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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1892
Page
8
The advertisement highlights silk umbrellas in red blue and brown with Dresden handles. Napkins include a large dinner napkin priced at 2.50 per dozen. Also shown are handsome pocket books and purses, a pocket book with a silver watch, woven down dusters, and a novelty pocket book with watch.
A jumble of small notices reports auctions and sales at local stores, marriages licensed in Chelsea, a burial at Springdale, a death from heart disease, and various community items. It also lists candy and fruit offerings and upcoming public notices from Jefferson county officials.
Local retailer announces a Christmas sale on cloaks reefers jackets and Russian coats in black and colors. Entire lot consigned from manufacturers at reduced rates with bargains for customers. Sale begins today and runs through Christmas.
A promotional bargain offers a lamp valued at $2.00 for just 99 cents. The deal emphasizes significant savings during the holiday sale period and highlights the item as a budget friendly home accessory.
The ad touts a beautiful parlor lamp priced at 99 cents offered by CHAS KAHN at his Queensware store located on 110 West Main Street.
Belle Hunt recalls a Christmas memory of a grandfather telling the tale of the shepherds in Bethlehem and the Star of the East. The speaker imagines the daisy fields, white snow, and a child’s awe at the nativity story, cherishing tenderness and wonder across time.
The article surveys Christmas customs across England Italy Germany Norway and the United States. It notes evergreen trees gift exchanges rusks and theater celebrations, with emphasis on child centered festivities and a warning against excessive gift giving diminishing the holiday spirit.
Advertisement claims a home treatment called Dr Haines Golden Specific cures drunkenness in ten days and is harmless with 43 page particulars free. It recommends administration in beer coffee tea or food and targets both moderate drinkers and alcoholics. Address Cincinnati Ohio 185 Race Street for details. A Louisville Courier-Journal note adds that boats under 100 tons need engineers and pilots but not licensed masters or mates.
The notice lists holiday items from Meyers and J Scott including knives forks and carving tools. An obituary note reports Ab Smith died of heart disease this afternoon and Mrs Smyth received the news with medical aid summoned. The Indiana Academy of Science will meet in Indianapolis December 28 and 29 with speakers Dr Coulter and Prof Stanley Coulter.
Hanover college’s junior class held its annual exhibition at the village Presbyterian church. Speeches covered economic causes of the French Revolution, the Anglo Saxon future, Lynch law causes, and municipal government defects, with scores of students from Indiana and Kentucky delivering praised orations.
A survey lists Astor and Vanderbilt heirs with fortunes of 40 to 100 million dollars, noting John D. Rockefeller at about 100 million and George Gould as a young heir. It compares American and European wealth, citing Rothschild and Krupp incomes, Paris and New York expenditures, and the United States national wealth estimates.
Hon. R. L. Gibson, late Louisiana senator, was buried in Lexington Kentucky after a funeral procession from the Gibson residence. The cortege included Brown Light Infantry State College guards and Confederate Veterans with 200 members, followed by a long line of carriages. A requiem mass at St. Pauls Cathedral concluded with an oration by Rev Father Barry praising the deceased’s life and service.
HoosierKinsville reports Minnie Tucker of Todd & Company died when a knife pierced her heart while crossing a fence. In New Jersey a man was ground to pieces after being struck by the Washington express near Jersey City. A crippled man burned in Maysville as a house fire consumed the building with all contents, rescue coming too late. Lane's Family Medicine advertises a daily laxative.
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