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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1915
Page
4
The sporting pages discuss minor leagues facing funding woes due to local trade and overexpansion. In moderate towns, audiences rise yet sustaining teams requires strong clubs and fair play, with managers earning trust to finish seasons with financial balance.
Militon Kentucky edition notes peach trees in full bloom with good prospects. Community items include visits by Mrs Oliver Green and family from Middletown Indiana, a marriage in Madison, and local social news. Also discusses eye physiology and owl color perception with references to Philadelphia Record.
Australia possesses 1,172 steam units and 3 ton tile marine assets, details unclear from the fragment but indicating a catalog of maritime equipment and potentially industrial resources.
Local brief lists residents traveling to Indianapolis Covington Carrollton and Cincinnati for visits and train travelers to New Albany Louisville and Lexington. Births, educational appointments, church presbytery meetings and a drowns body search are noted along with remarks on a beaten Madisonian and planned steamer excursions and building work in Louisville.
Local notes from Dupont and Marble Valley list visits, calls, and moves by residents and families. Names include Lizzie Thomas, Belle Thomas, Lizzie Jordan, Emma Jordan, Maggie Oshier, Eugene Wildman, Lester Wildman, Bessie Wildman, Megsars, Clarence Wildman, Joe Manning, Sim Sheldon, Will Dilk, Tom Burley, Mae Emmel, Jack Thompson, Allison McClellan, and others. A funeral marks S. L. Cripe’s death, with many trips to Madison, Milan, Shirley, and Middlefork noted during the period.
Hanover Indiana April 19 Unusual interest shown by Hanover College students in building a cinder track on Woods Field for the I C A L meet scheduled May 22 under Coach Geo L Rider students largely carry on the work and fund raising. Completion is expected in a week. Local enthusiasm runs high for the first meet ever held at Hanover.
The Department of Agriculture releases a four part study based on letters from 2,241 farm wives across the United States. It portrays overwork unmet needs and calls for better support, education, and policy to aid rural women.
The page lists national and American league standings with teams such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St Louis, Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit and Washington. It also includes American Association and Federal League results, plus dense market tables for oats hay and cattle with price ranges and receipts. The block ends with hogs and pigs pricing and general market activity.
Private Mooney sixty in a British convalescent hospital has fifty one relatives in the army including four of his nine test. Take The Herald.
Readable entries list prices for Perfection cheese Bran Meal Wheat and other commodities. Quotations include live poultry butter eggs and fowl with various animal categories and weights.
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