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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1902
Page
4
An ad for Humphreys Medicine Co from New York markets a remedy for piles and hemorrhoids with alleged cures for burns, skin eruptions, sore breasts, and rashes. It lists three sizes 25c 50c and 1.00 and offers mail order via prepaid receipts.
Telegraphed items report Chicago banks shipping 1.5 to 2 million dollars daily to country banks in the Mississippi Valley to support grain harvest needs. Other notes include a Gettysburg monument unveiling for Gen Henry W Slocum with a principal address by Seth Low.
Senator Charles W. Fairbanks opens Indiana Republican campaign in Anderson urging voters to back protectionist policy, praising McKinley era measures, tariff revisions, and Roosevelt administration while contrasting with Democratic free trade and its impact on labor, farms, and national finances.
Mrs Ezra McGreer and son visit Livonia mother Mrs Mary Lockhart. Bedford Chief F M Russell and Geo Parks visit Cement City in Parks car. Russell’s return cheers friends. John Shirley and wife visit John A Link family in Bedford. School opens with Louis Sears as teacher. Henry Knights dwelling near completion. James Compton and wife move to Mitchell.
The committee of Leesville Lodge No 434 K P prepares resolutions on the death of Brother Knight J B Holliman. The group notes his passing, extends sympathy to his relatives, and hopes for a brighter hereafter. Resolutions are to be archived, shared with relatives and the county press, and the lodge charter to be draped for 30 days. Signed by Geo B Jackson EB L Berapont and R D Thompson.
Readers seeking rates times of trains and excursions are asked to write on a separate line and through connecting lines to D B SreEG Traveling Passenger Agent Terre Haute Ind for prompt attention to their matter.
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