Fragmented Ad Clipping Mentioning Health Remedies
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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR reads like an old classified health ad listing disorders and remedies. Mentions names and a price, plus street references in New York.
A Bloomington World excerpt asserts over 690 revolvers were sold to peaceable citizens in six months. It urges Prosecutor Fletcher to charge concealed carry violators, warning that half the town may break the law and calling for strict enforcement to protect public safety and uphold Indiana law.
Mrs Albert Bjerke, said to have left her husband for a go-between in his employ, arrived in Hartford City seeking forgiveness but was expelled. The estranged husband, Earl Wolfe, and a coal mine worker had been living with the couple after accusations prompted Wolfe to quit. Mrs Bjerke later returned to Indianapolis denying any elopement.
Charles Bennett twenty seven of Lawrenceburg who fought Otis Gooden over Minnie Cooper seventeen was married to Mrs Cleven ing with Squire Proby officiating. The ceremony followed a parlor clash where Bennet and Gooden attacked each other with sabers, injuring Bennett with a deep abdominal cut.
Charles O Maple a leading Bloomington druggist and Purdue graduate died suddenly Sunday evening at his home from Brights disease. A 38 year old Shelbyville native, he married Nora Kerby of Bloomington and belonged to Mascon Pythias and the E church. Friends note a hoodoo rumor linking misfortunes at the store Maple recently owned to a spate of fires and reversals.
In a Brown County whitecapping case the defense and state clash over moon position on June 22. Prof. E M Johnson of Butler College testifies that the moon rose at 3:29 pm and peaked at 9 pm, with a 2:45 am set, aiding the prosecution’s timing dispute.
The Mail reports the Powers case jury action in Georgetown Kentucky hours before Louisville Cincinnati and Indiana papers. The advance story underscores the paper’s enterprise and growing circulation in Lawrence County.
After a lengthy trial in Columbus Indiana the juryconvicted David Fox of Smithville and Jacob Kirk of Kirkville for whitecapping William Vanest the blacksmith at South Bethany on June 22 The verdict sent Fox and Kirk to Michigan City Prison for two to fourteen years with mounting public sentiment backing punishment for the Whitecaping ring involving Monroe and Brown counties.
John D. Sternbeck of Chicago was detained by police on a Menon’s Chicago limited train after causing a disturbance. He pleaded guilty to intoxication, paid $11, and was released after arraignment. a search found a sizable bank roll. He allegedly terrorized passengers and attempted to seize the train.
George Barnes 42 of Crawfordsville fell from the Monon Chicago Flyer three miles north of Bloomington while traveling at forty miles an hour. Found unconscious at 2 40 pm with severe injuries including a torn ear and likely leg amputation. He was taken to Bloomington Hospital and remains unconscious. reason for leaving the train is unclear. Barnes had been working as a Monon crossing watchman and was on two weeks vacation.
The Tri-Weekly Tribune offers affordable weekly news and market reports for farm prices and city matters. It lists bundled subscriptions with magazines such as Metropolitan Magazine Harper's Bazar and Good Housekeeping. Mrs Sam S Doman visiting Indianapolis stopped here Sunday en route home to Mitchell guest of Mr and Mrs William Kelly
Indiana veterinarians debated state inspection of dairy cattle and fresh killed beef at the Indiana State Veterinary Association session. Dr. J E Gibson urged mandatory certificates proving tuberculin testing and disease freedom for milk and cattle, aiming to stamp out tuberculosis and align meat and milk with strict inspection standards.
Governor May Willson considers a pardon for Caleb Powers after the court declined to move his trial from June 16 and Judge James Morris presided over the case. Powers remains in custody as lawyers return next week with the full testimony for review. Jurors from the Powers trial urge releasing Jim Howard, asserting his innocence in the Goebel murder. Joseph Meadows of Peerless is reported ill.
City Health Officer Dr Morrell Simpson reports trouble compiling Bedford’s 1907 births and deaths. Physicians delayed returns as law requires monthly births and annual death totals. 147 deaths (80 male, 67 female) and 233 births (121 male, 112 female) were recorded, while County Health Officer Hunter’s report was not yet finished.
About 800 state troops pour into Muncie on Saturday to restore order after three days of rioting linked to the street car strike. Adjt. Gen. Oran Perry and local authorities warned exhausted deputies and patrols. Governor Hanly ordered twelve infantry companies and the Indianapolis Battery of light artillery to the city at midnight to control the situation.
Martin V. Gerth of Spencer township Jennings county was chased by bees while cutting a felled tree. He and brother Geo. Gerth returned to the tree and found a hive of honey weighing sixty seven pounds. A falling tree fatally crushed a 300 pound hog they planned to butcher.
Notice of taxes assessed on each 100 valuation for State County City incorporated towns school gravel road and other purposes due at the Treasurer in Bedford. First Installment due by the First Monday in May. Second Installment by the First Monday in November. or all by the First Monday in May. Delinquency and 10 percent penalty apply if the first installment is late.
Several young women in the city planned a leap year dance reported by the Washington Herald. They invited their boy friends but most refused or failed to come, causing the event to be abandoned.
Diphtheria outbreaks near Elnora Indiana prompt quarantines. A two year old child of Al Stout died this winter and two other families, the Eagen and Ketchem households, are affected. Schools remain closed temporarily as the situation is monitored.
The Bloomington Telephone reports a new court house and a new fish weather vane. Citizens led by Aaron Rose raised 38 dollars to gild the fish, with William Seward commissioned to apply the gold leaf. Mrs. John Hendricks and daughter returned from Henryville.
The Guthrie Township Farmers Institute met in Tunnelton on Saturday December 28 with large attendance. Addresses were delivered by O A Lees Haze and D W Anderson. A County Institute is planned for Bedford on January 24 and 25 with a large farmer turnout expected.
Bedford clothing merchants including the Toggery will close shops at 6 PM on all days except Saturdays starting Monday. Paydays fall on the first seventh twentieth twenty first and twenty second of each month. The Postmaster General has painted Bedford mail boxes emerald green.
A special dispatch notes the Monon railroad climb a mile north of Bainbridge reaches 955 feet, the highest point on the line from Chicago to Louisville and possibly the state. At the C D and D crossing of the Hendricks Putnam line the altitude is 925 feet. Greencastle Banner adds Weed Patch Hill in Brown County as the state's highest point.
Rev. Thomas J. Clark, longtime pastor of the First Christian church in Bloomington, surprised his congregation by resigning on Sunday to seek a new field. He is known in Bedford and formerly led the Christian church at Vincennes. Mrs. Louis Ackerman and her son Lawrence Leroy, visiting relatives here, returned to Salem on Monday.
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