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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1915
Page
6
Readable fragments indicate a local event or notice involving names such as Forra Haut Esonville Linton and Seymour. Details are unclear, but the text implies a community notice or brief item on upcoming action.
A fragmented note discusses how fish and birds have eyes set for side viewing while humans balance differently. It compares animal vision to human forward focus and notes birds can move wing tips while a pilot must turn his head to inspect his wings.
The notice states cider is produced every Thursday at the mill close to the depot. Workers and associates should note a recurring weekly schedule for production at the site.
A new Indiana publication named The Weekly Boost announces itself as a Hoosier product with circulation in nearly a dozen states. Walter D. Thurber leads the effort under the state anti tuberculosis society, featuring Boostergrams and Red Cross seal campaign material across two colors.
A collection of aphorisms and maxims attributed to Simplicus covers daily wisdom and social commentary. Topics range from patience, silence, and marriage to taxation, law, advertising, superstition, and human folly in compact, often humorous phrasing.
Street Corner Sage vents about the new emphasis on athletics in town. He laments the shift from reading writing and arithmetic to domestics, science and sports. A younger man tries to reassure him as Burnville plans to bring a big crowd to challenge the locals. The Sage resists the notion of paying extra to see the game.
Largest cavern in the world lies at Mammoth Cave Kentucky. The Liberty Bell was ordered in 1951 for Pennsylvania State House Philadelphia. Over 500 uses for vulcanized rubber. Great Salt Lake water is 3.15 percent salt. Gunpowder first used in Europe in the 12th century by Christians and Moors in Spain.
Fragmentary verse notes Max Welton’s girl described as thin at dawn and well formed after nightfall. The quatrain-like lines mix playful innuendo with rustic imagery, using early dew and evening shape as the motif.
Indiana boosters adopt new ad methods for Red Cross seal drives. In Indianapolis a mascot elephant named Minnie undergoes official measurements for a guessing contest on seal numbers and a gown for Minnie’s 7060 pounds of avondurdis. Other towns will feature giant lung testers and a white coffin procession to highlight tuberculosis deaths as clocks and thermometers track early sales growth.
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