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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1913
Page
4
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Columbus Indiana January 21 W T D Wooden superintendent of the Hope Baptist Sunday school has launched a contest to raise attendance and funds based on the ages of class members. Each scholar pays as many pennies as their age, with a total of 2000 years to start and a target to reach before the contest ends. A separate death notice notes William Crosier an elderly bachelor died in Waiesboro missing a will by minutes after it was written. the estate would go to a niece in Indianapolis Danville Kentucky and Waiesboro residents are affected. A Kentucky county fair will feature a freak calf with a six joint dog and two bodies two stomachs and double legs requiring more feed. the calf is five months old.
An old exchange story contrasts a boy who could not sell rabbits because no one asked what was in the sack with merchants who must clearly tell customers what they offer. It argues that advertising opens the sack and shouts the merchandise to buyers.
Indian Affairs Committee considers an unfavorable report to vindicate Secretary Fisher over leasing 423000 acres on Osage Reservation to Uncle Sam Oil Co. The move seeks to discredit a charge that Fisher favored Standard Oil. Meanwhile Senator Borah calls for recall of the Interior Secretary in a joint session address.
Indianapolis report details a battle over a $500 000 inheritance. The mother and a man identified as the alleged father contest paternity after a child was allegedly substituted at birth. Mrs. Fred Trtain of Ut ftareer Ave claims the child was swapped for another at birth to gain control of the estate.
Notice of taxes due for state county city school and other levies in Jefferson County Indiana for 1912 payable at the County Treasurer in Madison. The document includes the rate per hundred dollars of property and per poll for towns townships and corporations for MW12. Madison Indiana January 7 1915.
United real Waslington reports a $1,000,000 relief bill for Ohio River flood sufferers. Representative Stanly introduced a House resolution requesting the funds for hospitals tents and other relief measures for destitute victims if the appropriation is approved.
Eugene V. Debs, three time presidential candidate, was freed on a $1,000 bond after arrest on charges of obstructing justice in the Appeal To Reason case. Witness in the government’s case against the Kansas publication Girard. Also notes a Boston man’s leg loss from an insect bite two years earlier.
Township Trustee Harry Underwood announces a public sale of the EPrame School Building in School District No 2 Smyrna Township Jefferson County Indiana. The building on the G W Rowlison farm will be removed and sold to the highest bidder for cash at 1 am on February 5th 1915. No bid below two thirds of its appraised value will be considered.
Curtis Shafer a farmer and his teen daughter Effie were burned to death after entering their burning home to rescue his wife and younger daughter. Others were seriously burned and may die. In Louisville Louisiana Hal Carey, a Black man, was lynched by a mob after confessing to burning six barns.
Washington January 21 The Federal Government moves to define a standard of water purity. Secretary MacVeagh, advised by Surgeon General Blue of the Public Health Service, is to appoint a committee of scientists to settle what constitutes pure water, a question the government has not yet answered despite defining purity for whisky wine and beer.
Columbus Indiana January 23 Francia T Crump a local millionaire received a letter from a former resident threatening his life if he did not surrender all his ready money and will him the remainder of his fortune. The letter has been turned over to police.
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