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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1903
Page
4
Advertises Nimphreys Witch Hazel Oil as a permanent cure for piles including external internal and bleeding forms. Claims immediate relief and certainty of cure with sample mailing free and prices 25c 50c and $1.00. Sold by Beruceivts or prepaid on receipt of price, Nimphreys Medicine Co. New York.
Advertisement for Humphreys Homeopathic Specific No. 28 claiming strength against vital weakness and prostration from overwork. States use for over 40 years as sole remedy. Priced at $1 per vial or $5 for special package, with prepaid shipping offered. Sold by druggists or by mail from Humphreys Medical Co. New York address listed.
A burned hotel at Lester West Virginia kills six and injures one. Evansville man William R. Legeman drowns while duck hunting in the Ohio River. Gallatin Tennessee residents resist a Black rural mail carrier. Congress logs 18,420 House bills and 3,480 acted on, while state park plans at San Jacinto evolve. Sam Houston burial debate and White River floods threaten communities across Indiana and nearby states.
Reports from Olean New York describe a catastrophic oil train tanker explosion near the Erie line. Twenty two dead and many injured as tank cars ignited, with flames lighting the region for miles and crowds watching from tracks. Reporter Sydney Fish recounts the terrifying sequence and erratic blast impacts. The disaster underscored the peril to residents and the need for safety around levees and rail facilities.
Miss Ruby Julian, guest of Mrs. Fred Bailey for several days, returns to her Heltonville home Monday afternoon. Attorney A. W. Jones of Mitchell reports Hugh Fields’s pension rising from $17 to $24 monthly. N H Crawford, new McClelland property buyer, moves his family from Hyatt Station to the corner of 17th and M streets. Typhoid cases hit Springville residents including Prof. Chas Mason, Homer Evans, Harland Carmichael, and a Johnson youth. Mrs. Myrtle Hoesman and daughter return to Merom after two weeks with Mrs. Mary Blackburn of West 14th street. Cal Harrell north of town shows a well developed smallpox case. Seventeen days after sleeping in a bed at Oolitic he contracts the disease. Heltonville News. Mr and Mrs Chas Braden attend funeral of Ambrose Braden at Mitchell after an accidental pistol wound. Gus Wyerbacher erects a large ice plant and digs a deep well for water. Senate passes a bill to rename Limestone Monroe county to Sanders. A land-title correction law is needed for town plats. Frank Whitted returns from Baltimore with two weeks home leave in the 113th Coast Artillery. Wesley Gilson sells his 18th and EH streets dwelling to Charles Pate of Leesville. Gilson plans a Westward farming venture.
Public notice promoting low second class colonist and home seekers railway rates to Oklahoma Texas Kansas Colorado and other western destinations offered by B&O Southwestern agents. Contact 8 L Keachn for details and travel options.
W A Foote received a telegram from Washington City announcing the death of Gen. James W McMillan, his brother in law. Gen. McMillan was 78 years old.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude for kindness during illness and death of Henry Skerd. Notices mention Mr Reis visiting, assignment by his employer, and attorney Frank M. Vance moving to Fell building front suite with future dual street entrances on 16th street.
On Monday through Friday residents and visitors from Shiloh East Pinhook Ft Ritner Sparksville and Bedford habits filled the town. Several Flinns and kin moved properties and visited kin while others conducted business with Dr Boyd and Bedford Business College. A burglary on Tuesday night at Alfred Guthrie's store failed to gain cash.
Muffled drum and soldiers’ last tattoo mark the fallen as they rest beyond life’s parade. The lines speak of fame, eternal camping ground, and the bivouac of the dead. The fragment ends with the name John Williams and a reference to judgment day.
Bedford bar committee memorializes John Riley born in Ohio 78 years ago who lived in Lawrence county over forty years. He served as clerk of the Lawrence circuit court for eight years and was a devoted lawyer and genial speaker. Riley died January 21, 1903. tribute praises his character and life, with committee members Georg e O Iseminger Newton Crooke and others. Also notices cheap rail rates and a Southern Indians Ry fast train to Chicago from Bedford.
John P. Wicker of Stonington is celebrated as a transacting business hero on Friday. Miss Dora Reynolds of Sparksville is visiting her sister Mrs. David Phipps.
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