Portraits of presidential candidates and local notes from New Albany area
The issue notes August 13 events in Calloway and Jeffersonville including pensions granted to Se Kimball G. Watson and Charles W. Wycoff, wheat received by the W. Trow Company, hotel activities, a burial in Jeffersonville, and construction contracts for Madison Gas. It also covers local fairs preparations, a lawsuit by William Kelbe against the K of P, political conventions, horse racing entries, a child’s accident, and various regional personal updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calloway
Se Kimball
The Hyronimus A Queer Creature Captured Near Jeffersonville
Joe Banks, a Tow Head Island fisherman, captured a two foot long creature near Jeffersonville that resembles an alligator with a puppy like head. It has yellow spots the size of twenty dollar gold pieces four legs and rattles on its tail. Local island residents fear the old ones may hibernate nearby and experts identify the animal as a byronimus that spawns every twelve years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffersonville
Joe Banks
Tow Head Island
Madison presses for prompter mail service
M. M. Club chairman Crozier writes to the Post Office Department urging an early morning inbound mail and a late outbound mail for Madison to match larger neighboring cities. Committees from the HERALD met at the Madison Hotel to begin work, detailing visits to towns, Madison tasks, and a statistical report to authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. & M. Club
Crozier
Post Office Department
Madison
Herald
J.K. Weyer
James Hargan
G. K. Lodge
A. C. Greiner
8. E. Leland
David S. Barmore
Patrick Wade
Louis Holwager
S. M. Strader
J.C. Abbott
Department
M. UC
Thomas Graham
John Schofield
Edward Marks
James Stewart
Hygienic and Medicinal Mouth Treatment Specialty
Dr. Goove, dentist at 1254 EB Main St Madison, promotes hygienic and medicinal mouth care as a specialty. He emphasizes thirty five years of trusted service, reasonable rates for all, and prioritizes prevention over costly procedures. He invites patients to judge his competence by his steady record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Goove
Main St
Madison, Lodauglad
Wtf
Two lovelorn suitors outwitted by common sense and medicine
A tale from a New York World column retells two Connecticut suitors scheming to win a girl. One poisons himself with laudanum to regain favor, another tries to intoxicate the rival, but the girl uses mustard and a doctor to halt the ploy. The piece exults rational wit over romance and counsels fish as a safer pursuit. It closes with farm news and a sales pitch for Simmons Liver Regulator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
New York World
Deputy camp meeting crowds and city happenings in Madison
The piece notes 8000 people at Deputy camp meetings in Madison August and details city activity from rail and river traffic to sermons by Rev E L Dolph and Rev A R Beach. It records the J M I depot fire at North Vernon, livestock trains from North Vernon fair, and a Scott County Fair at Scottsburg with P C C C St L line fare. It includes a letter from Fren Hanrrrr defending water works salaries and actions on the council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezekiel Miller
Springdale Cemetery
North Vernon
E. L. Dolph
Lawrenceburg
Gospel Temperance Rooms
Beech Grove
Trinity Church
North Vernon Fair
Association
A. R. Beach
North Madison
Trinity
Tinsley
Scott County Fair Associaton
Scottsburgn
St. L
Scottsburg
Charles David
Warsaw Independent
Horn
Jefferson Street
Main
Court House Yard
Jefferson
Terrell
Bedford
Fred Harper replies to councilman Johnson
In the August city council proceedings Fred Harper objects to Charles R. Johnson’s remarks about reformers Eckel Harper and others. He cites alleged high pay and trustees’ salaries, arguing the insult is especially offensive when uttered in official council action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eckel
Harper
