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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1915
Page
5
Madison July 28 dispatch lists licenses issued including Charles P Quinn to Helen E Lavelle and other local nuptial notices. It notes visitors and residents moving through town, civic roles, a county road project, and letters from veterans in Asbury Park seeking reunion attendance.
A large gathering witnessed the 5 o'clock ceremony of Charles Quinn and Helen Lavelle at St Michael’s with Rev Father Guthneck officiating. The couple’s relatives included James Quinn and Mrs Lee Latham among distant guests, and they will reside on Baltimore Street with Mrs Quinn’s family.
The ad claims health relies on digestion and regular bowel movements and promises a full bowel movement next morning by taking one Dr King's New Life Pill at night. It asserts improved appetite and digestion and urges trying the product tonight from any druggist.
A brief ad copy urges readers to try Mrs Austin's Bag Pane Cake, claiming it cures plain snacking and pleases shoppers at local grocers. The note emphasizes widespread availability.
Peter Feldkamp a prisoner in Wayne County Jail serving seven years for counterfeiting says a chemical method he developed could end US paper money fraud. The photographer and chemist claims his process colors and seals currency so it cannot be bleached or replicated and would bar future counterfeiters from producing valid notes. He offered the Treasury Secretary a trade for liberty and a treasury job.
Madison items report Lucy Cols granted a 312 per month pension. Emma Stanley leaves for Petoskey Michigan. Ervin E. Jones appointed Moorefield Postmaster. Band engaged for Sanders Kentucky fair August 11 12 13 14. Excursion planned by Madison Lodge Elks August 16. Several residents visit family and recoveries noted. Illinois and Indiana movements, deaths, and local incidents included. A boy narrowly avoids an auto collision at Main and Mulberry.
Funeral services for Mrs Margaret R Scott were conducted this afternoon at her East Third Street home by Rev A S Hartley and Rev J W Turner. A large crowd attended with many floral offerings. Burial followed at Rykers Ridge Cemetery with pallbearers listed. Word arrived of Margaret Jewell death on July 24, a Madison St Lawrence Macg., sister of Mrs Samuel Grossman and mother of Ernest and Paul Jewell.
Guy R. Vickery of Carrollton Kentucky and Mise Jeanette E. Welle of Vevay were married at 2:30 pm by Rev. F. P. Smith after obtaining a license from Clerk Prewatt. They left for Indianapolis on a brief wedding trip and will reside in Carrollton. Attending were Mrs. Mart Rayl of Vevay and Mr. Andrew Sheeta. The bride is the daughter of Charles H. Wella of Vevay and the groom, son of John H. Vickery of Carrollton, formerly a Mundt candy traveling salesman and now a Louisville candy representative.
The Agriculture Department will send a specialized egg and poultry refrigeration car to Madison Indiana on August 12 1915 directed by H A McAleer and three assistants. Shippers of eggs and poultry can learn dressing packing chilling and testing methods for long distant markets. Demonstrations are free and the car showcases a complete modern poultry refrigerating plant with its own gasoline engine.
The No 3 fire engine repaired at Ahrens shops Cincinnati tested on Broadway and performed well. A substitute engine was taken to the river for the mailboat shipment but an accident damaged the gang plank causing the engine to drop into the river. no upset occurred and it was retrieved. Cincinnati crew to handle tonight.
Emma H. Samuels and husband deed property in the city to Mayme Hoffetadt Adee for private consideration. Nellie Quinn transfers city property to Roy W. McCauley and wife for private consideration.
A short, witty reflection notes that people wish to see themselves as others see them but warn that if the mirror were to reveal truth they might destroy it. The piece plays on social perception with a humorous twist.
A quoted dialogue from a Philadelphia Ledger snippet shows a couple negotiating who walks the baby, each accepting half of the responsibility and one half crying. The exchange highlights shared parenting duties in a domestic moment.
The bubonic plague spreads along established travel routes as populations rise within the British empire. Sugar subsidies continue in Formosa, shaping economic policy and regional agriculture during the period.
The executor named in the late Bridget Howley will has qualified before the Jefferson Circuit Court Clerk. The estate is declared solvent. Madison Safe Deposit & Trust Co. is identified as executor dated July 19 1915. July 22 1915.
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