Stripped and Plaid Nainsooks and Organdies Arrive
New white goods line debuts with Nowelles in white fabrics including stripped and plaid nainsooks and organdies, expanding fabric options for summer wardrobes.
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1879
Page
3
New white goods line debuts with Nowelles in white fabrics including stripped and plaid nainsooks and organdies, expanding fabric options for summer wardrobes.
The Herald circulates in Jefferson and neighboring counties offering strong advertising value for merchants. Updates include teacher licensing results, local deaths, moves, debts, and court actions, with notes on trains, road work, and Odd Fellows officers. The piece covers community events, accidents, and public notices across towns.
Obituary notices report Mrs Andrew Margy of Hanover died in Sterling Kansas on the 26th and remains moved to Hanover for burial. Other items include a Trinity M E excursion to Louisville, lodge officer elections, Knights of Columbus branch officers, multiple marriage licenses, and local rescues of a drowning boy saved by City Engineer John Stringer.
Ex soldiers held a well attended meeting at the Court House on Tuesday evening to plan a city reunion. William Logan was elected President and Lon Heding Secretary. Committees on Arrangements Invitation Finance were named with list of members and dates set for the third week in August.
The board announced appointments across districts including High School Principal Miss M. D. Reid and 1st Assistant Miss M. Arbuckle. Central School District No. 2 names Principal Miss M. Thompson, with several grade and assistant posts listed.
The Gen. Lytle struck a sunken flat fifteen miles below Cincinnati on Tuesday morning week and sank near the Ohio shore with water reaching the wheel-house name. No lives or freight were lost. five hundred sheep aboard survived. The Joss loss is about $4,000 and the vessel was raised for repairs. It was the last trip of the Lytle for the season and the prior season also saw a serious accident. The Young Men's Hebrew Association elected officers led by M. A. Marks as President and Abe Hoffstadt as Vice President on Sunday.
A Columbus Democrat report details a runaway marriage where a Marysville couple allegedly fled to Louisville and then to Cincinnati area. The husband, James Clapp, and the wife, unnamed, were sought by authorities with a father’s request to arrest them on sight. The tale includes a bound child, a note, and later reconciliation with the wife returning home under distress.
The Messrs Pearn purchased about 1 000 bushels of wheat from the old Giltner farm in Hunters Bottum to be delivered this week at 90 cents per bushel. A newborns two girls born to Dee E M Wiley and wife yesterday. The crop outlook remains mixed with near full harvest yet a possible early cut, and tobacco yield appears fair despite a bad season.
A Cincinnati visit prompts a Star letter describing an unplanned meeting with Jim Brennen in a dingy Race Street saloon. The writer notes Brennen’s friendly manner but criticizes the bar’s poor setting and a blasphemous sign above the bar.
Columbus Democrat editor James N. Marsh denies claims of hidden ties to the Knights of the Golden Circle. Garber Jr is urged to recant false statements while a Madison Courier critique labels a journalist a dishonor to the profession. An exchange mocks striped parasols replacing striped stockings.
Railroad tickets to any point in the Great West offered by R. P. Gahr an agent for the FL and MM Insurance Co. Office on Second Street between Mulberry and West Madison Indiana. Shortest quickest cheapest route advertised by the agent.
Postmaster M. C. Garber lists tri weekly and semi weekly mail routes with opening and closing times for towns including Linville Kentucky Indianapolis Nort Vernon North Vernon Aurora Versailles Vevay Carrollton Ghent Warsaw Hanover Lexington Milius Ky and Stony Point Mud Lick Bryantsburg Rexville St Magdalene New Marion Titusville Canaan Waney s Barboursville and Versailles with specific 6 A.M. to 9 P.M. hours and Tuesday Thursday Saturday or Monday Wednesday Friday service details.
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