Yazel Escapes Jail Sentence In Liquor Case
Arch Yazel avoided imposition of jail time after a court ruled the sentence would not be imposed if he behaves well. a $50 fine remains. He appealed to the supreme court and ten days were given to file the bill of exceptions. He faced charges in Elmore township for keeping a place for the sale of liquor and operating a blind tiger on the Greene-Daviess line at Riverside.
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Arch Yazel
Yazel
Elmore Township
Yatel
Greene
Daviess Counties
Riverside
Optical department eye safety advice pitch
A shop advertises regular eye testing using modern methods and precise lens fitting to ensure future comfort. It promises utmost care, satisfaction, and no charge if glasses are not needed.
Chicago Rates Southern Indiana By Company Ticket Sale
Southern Indiana By Company announces one way second class colorist tickets from Udun Indiana to California and North Pacific routes with stops in Mexico Montana Idaho Washington Oregon and intermediate points. Effective daily to October 31 1997.
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Southern Indiana
Peddler Showdown Roasts City Over Market Undercut
Local merchant demands action against city sanctioning itinerant peddlers after a rival undercuts prices. The notice, printed in Chicago, accuses city officials of allowing undercutting and harming local business.
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Balina
Market Report Glides Through a Busy Exchange
The market writer notes butter at fifteen cents and firming, yeast cakes rising, bananas steady with occasional drops, cheese lively, syrups sticking to farmer prices with higher quart prices, green apples easing, dried apples swelling markets, and chickens picking up slightly.
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Fanny
Turkeys and a BetFulfilling Letter to the Editor
Mark Twain recalls a Virginia City Enterprise prank, a prized turkey, and a bet about the bird’s fate. A note asks the agricultural editor to explain what the turkey died of in the next issue, revealing humor and newsroom rivalry.
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Virginia City Enterprise
Mark Twain
New York
Fresh 1900 dry batteries sold at the Jeweler and Optician
The store announces a new barrel of 1900 dry batteries guaranteed fresh and tested. Customers are invited to visit the Jeweler and Optician to replace weak batteries and ensure clear phone conversations.
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O. K
Three Teachers Necessary for Indiana High Schools
Indianapolis reports a state board rule requiring high schools to be commissioned must employ at least three teachers dedicated full time. Existing commissioned schools not meeting this will have until 1909 to comply. Notices will be sent to non commissioned schools detailing the eight month annual three year program.
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Ucation
Public Instruction
Dinner-Pail Philosophy
A compact collection of maxims on work, ambition, attitude, and success. It champions luck less than pluck and focus, urging steady effort, enthusiasm, and practical pursuit of opportunity while avoiding cynicism and laziness.
When the Catalog Offers No Local Benefit
A wary taxpayer questions a mail order catalog about its contributions to the community. The speaker asks where cash payments, fair exchange, tax support for schools, roads, and the poor, church aid, or market for local crops are promised, urging residents to consider local benefits before buying.
Dr. J. P. McGee Returns Home From Oil Boom Scene
Dr. J. P. McGee of Odon Indiana returns home Saturday after a several day visit. He is a Douglas County man who along with Oakland residents is in the Odeon oil boom region and optimistic about a great future there. He is well posted and has traveled in Europe.
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J. P. McGee
Odon
Indiana
Douglass County
Joseph H Cooper longtime Odon resident dies at home
Joseph H. Cooper an old soldier and resident of Odon died at his home Saturday morning after a brief illness. Born May 22 1841 in Monroe county he served in the 22nd Indiana Regiment and was wounded at Missionary Ridge losing his sight. He moved to Odon in 1888 married Nancy Campbell in 1868 and leaves seven children Rossi Will Marley Ina Byrd and Mary Daugherty with others. Funeral services were conducted at the Christian church with burial in Walnut Hill.
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Joseph H. Cooper
Odon
Mr. Cooper
Monroe County
Greene County
Joseph
Jeff
James Cooper
Bloomington
B. Cooper
Rebecca Everman
Ottawa
Kansas
The
Christian Church
Liberty
22Nd Ind
Missionary Ridge
Joe
Nancy Campbell
Rossi
Will
Dugger
Marley
Coalmont
Ina
Byrd
Mary Daugherty
Drummer Fined for Selling Without License in Texas
A New England patent medicine man in Texas trades with a sheriff posing as a peddler. The sheriff fines the drummer twenty five dollars for selling Brown's Boston Bitters without a license, after a staged sale at a drug store.
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Texas
New England
Drumomer
Harper’s Weekly
Long Sweet Potato Grown in West Odon Garden
Lloyd Sommers brought a 38 inch sweet potato to THE Journal office on Tuesday. It grew in his father's garden in west Odon and is noted as unusually long. A playful note recalls old sayings about Skedaddle and Skiddoo from fifty years ago.
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Lloyd Sommers
Journal
West Odon
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