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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1891
Page
8
A local advertisement lists price cuts on dress fabrics and ginghams. 12 percent ginghams drop from 12 to 10 cents and 25 cent fabrics fall to 18 or 15 cents respectively. Challies and half wool pieces also see new lower prices.
Reports note forty six travelers on the morning train while industry expands with six hundred thousand dollar cars being built at Jeffersonville for the Pennsylvania lines. Sugar shipments arrive, licenses issued for marriage, and local events span fairs, schools, races, and parish notices with multiple named places and people.
Today marks the start of a special clearance sale on summer goods remnants and odds and ends. All remnants and odd pieces are on one counter and offered at half price to close out before fall stock arrives. Bargains cover embroideries laces shirtings white goods pongees and other departments.
A Beech Grove Herald report tours the fair grounds describing lush sods, shade trees, and orderly grounds. Managers are praised for cleaning and embellishing the site with 96 box stalls and 26 new ones, 20 hog pens, cattle stalls, free seating, and updated amphitheatre as preparations surge for next week's County Fair.
A quoted exchange extols practical knowledge and hard work as the chief credentials, noting that capable men rise to leadership whether in good times or on a desert island. It contrasts initiative with fatalism and urges readiness, while a county epidemic note mentions stockpiling Chamberlain’s Colic Diarrhoea Remedy during last summer’s flux.
A narrator longs for a single magical tree containing all wood types and scents. He imagines planting it in his garden flat, tending it with care, and watering its roots with wine, expressing whimsy and bedtime fantasy.
J R Cravens at 226 East Main Street promotes choice soup and lunch available around the clock. Ice cream and fruits offered for picnics and festivals at reasonable prices. Call for details.
New Park Theatre led by Mr. Al Stinson plans a Monday opening at Odd Fellows Hall with Mack and Lorraine of Primrose and West, Harry Pink the strong man, and famed balladists Pink Melton and Hanley. The sketch A Cure for the Blues will be shown. the troupe promises comedic fare and a lighter show. Travel note urges tourists to use the Great Rock Island Route from Chicago to Colorado Springs via Sleepers and Chair Cars, a direct northern path avoiding Denver delays.
Madison society youths adopt deep ultramarine full suits as a bold color statement. The trend may contrast with lighter face powdering among peers, suggesting a deliberate emphasis on color over traditional facial grooming.
Public health advocates urge strict penalties for ammonia and alum adulteration in baking powders. They note New York Illinois and Minnesota have acted and call for nationwide misdemeanor status. Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder is promoted as pure and superior for forty years.
Mr Will Shannon, nine years a pupil at the Indianapolis Institute for the Blind, spent the vacation at his Hanover home. A Monday lawn party on the college campus celebrated his honor with a large attendance and musical selections. He lost sight at age eleven from a gun accident and is now twenty two, to graduate next year and study music in Europe for a potential concert career.
Hon F P Randall ex mayor of Ft Wayne says he possesses Agava Americana, a century plant from Mexico that bloomed in Indiana after 42 years in his care. The 23 foot plant bears 25 branches with about 150 blossoms each as it nears maturity before eventual death.
A white community reports a wholesale poisoning attempt at a Clark county site near John Harris’s home. The Fountain Parker family fell ill after drinking, with doctors saving them. White powder found in the pump is believed to be the poison, and locals suspect a colored colony in enmity with the Parkers.
Classified item offers a good farm and family horse for sale or trade. Interested buyers should apply at the Herald office.
Editor’s genteel description of dainty feet in fairy boots becomes a comic misprint describing dirty feet and ferry boats. The anecdote humorously notes the misreading by a careless compositor. Also mentions an unwary pair named Jim and Slick Joe involved in a courting scene with Crow, Chapman, Crow on the Ohio.
A playful verse traces Castoria as a constant remedy from infancy to motherhood. The speaker notes how Castoria was used when baby sick and again for children and even through stages of growth. The piece echoes a nostalgic trust in a single remedy across generations.
A local notice invites readers to obtain a pack of high quality playing cards by sending fifteen cents in postage to P. B. Eustis acting as General Passenger Agent for the B B&G and EB lines in Chicago. The item is dated July 2 and appears as a brief promotional notice.
Idaville Indiana residents including Postmaster Wm Timmons farmer John Leslie and hardware merchant J W Gardner praise Electric Bitters for kidney and liver relief strength and appetite. The tonic is sold for 50 cents a bottle at J E C F Harpar Drug.
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