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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1921
Page
4
William A Radford explains farm hog housing for clean pigs and good litters. He outlines a weatherproof, east west facing two row building with concrete foundation and floor, south sun exposure, ventilation, bedding, and raised plank floors to keep pigs warm and dry.
The article describes simple concrete pens on farmer lots to house sows and piglets. It notes that a typical general farmer keeps three or four sows producing 20 to 30 pigs and suggests a level concrete pen with expansion joints and a feeding floor to reduce waste and frost heave.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger reports Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover held a long talk with a former official about government reorganization. The visitor likened postwar plans to two veterans unsure of life after the war, drawing contrasts between becoming prosperous and returning to the South.
Wireless impulses from the Washington observatory adjust a self winding clock at noon using a radio link. The clock opens a switch at 12:00 to receive the noon signal, then closes and reopens automatically if no message is received, ensuring daily correct time.
The article explains how a wireless device manages correction autonomously by acting to regulate its reception and processing. It describes a self-contained control mechanism that adjusts parameters to improve accuracy without external input.
A new automatic electrical testing and control system records changes in a chemical process and corrects them in real time. It monitors solution strength, density, gas content, and other characteristics, transmitting data to distant charts while valves adjust shortages or surpluses. The setup compensates for temperature, pressure, and reaction rate, enabling continuous control of mixtures.
A group from New Albany Hope Lodge joined the Tabor Lodge in Jeffersonville to confer work, then toured Spring Street and the interurban station. Onlookers joked about convicts being shipped away as about 300 inmates of the reformatory had recently been sent north.
Marcus finds Tony despondent over his engagement to Marcella Lennox. Tony frets whether her revolving enthusiasms—from horses to dogs to prize poultry and Angora cats—signal genuine affection or another passing hobby.
Sunday and Saturday gatherings feature James York Al Toon and families Ira Webster and children Burns City Enid Webster near Odon Aalison Overton Perry Adams Richard Meek Scot land Grace Carpenter Odon Alice Carr Willis Overton Vaiia Sims Wm Neekemer Epsom Walter McKinney and Bernard Singleton in town and area social rounds.
Clarence Byrer and others spent Thursday and Friday in Indianapolis with Aaron Hattery Fred Byrer and Mrs Laura Strange. Mrs John Kelsey drove to Olney. Edd Froelich and friends visited from Indianapolis over Sunday. Mary Barnes of Blankenship visited James Chestnut household. Cornelius Resler and Fern returned home from Akron Cole after a year away. Henry Myers of near Loogootee and Charley Myers with family visited Jess Chestnut. Mattie Wellington and son Lee and Herbert Dedrick visited Herschel Harper. Maggie Harper spent Sunday with Isaac Benham and Caroline Benham of Lucas at the Chandler home.
Miss La Rue Davis of Chattanooga Tennessee says before Tanlac she weighed 76 pounds and suffered from stomach trouble and rheumatism. She began taking Tanlac in Gas City Indiana and now weighs over 100 pounds with improved appetite and complexion. Tanlac is sold in Odon by Odon Drug Co. and by druggists everywhere.
Creditors heirs and legatees of Mary J Howard deceased must appear in Daviess Circuit Court Washington Indiana on October 7 1921 to show cause why final settlement of the estate should not be approved and to prove heirship and receive distributive shares Administrator Thomas S Howard E P Laughlin attorney 9 23 21
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