William B. Sullivan
Johnson
Wm. Middleton
National Branch Bank
Merald
Eckel Harper
Charles R. Johnson
Obituary notices for J W Littlejohn Emma Poindexter and Joshua McCauley
Deaths remove longtime Jefferson county pioneer J W Littlejohn aged 84 after a retirement from business. Funeral at Mulberry Street home with interment at Springdale. Emma Poindexter dies at 38, with husband Fountain Poindexter and children. funeral and funeral procession to Jeffersonville. Joshua McCauley widow dies at 72 in North Madison. funeral at home followed by burial in Fairmount cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Littlejohn
Jefferson County
Old Citizens’ Club
Old Third Street
Wildey
Mulberry Street
Reys, Tinsley and
Grubbs
Springdale Cemetery
Tinsley
Dolph
Barnard
Emma Poindexter
James Willey
Jeffersonville
Frank Wells
Elmer Scott
George Holmes
Joseph Nichols
Fred Glass
Green Johnson
Walnut Hill Cemetery
Tevis
East Chestnut Street
Fountain Poindexter
Citizens’ National Bank
Joshua McCauley
North Madison
Owen County
Madison
Rail line saved by 200 workers amid Danquagmire near Palmer
In Palmer Lake County 200 railroad workers battle a widening quagmire to save a crucial track. A bridge eight feet high has vanished and trains crossed on trestles may be abandoned as dirt fills the bottomless pit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vacparaiso
Ind
Palmer
Lake County
Chicago and Erie Railroad
Wreck Injures Fourteen on Knights Templar Train
A nine car Knights Templar special from Denver to Chicago derailed near Cuixton Indiana as a sleeper rolled down a twenty foot embankment and two others left the track. Fourteen hurt none fatally. Reuben Bresell of Hazleton Pa badly injured. Mrs. Rhodes of South Bethlehem Pa and Bresell treated at Clinton. Local doctors aided the injured on board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuixton
Knights Templar
Denver
City
Chicago
Northwestern
Reuben Bresell
Hazleton
Lehigh Valley Road
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Codding
Charles Rhodes
South
Bethlehem
Hazelton
Rhodes
Bresell
Clinton
Z. H. Everhart
Easton
Samuel Wells
Stanhope
S. Cook
Newton
N.J
L. C. de Hart
Harry Haines
W. H. Obert
Lehighton
Miss Wells
N. J
C. K E. Brankham
J W. Fitz
One Woman Dead in Gas Stove Explosion At Folks Mills
Mrs. Jacob Humbird died from severe burns after a gasoline stove exploded at Folks Mills near Cumberland Maryland. Daughter Miss Sue and bystander James George were badly burned while trying to help. Mrs Humbird died in great agony between 4 and 5 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Folks’ Mills
Here
Jacob Humbird
Miss Sue
James George
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. Trow Company
Mary L. Hatcher
Hotel de Haugland
Wm. Kelbe
K. of P
Court House
William Newhouse
New Albany Ledger
Frank Bott
East Second Street
Panhandle
Switzerland County
Marion
Estella Miller
New York State
Ernst Body
Egypt Bottom
M. M. Thompson
A. M.E
Indianapolis
Joe Brindeil
Utica
Langesang Creek
George Fislar
Mr. Fislar
Brownstown
Hyronimus
Sid Conger
Flat Rock
Oxford
Shropshire
Columbus
Peoria
Ill
St. Louis
England
Simmons
Daniel E. Monroe
Saluda
Louisville
Vevay
John Danner
Fred Harper
Man Johnson
Jaarep We
Lirkesoren
Ema Poindexter
State . Dispatches
Indiana
James Mahaffey
Converse
Roscoe Kemple
Mahaffey
Kemple
Logansport
S. B. Patterson
S. M. Velsey
Mantoy
Moses Bradford
Muncie
Tie
Baum
Anderson
J. F. McClure
County Central Committee
John H. Terhune
McClure
Pougghreepsig
N. Y
Margaret van Fradenburg
Red Hook
Duchess County
Tre
Courier-Journal
Illinois
PROM
Kansasity
St. Joseph
St. Paul and Minnepolis
Pullman Palace
Pacific Coast
Nebraska
Colorado
Black Hills
A. C. Dawes
Avent
Phaetous
Escher & Richert
J. D. Farran
West Main Street
Mnnet Tre & Co
True & CO
Augusta
Maine
United Groceries
Pepe
eXpress OF
A. Karpen & CO
Quincy Street
Tales From
New York Society
Town Toric
Town ‘Torics
Tories
Faw Club
West Zui Street
N.Y
Forshees McMakin
Cincinnati
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