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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
2
Local Madison edition notes publication details for Thea’s Herald Company. Rates listed at $1.00 per year in advance and the issue date December 6 with office at Main Street Madison, Indiana.
Miss Lilian Kremer, Mrs Anna Kremer, and Miss Rosina Kremer travel to Indianapolis to visit relatives. Mrs Edward Slattery remains ill in Brockton but improving. The report lists weddings, baptisms, and community notices, including Red Men degree conferments and members serving in the armed forces, with local names and affiliations.
The text records overlapping items including a shooting incident, a jail detention, and a murder trial. It notes a suspect in custody after an arrest yesterday, with likely arraignment today. It also mentions a jury adjournment and Russia's coal figures from last year.
The article notes Norway's recent concrete ship experiments influencing Canadian plans. In Montreal a concrete vessel was conceived and built amid material shortages, now reportedly launched and sliding down the ways. Concrete ships promise ocean service and resilience to submarine threats, with similar projects underway in Canada and the United States.
Readable lines describe a unit page with names and scattered phrases about decay and wake. The legible content mentions individuals like Leap and Matt and references to an army representation, but the text is garbled with missing words and misreads.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Barber and Wayne among unclear terms. No coherent event or details establish a verifiable news item, names, or places for a concrete card.
Watson is named Chef Coat fler of the army medical corps, becoming the highest ranking woman in Great Britain. She oversees thousands of women behind the front lines in France. A pioneer physician from Edinburgh University, she helped German captors by leaping from a speeding train and evading pursuit for 72 days. Lt Patrick O'Brien of the British Flying Corps has escaped to London from Germany.
The National Security League launches a broad wartime education effort with 105,009 members and 280 branches nationwide. It aims to awaken public understanding of the war's meaning and citizens' duties, spanning 24 states and reaching every county and bankvent in the country.
Lloyd Taylor of the National Security League proposes using the selective draft to relieve farm labor shortages. He urges Farm Bureaus in states to train drafted workers for food production and notes the labor outlook grows sharper next spring. Taylor helped organize New York City Preparedness Parade and pushed for Universal Military Training with 1 million signatures.
The article describes a nationwide campaign organized with the New York State Council of Defense to spread patriotic oratory through every county. Educational Director Prof. Robert McNutt McElroy of Princeton will lead a year long effort, with a Speakers Training Camp at Chautauqua that has formed associations in 24 states. The aim is to build robust American support for vigorous wartime prosecution and sacrifice. It notes Spain has one telephone for every 571 people.
The funeral of the late Lake Dally occurred this morning in the Yale lock room at Michaels Church. Rev. M L. Guthneck led the Requiem High Mass and burial rites. Interment followed in the Catholic cemetery at North Madison with pallbearers including Tom Cavanaugh, Mike Cavanaugh, Harvey Conner, Will Jones, Joeb Lucht, Misses Smith.
The text lists remedies and symptoms including fevers inflammation worms coughs and headaches. It references medicines and prices with scattered patient observations. The fragmentary nature limits precise events but shows a 19th or early 20th century medical catalog tone.
A number of foreign clergymen have been arrested and sent out of Mexico along with other persons classed as undesirables, an announcement from Mexico said yesterday.
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