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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1901
Page
4
An old aunt recalls the Skeeter family and Amos Keeter with vivid memory. Her talkative reminiscences evoke many past social outings, ending with the nephew paying to keep up the joke as the scene closes in Cleveland.
The note appears garbled with phrases like fall paint and place names. It references a catalog or invoices and a location that might be in Pennsylvania but lacks clear subjects or events to confirm a news item.
Two Beaumont landowners who sold a promising oil claim near Lucas gusher later watched a neighbor strike it rich. The brothers drilled to 700 feet and yielded 10 to 15 barrels daily, then moved to Silver Lake where a larger flow followed. The Lucas well at their former site produced the era’s greatest gushers, leaving them lamenting luck and lost riches. Their earlier West Virginia timber lands also spiked in value after sale.
A Mexican correspondent reports Padre Patre Pimentel in Puebla visited by a youth Daniel Diso asking to fetch his sister spirit for confession. The padre, aided by Marianu Mellade and two sacristans, entered a bleak house, heard bones creak, and witnessed the sister’s confession and abrupt departure. The ordeal left him ill but resolved to share the tale to spare others from purgatory’s fate. Revenue from offerings follows the event among missionaries.
Miss Ida Hafner runs an extensive brick plant in Owensboro with help from her mother and sister. She digs and carts clay for 3,000 bricks daily and wheels and sets 19,000 bricks in a day, continuing the family business after her husband’s death. They have built a new home and are accumulating property.
Dr. Talmage uses Nehemiah to urge believers to build a Gospel arbor of peace with God and man. He praises evergreen, healthful religion and calls for decisive, active service toward Christian usefulness, with strong faith to endure life’s storms.
A dog cemetery has opened on the Bladensburg road beyond Washington proper, offering plots and optional headboards, grass, and care for beloved canines. The cemeteries aim to provide a proper resting place when city burial is forbidden or impractical.
The article lists inscriptions on the bridge pylons beneath a northern waterside exposition. Statues of Courage, Liberty, Tolerance, Truth, Benevolence, Patriotism, Hospitality, and Justice flank eight panels expressing ideals of adventure, self government, civil liberty, citizen virtue, charitable giving, patriotic love, human brotherhood, and universal peace.
A brief home scene from the Houston Transcript describes Mrs Graves tale being cold and the couple's evening spent with the narrator playing piano while a man in his chair remains silent all night. The exchange includes Mrs Wyse-Sits questioning the playing and the line about Gatocer driving one to distraction.
Night watchman halts a stranger suspected of stealing funds from a bank vault. The incident sparks indignation as he rebukes the intruder with a sharp retort about nerve and impropriety, reflecting a period tone and alertness to crime.
Disjointed clippings report a claim that bronchitis can be curved or cured quickly by a product called Hoxsie's Croup Cure priced at 50 cents. The note includes unrelated aphorisms and small ads about Putnam face dyes and generic newspaper lines.
Miss Bessie Kellog of Valley City North Dakota credits Peruna with curing severe monthly pains after doctors failed. She says three weeks of use reduced symptoms and two months produced no pain. others are urged to read her testimonial. The ad cites Dr Hartman and promises free advice if results are not prompt.
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