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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1882
Page
1
Kesreca shifts to Democrats as Kentucky towns elect locals favoring submission. The Submissionists are urged to accept, with both parties endorsing submission and the State Constitution backing it. The Indianapolis News notes lighter production and a less influential Republican resolutions committee compared to the Democrats.
The speaker notes Congress adjournment leaves little treasury funds but suggests local fairs could still flourish with existing advantages. He questions why Jefferson County cannot hold a fair while criticizing Republican leaders for boasting about saving the country from rum.
The question about submitting the amendment to a vote of the people will not be sent to any next legislature. By contrast, the question on amending the State Constitution may be submitted to every legislator multiple times. A party that guides a legislature should limit its instructions to measures legally before that body.
Joan Momallam, a Vandalia railroad conductor with 18 years of service, shot himself in his Indianapolis room after missing his 7 PM departure by 30 minutes. The 30 year old, who reportedly woke at 7:30, was famed for always being exact to the minute.
The text accuses local bosses of pressuring Garber to attack Simp son while the Majah shows readiness to surrender party control. It claims Lancaster exposure was blocked by bosses and notes Courier's unwillingness to shoulder a dishonest public act, depicting the Courier as reluctant yet blamed for the alleged misdeed.
A reader critiques the Indiana Republican club in Washington for endorsing Mr. Rubell’s methods of rating money for campaign funds. The writer argues party tax cuts are hypocritical if officials’ salaries are not reduced and if debt collected at elections funds party power. The piece warns the public to demand tax justice.
The New York Star and several papers attack Robeson and his allies while praising or condemning rival governors and party figures. Descriptions include calls for reform, warnings of a Democratic resurgence, and depictions of moral decline in Congress.
Mr Gam 5 Taylor compiles a county wide statistical survey for 1881 to be sent to the State department. It lists acres planted and yields for tobacco meadow hay clover and corn wheat oats barley and potatoes with totals for livestock including horses cattle hogs sheep and bees along with counts of deaths and other farm outputs.
Frank Lesiie's Sunday Magazine offers illustrated content and edifying features. Rev. Tal mage contributes essays and sermons while Marion Flarland threads a serial. readers await poems, sketches, and miscellany. Specimen copies priced at 25 cents, annual subscription 3 dollars, publisher address in New York.
The total semi annual apportionment by the County Authors to school corporations in the state is listed with figures for Congression Township revenue from towns, receipts from other counties totaling 52 288.54, common school revenue to townships 1 000 980.10, local tuition from taxation 378 222.51, liquor tax shares 8 810 244, and total township revenue 1 040 272. Ve.
The Indiana Republican State Convention at English’s Opera House in Indianapolis approves submitting constitutional amendments to voters. It honors Garfield and Lincoln, urges a special election, and backs tariff and civil service reforms while expressing sympathy for Irish brethren and praising Porter and Harrison.
Biographical sketches of Democratic candidates for Indiana state offices. James Myers born Clinton County Ohio 1836 served in the war and became a congressman. Hon James Rice of New Albany born 1843 known as a versatile leader. Treasurer candidate a farmer and businessman from Indianapolis. Attorney General candidate from Columbus Ky born 1835. Clerk of the Supreme Court candidate formerly Logansport editor. Superintendent of Public Instruction Don Walker Holcombe of Laporte born 28, educated at Harvard and Iowa. Supreme Judge First District candidate from Indiana with long public service background. Long profiles of several other nominees noting birthplaces, careers, and political lineage.
A humorous compendium of jokes and witticisms about lawyers sailors doctors thieves and the public. The lines poke fun at professions and society with puns about coal balloons potatoes onions sausages and shoes. A newspaper voice notes silly observations and punchlines in a breezy, period tone.
The piece praises Liebig Malt Extract for aiding debilitated individuals and certain chronic diseases while warning against treating it as a universal remedy. It notes public excitement and medical endorsement, yet cautions about imaginary illnesses and indirect factors in its perceived cures.
Dispatch from Hickman Kentucky reports the Golddust blew its boilers at 3 p m after leaving the wharf on the Mississippi Forty seven injured and seventeen missing as the vessel with about one hundred aboard was beached in an eddy Citizens aided cabin passengers crew and deck passengers and many injured were cared for in Holcombe s dry goods store Eighteen missing feared to have gone down in the wreck.
An aged advertisement urges that a cough cold or sore throat should be stopped and claims Brown's Bronchial Troches relieve asthma bronchitis coughs catarrh consumptive and throat diseases. It notes thirty years of physician recommendation and widespread use with public speakers and singers benefiting. Sold at twenty five cents a box.
Courier Journal notes Green Clay Smith a Civil War veteran and former congressman campaigning at Mt Sterling polls. He stands with Prohibition supporters handing ice cream to counter anti Prohibitionists as voters weigh temperance options.
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