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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
6
The board of commissioners of Jefferson County Indiana approves various allowances and expenses for county officials and offices. Items include clerk, treasurer, assessor, coroner, health, and public works costs with multiple names and amounts listed.
Official notice lists tax rates due for state county city school and other purposes in Jefferson County Indiana with detailed per hundred dollar valuations and specific local disbursements including auditor office expenses roads and highway work and Hatcher Hill repairs. Certification of the Board of Commissioners allowances is dated January 14 1913 by Auditor A M Taff. A farm donation from Mr. Thomas B. Fitzpatrick of Boston to St Vincent de Paul Society near Boston provides housing for indigent workers and a large month by month vacation plan for 1000 boys and 1000 girls.
The Board of Trustees of the Southeastern Hospital met in regular sessions Tuesday January 14 1913 at Cragmont and awarded contracts for groceries coffee tobacco fresh meats cured meats potatoes pps laundry supplies butterine oils provender dry goods and drugs to multiple firms including Elmer E Scott Co Cofield Barber Co Geigar Fishback Co Pearl Packing House Sulzberger Son Co O Oliver & Son U S Laundry Soap and Supply Co Daily Roth John Hibbin Rogers and others.
A testimonial touts that weight and strength matter for womanhood and health. Electric Bitters are praised for curing fainting, dizziness, weakness, nervousness, backache, and fatigue. The ad claims broad benefits and a five cent price at Harper's drug store with a guarantee.
At St Meinrad Indiana 200 seminarians and prep students trudge to Monte Casino hill to celebrate a vow made fifty years ago to give thanks yearly for deliverance from smallpox in 1830s 1840s era. The rite is led by Very Rev Dr Gregory Bechtold with procession from the seminary to the chapel and a high mass.
The document lists movable feasts and civil holidays for 1913. It notes Easter on March 23 and other holy days plus Lincoln Day February 8 Inauguration Day March 4 Memorial Day May 30 Fourth of July Friday Labor Day September 1 Columbus Day October 13 and Thanksgiving Day November 27, with related abstinence guidance.
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