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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1915
Page
3
A 1915 report by Dean Brigga at Harvard criticizes widespread misspellings in American life. He notes executives and job applicants who misspell words, including "speech," undermine perceived competence. The piece recalls old spelling bees and suggests no shortcut beats steady practice.
Dr Harry Plotz of Mt Sinai Hospital announced to the New York Pathological Society a potential antityphus vaccine using a germ named bacillus typhis exanthematus by Dr William H Welch of Johns Hopkins. The 25 year old researcher traced the typhus germ to the fever behind flies and battlefield outbreaks and urged rapid development amid Serbia's outbreak.
One hundred thousand workers on 1009 buildings are idle after 13900 carpenters were locked out over wage terms. Buildings total 20.9 million dollars, weekly wage losses about 3 million, carpenters seek 70 cents per hour while 67 cents offered and 65 cents current rate. The Governor has summoned the state arbitration board.
Large crowds packed the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco on February 20 as President Wilson pressed the opening button. Attendance has remained high, the iconic pavilions and gardens buzz with activity, signaling a strong debut for the fair.
Reports say Britain weighs a complete ban on alcohol in England and Scotland as Russia enforces abstinence and France tightens absinth controls. King George drinks only ginger ale, while Lord Kitchener and others have banished liquor from their homes as nations move toward total prohibition.
On motion by Brandeis for the treasury department the case of Riggs National Bank against Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Wil/lama is postponed until May 12. The temporary restraining order blocking fines by the comptroller is continued.
The report notes Panama Canal tolls totaling about 2.13 million dollars with a discrepancy showing 2,126,896 dollars referenced by the chamber. It states about 2 million would cover a 3 percent return on investment and discusses profitability and official estimates.
Fragmentary OCR text appears to reference a state calling for an advance portion of a tax or funds, with a figure of £500,000 and a person named Jane settling. The legibility is too low to extract clear entities, dates, or a coherent event.
Terre Haute April 15 Dennis Shea resigns as Vigo county sheriff and his brother John Shea is elected his successor by the county commissioners. The position carries an annual salary of 315000 dollars.
A strike of 16 590 carpenters starts tonight in Chicago after talks between the union and employers fail to resolve wage disputes. The notice appears amid scattered references to local officials and church work, with unrelated phrases following.
Apolo Riward Coulter was charged with writing bad checks to ten merchants with help from his two young daughters. He received a sentence of two to fourteen years at Jeffersonville Reformatory. The daughters aged ten and fifteen will be cared for by the Juvenile Court as their mother is dead. Bedford contractor G Sherman Jones is deemed sane. In 1910 Jones ran as Socialist candidate for secretary of state. Gosport Mrs Culla J Wayhinger, state president of the WCTU, lectured to the union.
August H Frederick elected president of the St Louis board of aldermen faces a first degree forgery indictment over a fraudulent deed of trust sold to Mrs Anna Weinheimer for 3500 dollars. He says he will resign and posted 10000 dollar bond.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as free of mercury and effective when taken internally. It warns against remedies from unreliable physicians and urges purchasing the genuine product through druggists with a price of 75 cents per bottle. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Grand Duke Nicholas demands mobilization to curb vodka revenue loss as Britain contemplates martial law to close bars and distilleries. The piece notes high UK liquor consumption, labor unrest in shipyards, and rising alcoholism mortality, linking policy to war needs and society impact.
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