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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1913
Page
3
The parcels post law offers local merchants new chances to reach distant customers. Mail order firms pay higher rates for 300 to 600 mile parcels whereas local delivery costs 14 cents for rural routes. Advertising in the newspaper could draw farm families to town shops and expand trade in outlying areas.
Madison woman recounts six year kidney pain and backache relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills. Mrs. Mary C. Scott of 411 West Third Street credits three boxes with restoring health and urges others with kidney trouble to ask for Dean's Kidney Pills, Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
Greensburg Indiana January 3 Henry Rohlfing a farmer southeast of Greensburg is in critical condition from blood poisoning after a slight hand scratch from a chicken ten days ago Amputation above the elbow was reported as the latest measure with slim hopes of saving his life Airship mail service across the Baltic is proposed to avoid winter ice blockades
A hurricane caused two deaths when signs fell and a person was blown from a train and drowned. A third person is missing, and weather-related wreckage injured several others. Property damage estimates reach a quarter of a million dollars as the semi tropical storm continues.
Acting President McClory of the Structural Iron Workers Union and Leo Mo Rappaport, general counsel, led labor officials in Chicago to direct raising bonds for 32 convicted dynamite conspirators. They said bonds would be furnished within days and to call on each local union to cover its own surety.
In New York on January 4 a funeral for a White House official drew the President and Cabinet members, hundreds of citizens and diplomats. The procession moved from the Episcopal cathedral to Central Station, then a special funeral train carried the body to Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Tarrytown for burial.
In Marion near Cedar Rapids Iowa an attempted jail delivery ends with Officer Charles Til Lin shot and killed and Officer John Cook shot in the head as Harvey Lee awaiting trial for safe blowing clashes with deputies. Dynamite blasts break a wall providing arms but prisoners remain contained. A patient wait to free others continues. Electric Bitters advertised with testimonial claims aiding health and strength for women.
Fourteen crew members aboard the Julia Luckenbach from Fort Tampa to Baltimore were drowned after the steamer was rammed in a gale in Chesapeake Bay. Seven rescued by the British steamer Indrakulka and are en route to Baltimore. Captain Gilbert and his wife are among the missing. the Luckenbach was an old freight ship of modest tonnage.
Representative William Wedemeyer of Michigan reportedly jumped from a Panama Canal vessel near the harbor while traveling home from Washington. The 64 year old congressman, a former Cincinnatus nominee, was said to be suffering mental strain after a recent election defeat. He was an Ann Arbor native serving his second term in the House.
Nathaniel S. Keith former Secretary and Treasurer Williams of the Cincinnati Trust Co. were indicted by the county Grand Jury on charges of misapplication of funds. George B. Cox served as president of the trust company.
John G Wooley former presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket announces in Battle Creek Michigan that he renounces allegiance to the Prohibition Party. He will continue temperance work, says Wooley, arguing the issue is lost but the fight for temperance remains. The piece also contains an abrupt ad urging Dr King Life Pills for health and vitality.
Two families, the Reimers and Evera, are left nearly wiped out after a passenger train at 50 mph struck a buggy in Denison on January 4, killing six and leaving one person dying.
Acting on advice from the Great Powers the Turkish and Balkan delegates postponed their meeting until Monday. The Turkish asked for the delay while Balkan envoys warned of breaking off negotiations, a step seen as mediation in Balkan struggles.
The Rev. Mary Mills of the Friend's church conducts a New Year revival at Milton with services led by Rev. Cham ness. In Indianapolis bound for the city, a colored man confessed to multiple hold ups this week and received a sentence of five to fourteen years. Evansville sees Frank Rust bound to the Vanderburgh grand jury on bail of fifty dollars for luring young girls out of state for immoral purposes. Winamac reports a quarrel among railroad workers in Monterey where John Hawkins, a colored man, shot foreman Raul Martin. Hawkins faces a 1000 bond and is bound over to court.
In Des Moines on January 3 yesterday twin boys arrived to Mr and Mrs John A Klemm at 1363 Twenty third street the Klemm secretary treasurer of Granite Brick Company notes the high cost of living remark while sharing cigars. On January 14 1912 another set of twins were born to the same couple now two seven pound boys complete the year with two seven pound sons born yesterday.
A Boston man lost his leg after an insect bite two years ago. Bucklen's Arnica Salve is advertised to kill poison and prevent inflammation. It claims to ease pain from burns, boils, ulcers, piles, eczema, and cuts. Available for 26 cents at Harper's drug store.
German capitalists back a thousand foot long airship designed to cross the Atlantic in two and a half days carrying over 200 passengers with a 100 crew. The project includes a private hangar site, a 415000 dollar cost, and safety features to prevent explosion and lightning damage. Prominent engineers praise the design as a practical breakthrough signaling a new era in aeronautics.
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph C Gibson who led the troops that hanged John Brown at Harpers Ferry died on his Verben a plantation Ain. He was seventy nine years old and had been an invalid for several years.
A kneecap fragment fractured while playing baseball traveled through George Hives of Philadelphia and lodged in his heart, causing the 15 year old’s death.
A fragmentary OCR passage discusses translating a Bulgarian poet Kyrill Voratop and others into a war song. It references themes of battle, misery, motherhood, and justice as lines urge action and perseverance. The text is garbled with many unreadable words and names.
Geore eerbuuer, 58, Mascoutah, visited the tariff office seeking a free license on his fifth wedding. Clerk refused without a fee. Mrs. Mary Miller, 64, noted as the fifth bride, argued the elder groom said a woman's counsel and her pies formed a combination beyond a man’s resistance.
A new school for training boys as waiters has been established in England connected with the Weetminster cookery school. Foreign trained waiters are finding work in England, and the initiative aims to attract English boys into the occupation.
Frank J. Cheney senior partner of the firm in Toledo swears to pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarrh not cured by Hann’s OaTs Ram Ouns. Notary public confirms oath dated December 6 1886. Hall's Catarrh Care advertised as blood and mucous system remedy with free tests sent from F J Ogdenay Co Toledo. Sold by all druggists. 750 Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
North Vernon Ind Jan 2 The state will try Henry Romine first for his alleged role in the murder of the McQuaid brothers at their home west of town on October 7 1912 The case will be called at Columbus February 38 and then sent on a change of venue Clarke and Tyler the other two men charged will be tried at a later term of court.
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