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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1892
Page
2
January 1 items report Capt O'Donnell thanks readers for flowers, local deaths and injuries, a prisoner found dead in Jeffersonville cell, thefts from a butcher shop, railway talks, lodge officers elected, church school entertainments, a gun accident near Moorefield, and general commerce notes.
A six year old girl Anna Dodge was found in a drifting boat near the Point this morning by fisherman Isaac Peters. She said she is Oscar Dodge’s daughter from five miles up river. The rope broke and the boat floated away. she was unharmed and amused when located.
A collage of notices and brief items includes deaths in Hanover and Terre Haute, marriages in Madison and North Vernon, a school reopening delay, and local road and sidewalk concerns. Reports on trades, arrests, and civic events anchor the day’s small-town news from Indiana.
The M and M Club endorses Allison Shafer Co as the railroad builder and asks prosecutors to drop the suit to ease construction. Jefferson County Democrats select delegates for a January Jeffersonville meeting to choose a state committeeman. Violet Demaree, 18, sent $50 to Dargus Penn and vanished with him, leaving her wealthy father worried.
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