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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1891
Page
5
Numerous items report local and regional happenings from Jeffersonville and surrounding counties. Highlights include deaths, licensures, forthcoming newspaper launch, notable visitors, court matters, church and school events, property changes, and community concerns about sidewalks and public works. Anarchic humor and a fraud alert pepper the page.
An emissary from a Madison business visited a rival store to compare prices. He found items priced about 50 percent lower, while clerks later restored higher prices, leaving the spy perplexed by the rival’s cut price strategy.
Numerous local items cover tax payments and court activity, marriages, deaths, and social events. Notable entries include T. J. Francisco shipping pork to Cincinnati, new deputy prosecutor Geo W. Pleasants, weddings of T. M. Powell with Belle Cayton and Richard N. Hall with Indiana Taylor, deaths in Macedonia and Smyrna areas, and a reform school anniversary noting growth and no scandals. The Democratic City Central Committee meets to organize polling and sample ballots for upcoming elections.
Early this morning at the Pan-Mandle depot area near WM. Monroe's residence a man named WM Monroe was found dying after drinking arsenic saying no one cared for him. He died at 7 am leaving a note on a wrecked life while his wife was away in Indianapolis and his step-children had fled during threats to harm himself. He was a former railway engineer and had lost a leg in a prior accident. He and his wife had separated six weeks earlier and he drank heavily since. The piece includes a long poem and lines attributed to Alfred de Musset.
An old advertisement urges buyers to avoid druggist cough syrups and insist on Kemp's Balsam for throat and lungs claiming quicker cough and cold relief. It markets large bottles priced 50 cents and one dollar and notes availability at druggists.
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