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Newspaper
Odon Weekly Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1888
Page
4
A young farmer named Joux Burrensr near Mechanicsburg killed his rival, severely wounded his sweetheart, and then took his own life in a jealous spree. The Montgomery County affair followed by news of land deals, pardons, arrests, and assorted incidents across Indiana and nearby towns.
Jamaica hosts an undeveloped pimento industry where birds sow seeds and humans harvest. Trees grow wild on lime stone hills, with few plantings or cultivation. profits vary, and past values ranged from £36,000 to £146,000. Strewn work, fermentation, and sun drying produce fragrant allspice berries used in dishes and Jamaica’s pimento cordial.
Report describes an unnamed young man living reclusively near East Coventry Virginia by a fire quoting poetry from Scott and Burns. Visitors are curious about his identity and past, with locals speculating he may be a fashionable Philadelphia man disillusioned in love retreating to solitary gloom.
An Eureka County grand juror misplaced a pocketbook with $5,000 in currency. It was left in a bed at an Eureka hotel and remained undisturbed for three days while two strangers shared the room.
A terse exchange shows a man scolding a boy for presenting a hill as overdue while the boy retorts the tax is overdue. The snippet captures a tense street scene with a caregiver tone and a hint of financial pressure.
A cook book issued by the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway offers a 126 page illustrated volume with sections on meats fish oysters entrees vegetables and roasting plus medical prescriptions and laundry. Copies cost ten cents including stage delivery to applicants and are available from E A oLRBook General Ticket and Passenger Agent Chicago.
A collage of vintage health pitches and quackery snippets. It touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for wives, Bosscott claims about filing government claims, and various remedies like Hostetter’s Bitters and Piso’s Cure for Catarrh, interspersed with aphorisms and mock dialogue.
An antiquated ad-like claim argues that two hundred million dollars yearly burdens cigar dealers and merchants, urging readers to avoid tax by supporting a named marketing gimmick or scheme.
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