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Newspaper
Odon Weekly Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1889
Page
4
A wide mix of Indiana news items fills the week with town gossip and calamities. Reports cover elopements at Evansville and Lafayette area incidents, wrecks and fatalities near Montpelier and Fort Wayne, church revivals, exhumations, hydrophobia outbreaks, arrests for arson, and local court actions.
A Rhode Island man, over 70, visited the Providence & Worcester railroad office to settle a December 3 1857 freight bill for apples. He initially accepted a $20 compromise after $16.50 plus $30.69 interest, then insisted on paying the full $47.19 to end a 31 year burden. The act reflects stern thrift and conscience.
Twenty new towns along the Cherokee Dakota Division of the Illinois Central Railroad between Onawa Iowa and Sioux Falls Dakota promise rapid growth. Promoters urge investors to request pamphlets on towns and farming land and fare rates from F B Bowls General Northern Passenger Agent 121 Randolph Street Chicago. The notice mentions Dakota statehood and promotion of settlement with free mailings from E P Wilcox 22 Fifth Avenue Chicago.
A compendium of Tippecanoe battle memory, political threads from Harrison to 1940, and a string of 19th 20th century advertisements. It ties frontier valor to later public life while pitching tonics and medicines to readers with period style.
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