Madison area items mix court, clubs, and society notes
A busy Madison page covers a week of local news. Furniture plant closure for repairs. Albert Gall’s annual report. J. H. Reed visiting Saluda. M. and M. Club committee news. a predicted cold wave and sledding fun. Judge Friedley to hear cases in Bartholomew Circuit Court. Josh Cravens hurt by a nail while splitting kindling.
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Albert Gall
J. H. Reed
Saluda
Madison House
M. & M. Club
Friedley
Bartholomew Circuit Court
Columbus
Josh Cravens
Donnell
Greensburg
Court convenes as judge presides over varied cases
State vs. Henry Edminson is fined $1 and costs for provoke. State vs. John Tague sets $25 bond for carrying concealed weapons and intoxication. Judie Higgins declared of unsound mind with Rev. Guthneck appointed guardian. Sarah ONeill vs. Louisa Smith et al motions seek more specific complaint in a partition suit covering nearly 400 acres in Shelby and Ripley counties. Lawyers Vanosdol & Francisco for defendants Korbly & Ford for plaintiff. Judge Friedley to advisement.
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Judie Higgins
North
Madison
Rev. Guthneck
Sarah O’neill
Louisa Smith
Shelby Township
Ripley County
Vanosdol & Francisco
Korbly & Ford
Friedley
A Night of Nature's Opera and Winter News
A prose snapshot describes a winter night with prismatic snow, ice laden trees, and a moonlit tableau as streets near Madison are watched. Reports note river ice, boat movements, and freight traffic from Pittsburg to St Louis, plus weather, navigation, and early 20th century maritime concerns.
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Madisonward
Dr Edward Eggleston to Speak on Ireland at Plymouth Church
Dr Edward Eggleston Indiana’s teacher preacher and author now visiting at Dr S M Good’s residence will present an Indiana polis lecture at Plymouth church tomorrow evening. His lecture How They Live in Ireland draws on his 1891 Ireland visit and recounts boycotted estates famine districts and relief work with bishops priests and home rulers.
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Indianapolis Sentinel
Edward Eggleston
S. M. Good
Indiana
Indianapolis
Plymouth Church
Ireland
Eggleston
Connaught
Conemare
Trish
Madison Post Office Letter List January 19 1892
The Madison Indiana post office lists uncalled letters Laviss' List includes E Mary Engleman G Mollie Gordon J Mrs Jane Jones and others. To obtain letters applicants must request advertised letters with the advertisement date. Unclaimed letters after two weeks go to the dead-letter office in Washington. M C Garber P M.
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Madison
Indiana
Laviss
Mary Engleman
Mollie Gordon
Jane Jones
Elizabeth Johnson
Manerva Lanham
Lill Laird
Florie Lee
Mamie Morris
Mary Powell
Daisy Sinclair
Mel Thomas
Jessie Tilford
Elizabeth Todd
Della Wiley
James Woodsworth
J. T. Boen
E. A. Bolenge
C—William Carr
J. M. Clinond
Harry Curtis
John L. Francis
G—E. Renie Graham
H—Lewis Haskell
Washington
M. C. Garber
P. M
Local agents sought for Whitney fruit and tree line
Earn money in spare time as a local agent for J. E. Whitney Rochester. Yearly salary offered for steady work and a permanent profitable business can be built quickly. For full details write 30w 6m.
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J. E. Whitney
Rochester
N. Y
James Avery Escapes and Pleads Guilty in Scottsburg
James Avery, arrested on suspicion of stealing an overcoat and a revolver, escaped jail twice more after recapture. He was finally arraigned, pled guilty to larceny, and received a three year sentence with transfer to the southern prison. Avery claimed Terre Haute as home and refused to identify his parents.
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Scottsburg
James Avery
Terre Haute
Avery
South
The Barrel Electrocution Mock Trial Proceeds
A crowd suspends a man on a barrel with a rope, taunts him, and the speaker accepts death by electrocution. He asks to be sent to New York State for a modern method, but the crowd kicks the barrel and proceeds with the execution as a horse watches.
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New Orleans
Baton Rogue
Memphis
U.S. Insectors
New York
Cincinnati
F. A. Laidley
Laidley
Capt
F. W. Wise
Old Commonwealth
New York State
Fire waste in US hits 1891 total of 135 million
The Insurance Standard estimates US fire losses in 1891 at 135 million dollars, an average of 370 thousand per day or about 11 million per month, with week ending December 31 reporting 4.431 million. The previous year’s loss was 100 million.
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United States
Insurance
Chicago
Boston
Five Card Inquiry for Cards Sent by Express Mail
Request for ten cents in stamps to John Sebastian, Gen TT and Pass Agt, CuxicaGco, Rock Isuanp & Pacific Ry, Chicago Ill, for a pack of playing cards. Mentions 50 cent express money order or postal note to receive five packs.
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John Sebastian
Gen
Tkt
Pass
Ag’t CuxicaGco
Rock Isuanp & Pacific Ry
Chicago
Ill
Misnaming Things in Food Products and Baking Powder Claims
An experienced huntsman notes misnaming of places and brands, arguing many labels like pure or absolutely pure conceal adulteration. The piece railed against Royal Baking Powder for ammonia content and praised Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder as the pure, physician-made standard for forty years.
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Price
Dr Bull's Cough Syrup Tops Market Sales
Advertisements trumpet many remedies but Dr Bull's Cough Syrup leads sales as druggists report record demand priced at 25 cents.
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Dr. Bull
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