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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1892
Page
3
Readable notices cover local taxes climate and time standards. Includes Vevay Dramatic Club play, gas and street railway debates, pension for Green, and small items on Madison gas case and Hanover College donors. Also notes sleighing, an unfortunate accident, and civic projects in Seymour and Shelbyville.
The suit for 2000 damages was continued before Special Judge Korbly. Evidence closed at 1030 with arguments by M R Sulzer for the plaintiff Walker and Allison for the defendant. Perry E Bear spoke for the plaintiff. Jury retired at 3 and returned verdict at 4 for Royce, amount 75 dollars.
Dr. Young receives from Mr. Thomas Lopp a valuable Alaska collection of ores rocks and implements totaling about one hundred specimens brought by a mission worker who is an 1888 alumnus. A large vacation shipment to the college lab adds minerals Bohemian glassware worth five hundred dollars. Prof J A Adair returns from Mammoth and Wyandotte caves with a rich geological collection and plans more specimens. Meanwhile the U S Literary Society faces a stalemate as the faculty bars use of the hall pending a compromise.
The Sioux Falls Divorce Court faces heavy caseloads and delays as a North Dakota newspaper promotes the region as a favorable divorce colony. Features range from cultural notes on Burmese women to a Rhode Island skunk-raiser and a Japanese medical proverb, plus a funeral notice for David Mercer of Smyrna township.
Cure for chronic sore eye and skin ailments including salt rheum scald head eczema prairie scratches fever sores and sores on nipples and piles. Cooling soothing relief claimed with hundreds of cures after other treatments failed. 25 and 60 cent boxes offered by local dealers.
The piece notes colored men threatening to burn Elwood, plans to enlarge Vincennes electric light plant, and local incidents from January. It lists deaths including Joseph Skillen in Richmond, and Eliza Colgate near Madison with a detailed obituary. Also mentions sanatoriums, a new history project for New Albany, and various civic notes.
A female lecturer on women's rights taunts the audience asking if any man has shared household duties. A shy man in the back, husband of the speaker, rises to admit he does such tasks, including lighting, cooking, cleaning, and mending.
Circuit Court opens at 10 with Judge Friedley on the bench. Notice given of a future argument for a new trial in Royce vs Welch. Judge Korbly to hear the argument. Several minor state cases carried on the docket are disposed of.
The body of Mrs Hannah Gibson was discovered by her son yesterday morning at her Providence area residence. She lived alone. entry was gained by lifting a window. Death was due to heart disease. Mrs Gibson was a respected widow of James Gibson with a grown family surviving.
Washindoy January 16 The House Committee on Rivers and Harbors met and started drafting the river and harbor appropriation bill beginning with Maine and will study states by sections starting with New England. Sheriff Oscar Williamson of Switzerland County pursues order laws as a theft suspect Marsh from Markland fled after looting a skiff and goods near Lamb. he was shot in the hip by the sheriff and captured for a preliminary hearing in Vevay.
A public notice cautions against mercury containing ointments for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. The medicine is described as mercury free and taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
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