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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1894
Page
4
The Inclignspolis Journal records a casual warning urging children to behave to avoid missing their medicine tonight, reflecting a domestic moral lesson in a small community notice.
Advertisement extols Hoitaters Stomach Bitters for travel sickness and relief from malaria kidney dyspepsia nervous and rheumatic troubles with claims of magical improvements after a wineglassful during or after travel.
A пьge from the era notes Ameststen struggling to hold parishioner attention during a sermon until he uses a device placed behind him. The item described resembles tar and enhances focus. An ad line touts Hale's Honey of Tar and Pike's Toothache Drops as quick cures. A curiously placed aside mentions petty thieves and reluctance to overdo theft.
A brief notice notes Hiall's Catarrh Corp product taken internally with price details unclear. The fragment mentions the company and a price reference, indicating a commerce or medicine context in local business notices.
Rev Dr Talmage selects The Quick Feet as Sunday sermon text from Matthew 14 6 describing Herod's birthday feast with Salome’s dance. He argues modern society should curb ballroom dissipation while preserving joy and warns of ruin from excessive social revelry citing church fathers and biblical lessons.
A narrator extols aging maternal grace, laments vanity and dissipation, and warns that society’s pursuit of fashion and pleasure erodes virtue. The speech contrasts sacred moments with temptations of the world, urging pulpits to denounce frivolity and protect the weak.
The piece notes widespread street name duplication in major cities with Boston highlighted for many duplicates. It cites New York and Paris comparisons, lists notable street names and figures, and mentions clerks and postmen handling misdirected mail with directory searchers and longest-serving staff guiding the sorting.
Rural New Yorker letter by Alice E. Pinney laments road dumping along Camden County highways. Neighbors clash over roadside litter from backyards and pantries, arguing for responsible disposal to keep improving roadsides and encourage rural pride.
Farm and Home describes a cheap 20 inch wide slatted trough sorter 5 to 6 feet long set at an incline with slats 1/7 inch apart to let marketable small potatoes roll into a basket while larger ones and soil fall away. construction uses inch-thick slats four bottom cleats and 8 inch high sideboards to keep contents in place.
A briefer notes the kukul or candle nut tree of Hawaii. It describes light from nuts strung as torches, oil for painting and remedies, edible kernel paste with salt and pepper, and uses for indelible ink from burnt shell. Also mentions gum from bark, canoe use, fungus on trunks, and modern tourist interest in kukui nut products.
Experiments at the Kentucky experiment station sprayed two plum trees on June 9 and July 5 with Bordeaux mixture to combat brown rot. The sprayed tree yielded 477 plums weighing 50 pounds while the unsprayed check produced 35 plums weighing 6 pounds, a roughly 4 percent gain in total fruit. The note outlines spray composition and method.
Londoners face widespread malnutrition and illness with 25 percent of London board school children starting the day without a proper breakfast. Doctors warn the city risks long term physical decline unless a major social change occurs. Acute rheumatism typhoid and consumption are common among workers and mothers. London Letter.
A Portland scene describes eagles outsmarting sage hens in flight to secure a meal. One eagle sits low as a covey rises, another swoops from above, scattering the hens, allowing the first to seize a bird and escape to dine. The tale illustrates claimed eagle reasoning.
A collage of aphorisms and quotes from Harper s Young People and other sources. It contrasts wilderness navigation with life goals and virtue. Witty lines emphasize honesty effort and humility.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system and relieves colds headaches and fevers. It claims broad medical approval and notes bottles sell for 50 cents and 1 dollar, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co with its name on each package.
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