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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1907
Page
4
A moral essay warns that slander hides as a sociable serpent in cities and gatherings. It stresses how false tongues poison homes and relationships, urges the Home Circle as antidote, and advises prudent, independent housekeeping free of vanity and debt.
A long list of visitors and residents are noted in Burns City including Jane Williams and daughter Lizzie at Osca0 Luesday, Dutch Crecelius at home, and Ed Keck’s Worthington group. The piece reports school opening with R. M. Webster and C. O. Willis as teachers, local travel to Odon and Loogootee, and several moves and visits around the area.
The piece discusses Owen Moore who left town due to debt and failed business. It notes neighbors relied on mail order instead of local shops. The poet’s joke about his return is rejected as he would avoid repeating the loss, leaving the town to decay. The closing question asks about local Owen Moore stories.
Notices offer printing services for cards, envelopes, note and letter heads, statements, posters, programs, invitations and pamphlets with Chicago rates. A Southern Indiana Ry Co ad advertises one way second class colonist tickets from Otdon Ind to California and North Pacific routes with destinations to Mexico Montana Idaho Washington Oregon and other points.
The passage condemns excessive curiosity and gossip as a social vice. It argues people dislike being watched or pried into and notes that in confined communities neighbors turn on each other, using gossip to satisfy dramatic instincts and mask real deprivation.
A primary teacher spent a long afternoon guiding six pupils through a natural history museum. The children recalled the day with humorous anecdotes about trains, parables from Sunday school, and a cold night with a flat iron tucked in bed for warmth.
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