with a reward. Also mentions Miss Myra McLaughlin visiting her uncle G H Gilpatrick and plans to travel to Colorado after year’s start.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications as the disease starts inside. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and claims to heal through the blood to the mucous surfaces. It is said to be prescribed by leading physicians and contains tonics and blood purifiers. Testimonials are offered and the product is sold by druggists.
A Rexall Store display near the Post Office offers a New Edison phonograph marketed as having a soulful sound.
A string of wavering maxims on freshness vanity and gossip invites mixed judgment. The speaker moves through gendered notes and social behavior noting that reputation and polish can outshine neighbors while honesty and courage are questioned in quirky aphorisms.
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