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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1921
Page
2
Madison county and surrounding area residents are listed with visits marriages and illnesses. News covers weddings Warner J Wheeler and Frances Stackhouse Clark county, local travel to Cleveland and Cedar Cliff, World War I casualty Walter Land’s burial, and medical cases including James Crozier and Denny.
Relatives in Madison receive word of the marriage of Miss Bertha Birck to Mr. Earl Schrapps of Great Falls Montana. The ceremony occurred August 1 at a Laurel Catholic church with only a sister and brother as attendants. The couple planned a wedding trip then will reside at 913 Fourth Avenue Great Falls after September 1.
Amander Faught a farmer on the Graham road north of Madison shot his wife three times with a .32 revolver then killed himself on the second floor of the Faught home. Mrs Faught survived but with serious injuries while Faught died instantly. Neighbors and doctors responded as authorities began investigations. The body was moved to Schneider's undertaking and funeral plans not yet set.
The term balance of power describes a principle preventing any single nation from dominating others and endangering independence. It recalls ancient Greece with Athens Sparta and Thebes and rival states, but its role has faded since the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century.
In early chemistry a chemist named Brand Iu Teze prepared small quantities of phosphorus from bones. The wondrous substance burned with light without seeming to burn itself, seen as an emblem of mystical discovery. The event resembled the later 250 year gap before radium’s glow captivated science.
Madison reports Misses Sarah McCloskey and Mary May from Columbus attend Chautauqua with Mr and Mrs Louis P Scheik on Mulberry Street. Local visits include John Holcraft in Indianapolis, Miss Mary Miller returning to Cincinnati, Anna Marquiss returning to Louisville, and Howard Hitz visiting his wife here. Sheriff Dihammer arrests James Righthouse of Clark County for assault with a $500 bond. case set for October circuit court. A Bureau of Census report cites Indiana illiteracy at 4.0 percent overall and 34 percent for native whites ten and older.
Mrs. John C. White died suddenly at 12:30 last night in her home above Mr. White's store at 114 West Main Street after seven years of nervous trouble. She was 66 and lived in this city all her life. Survived by husband Walter White of Pittsburgh and stepchildren J Will White of Los Angeles and Stella Whaley of Boston, plus three sisters and two brothers. Funeral details not listed.
One curious point shown to insurance tables is that organic diseases frequent in middle life now develop five to ten years later than fifty years ago. Medical science has lengthened life, but preventive science has done more. Zymotic diseases are being conquered by better water, drainage and housing.
The text recalls fountain pens gaining popularity in the 1880s while free British patents date to 1800. It also mentions a 1600 book referencing fountain pens.
An agitated Havana crowd gathers after a cab driver places a crude coconut-eyed effigy at a aristocratic doorway near the Malecon. Spectators, including Haitians and mulattoes, whisper fear of voodoo and the evil eye as authorities keep sidewalks clear before dawn reveals the figure gone.
Fort Myers forms a patriotic society named the Order of Loyal Dads led by founder Sheldon Foote. It aims to admit fathers of service members from the Spanish American War onward and seeks affiliation with groups like the American Legion. The group emphasizes constitutional adherence and peace through patriotism with readiness to use force if needed.
July scene as Mary Balough witnesses her parents lethal quarrel. Walmer Balough allegedly accuses Mary Balough at a Sunday picnic over drinking. The wife seizes a butcher knife and stabs him three times, killing him. she is left unconscious. The 13 year old daughter Mary Balough describes the deadly struggle.
At St Paul, Mary Johnson begged to open the coffin of the unknown soldier. The body is her son George L. Johnson, a disabled veteran killed while en route to a job secured through the American Legion. His remains lay unclaimed in the morgue.
The 1920 census shows 68,900,876 males and 51,810,244 females in the United States, a male to female ratio of 104.6 to 100. The District of Columbia has the largest female excess, and western states record the highest male excess with Nevada at 148.4 to 100. Eastern states generally have lower ratios.
Army headquarters announces plans to form a railway artillery battalion and to establish a new fort guarding Pearl Harbor. Twelve inch mortars will be moved by the Oahu rail network with spur lines to reach coastal areas quickly. Mortars have a 15000 yard range.
The Bear Butte artesian well, struck just north of the Black Hills, is described as the greatest on the American continent. It now flows wildly, threatening to exceed control as crews try to cap it. Initial flow was about 50,000 barrels daily, carving deep channels in an eighty acre field and risking land damage.
A tired woman told attorney W. J. Burke at the Kansas City free legal aid bureau that her unemployed plumber husband cut the tops off her silk stockings to wear as socks for a dance. She was advised to obtain a nonsupport warrant.
Archaeologists led by the School of American Research in Santa Fe report a vast 1000-room apartment complex dating back about 1000 years. The civilization, with 10,000 inhabitants and 3,000 acres cultivated, left no burial sites found, suggesting a mid exodus as sands exposed the two city square sized structure built with reinforced walls and layered cedar and earth floors.
Sydney dispatches report Dr Cope leading a British Antarctic expedition to a newly found continent beyond Terra del Fuego rich in oils minerals and foil. The land lies in an exceptionally harsh ice area with giant glaciers and no inhabitants, reached January 12 on Graham's Land west coast.
Shanghai M Wilden the French consul general recommended decorating Chinese and foreign crew members of the Monteagle of the Canadian Ocean Pacific services for heroism in saving 66 people from the Haientien after it struck rocks near Hongkong. The Haientien with rice sank April 8 as rescuers faced a rising storm and raced in lifeboats to save all but four Chinese who drowned.
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