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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1916
Page
1
The column questions party pledges and criticizes the Republican stance as it debates Wilson versus Hughes. It cites Navy growth under Wilson and calls out Cannonism and Aldrichism while noting wage gains for 2,500,000 workers. The piece argues for strong defense and constitutional government amid party infighting.
Progressive organizations in Michigan Missouri Wisconsin Idaho Utah and Massachusetts denounce bosses who vote for expediency. They claim such desertion does not reflect the 4,000,000 supporters of their measures and principles.
The speaker recalls 1908 when Taft won on lower tariff aims and voters doubted the Republicans but trusted Taft as a fair judge. He questions whether the same political maneuver can succeed again.
The speaker argues that the American people support Uncle Sam, his Constitution and flag, and will vote for the government over the so called invisible government. The message ties national identity to land and sea defense and urges unity under federal authority.
In November the United States foreign commerce for the fiscal year ending this month is estimated at 6 4 million dollars or 80 percent above the greatest Republican year Payne Aldrich era. Both farmers and workers share in the prosperity wave. The only hard times foreseen is from the Republican calamity howler. The silence of the Republican national platform on Wilson administration measures is noted. Ohio Republicans did not oppose the tariff or Mexican and preparedness records. Silence is described as assent.
Willis S Thompson notes the 1914 Indiana manufacturing capital reached 668.863 million dollars with 909 establishments. Materials cost totaled 123.857 million, products valued at 730.795 million, and value added by manufacture stood at 306.938 million. Salaries and wages rose to 155.84 million with 28,538 salaried employees and 197,508 wage earners on average. Maximum and minimum employment months are cited for 1914 and 1909.
Mrs. Maude Powell died when she hurled herself before a runaway team on a Con verse farm near Marion Indiana to shield her child. The husband, who witnessed the accident, fell unconscious and remains in serious condition.
The Indianapolis News lists Jefferson county figures from the last apportionment. There are 5,443 children aged 6 to 21, with 7,429.48 dollars from the school fund and 3,250.35 dollars in interest since the last apportionment, totaling 10,679.83 dollars ready for apportionment, and 2.31 dollars per capita. Caracas plans a massive new bullring.
Matthew Hale of Boston denounced the Progressive National Committee’s endorsement of Charles E Hughes as unauthorized and unauthorised by delegates or state bodies. In Alabama Michigan New Jersey Tennessee and Virginia delegates or state groups opposed the endorsement. Detroit’s State Central Committee repudiated the national endorsement and called for full state and local tickets for the campaign.
A Greencastle Indiana store finds a 1884 DePauw University Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter photo. The image includes Albert J. Beveridge and David Graham Phillips, with Thomas T. Moore noted for a silk handkerchief gift from Phillips’s mother, and Felix McWhirter, late president of the Peoples State Bank of Indianapolis. The photo recalls notable Indiana men connected to DePauw.
Madison reader Mrs. Fred Klein reports kidney trouble symptoms including backache dizziness and fatigue were relieved by Dean's Kidney Pills from Harper's Drug Store. Price 50 cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY endorses the product. Denmark reports over 6 300 motorcyclists.
The bite of a dog is a punctured wound that can be deep and seals germs if not treated. Seek physician care. surgeons enlarge punctures to aid cleansing and often cauterize after cleaning to guard against infection.
A moral tale from Queensland tells of Josh Lee who saved fuel by cooking a week’s oats on Sundays. With week-old stiff oatmeal, he barters a share of whisky to himself to finish the meal, then proclaims he fooled himself by emptying the bottle and tasting victory.
A Milwaukee News item notes a late hour scene at a bridge where a woman lingered until midnight while her husband stayed home with the children. He resented her ambitious mood and sought money for his poker party, highlighting domestic friction and a bid for funds.
A Boston Globe item alleges a photographer pressed for payments twice in a day, first in the morning and again in the afternoon, prompting questions about improper conduct and possible coercion.
A playful exchange pits Cholly Litebrane's wooing against Miss Sweet Thing as he pleads for consent. The witty dialogue centers on money and luck, contrasting old sayings with modern car culture and a cheeky note on temporary insanity.
A fragment depicts a woman on steps at eventide enjoying balmy air. A man asks to join her side and she answers with a vacant stair, capturing a quiet, unspoken moment.
Mrs. Rath Churk Bellah of 4 Garfield Place keeps a butterfly as a pet that reportedly lived through winter. Found Oct 25 under a lace curtain, it survived indoors, fed with sugar water, and exercised daily in a netted hut box. The butterfly is dark reddish brown with yellow and blue wing accents.
City council with Mayor Crozier approves 24 pages of June and July minutes and endorses a plan from Madison Light & Railway Company to install 100 watt street lights at about $20 annually. The body also endorses roadway improvements on Walnut and Main streets including paving with vitrified brick and moving streetcar lines to motor car service.
Indiana state board of optometry through secretary H E Woodard warns the public not to patronize itinerant optometrists as improperly fitted glasses can cause permanent eye injury. The board has begun an educational campaign on eye care and notes all practicing optometrists must be licensed, though enforcement against canvassing itinerant sellers is difficult.
A blaze on the second and third floors of Deaconess hospital in Louisville injures three panicked patients and a nurse, with Arnold Barton, five, dying in his father's arms as he was carried to the street. Thirty others are rescued. Origin traced to a wardrobe in Miss Bettie Herbert’s room.
In Cincinnati on July 8 a Kentucky militia brigadier general ordered soldiers to wear clothing while bathing in the Ohio River after a bathers dispute. A prominent society woman near Ft. Thomas fired upon bathers, injuring private John Parr of Nicholsville, Kentucky, in the foot.
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