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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1915
Page
8
Easota Minn Mrs Clara Franxs reports relief from weakness and nerve troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saying she now feels like a different person She urges others to try the medicine and notes the company offers confidential advice from women in Lynn Mass
Hamilton county commissioners vote two to one to construct the Indianapolis boulevard from Noblesville toward Delaware township, about three miles, joining Tenth Street and the Indianapolis pike. Contract award planned for June 8. Total cost around 53000 with 20000 for grade and 1200 for bridges. concrete pavement at about 10000 per mile.
Lawrenceburg reports the stork delivered twin girls to Mr and Mrs Frank L Winters on Shipping street weighing twenty and one half pounds. One baby is blond and the other brunette. The birth marks the twenty sixth birth in the house since 1865 amid several other multiple births recorded at the old Shipping street structure.
George Ivy aged 28 a colored hotel porter drowned in the St. Joseph river while at a bartenders picnic. In the accident Ivy and Frost Spillman aged 30 white were in a boat. Ivy rocked it and went under while Spillman clung to the upturned craft.
In Terre Haute George Woods a colored man was shot in the stomach during a dispute in the tenderloin district. Wounds are critical and his assailant William Pickney a colored man fled the scene. The shooting follows an argument.
City park board proposes a new swimming pool in Riverside park fed by city water from the plant. In Vevay a chicken owned by Mrs. Joe Ash Lamb reportedly has four legs due to extra limbs. Jasper votes to incorporate in a close race with a two vote majority per official returns.
Attacked by a cow, farmer near Patricksburg, Brazil Henry Rentachler sustained serious injuries from the goring. The incident is reported as a local farm accident. Oil report claims discovery near Merrillville Lake County in Indiana. A contractor struck an oil deposit 200 feet down while boring for an artesian well at John Dropp's farm.
Gary von Foerster, a Gary attorney and broker, and his wife Emily Elvira von Foerster divorced in Hammond. Emily left for New York to sail on the Canopic for Nobles, while Gary planned to escort her to the steamer and part as friends.
A collage of odd ads and quips features hints of consumer products like Red Cross Ball Blue laundry aid and Marine Eye Remedy, brief jokes, and slang jokes about bachelors and matrimony. Scattered lines mention daily fly killers and flavor ads, with a Baltimore American quip about Mrs Hold up and a Hazel Mary exchange.
A man tells a woman he does not face the worst of his life story. The item mentions Castoria and Fletcher's Castoria, noted as safe for infants for over 30 years, with children crying for the remedy. California Pelican is referenced in the snippet.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Complexions with soap to cleanse and ointment to soothe and heal. Free samples offered by mail from Boston. Also notes Dr. N. T. Houser's sermon warning on national moral issues and social problems.
A wounded soldier with two broken ribs sits up at home and smokes a cigar as a doctor checks his recovery noting a stitch in his side confirms bones are knitting. A scene shifts to a boarding house where Mr Hallroom is asked for two months back board and replies he has no funds to pay.
An Illinois woman credits tea withdrawal with relief from nervous headaches bilious colic and heart trouble after twenty five years of tea drinking She switched to Postum cereal six months ago and reports no headaches few bilious attacks better sleep and a strengthening heart The ad promotes Postum as a coffee tea alternative from Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan Read The Road to Wellville and describes two Postum forms instant and cereal with prices and preparation tips.
Police and two doctors found Robert Kelly, an employee of Orestes Fertilizer, alive but intoxicated in a wagon three miles east of Alexandria. He was fined $11 in police court after the misperceived death report.
Princeton-Doris Daugherty thirteen drives a peg-toothed harrow on his father Oscar Daugherty’s farm near Ft Branch when the team runs away. He is thrown under the harrow and dragged. fifteen wounds reported, condition serious. Washington Vert Swallows, a married man with seven children, disappeared from his home near Eprom. last seen a week ago leaving for Epsom to buy tobacco.
The fifth payment of interest on the Melzer tontine gift of 1000 dollars to Evansville brings the total to 1104.08 dollars. Created in 1913 by Adolph Melzer for the horses of the city, the fund is to be left untouched for 250 years.
Bicknell Julia Gilbaux, aged forty eight, was crushed to death by falling coal at the Freemas coal mine where she worked. The accident occurred during a routine shift, and authorities are investigating the cause of the collapse and safety compliance at the facility.
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