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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1916
Page
2
A Wafting account lists songs recitations and duets for a Wirt children’s program with notes of changes due to weather and illness. Local families, Mrs. Frank SleGee and Mr. Everett Geared, plus Miss Josie Turner are mentioned among attendees and visitors.
Dr Bell s Pine Tar Honey touted as a cough remedy for children. Pine loosens mucous, soothes the throat, and opens airways while honey adds pleasant flavor. Marketed as a must have for growing families with recurring colds.
The Clinton city school board chose Donald Dushane of Madison to succeed James Wilkinson. Dushane, a former Shelbyville high principal, earns praise for his broad background, university training, and experience as Madison’s superintendent where he oversees forty three teachers. He will assume duties in August after Wilkinson departs.
Jeffersonville Indiana announces one of the largest government supply lettings in years. Proposals to be opened for 88 bid items including army field bake ovens field ranges covers camp kettles perpers and many other items such as batteries spring scales sheet steel and manila rope.
Dr Carolyn E Geisel physician surgeon and lecturer joins Madison Chautauqua to discuss Women Suffrage from a female expert view. She has served on Battle Creek Sanitarium staff and chaired health departments for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Children’s day at Mt Zion M E Church drew a large crowd. Mrs Luvena Ulmer of Marion Indiana visited her sister Mrs Roy Davis while Master Leslie Smith of Indianapolis plans a summer stay. A missing baby dress from a buggy at the hitch rack during services asks for its return. The Fourth of July picnic and lawn fete on church grounds drew good food and a grand time. The wheat crop is about ready with the threshing to follow.
The warning cautions that mercury in nostrums damages smell and balance. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo as mercury free and ingested, with testimonials and domestic production in Toledo Ohio. It notes the product's price and availability from druggists and suggests Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Local advertisement touts Mrs Austins Rag Pancake Flour for making rich brown cakes. The copy highlights easy batter and home baking appeal with the brand as a key ingredient.
John Howard of Vevay and Cullie Locke of Moorfield were refused a license by County Clerk Willard G. Fraley who cites Indiana law requiring the bride reside in the issuing county. The couple says Kentuckians cross into Indiana to marry. Also notes a coroner’s verdict: Griffiths died in Ohio River accident with no negligence by Ferryiman. Also advertises Dr King’s New Discovery for colds.
Columbus resident John Underwood shows a four legged chicken that allegedly uses one pair of legs while resting the other, gaining weight and staying active. He has received a $25 offer if the bird matures. The note then promotes Sloan's Liniment with claims of blood flow relief and pain relief, urging purchase in 25c, 60c, and 1.00 sizes.
Raymond Pearl of the Maine agricultural experiment station described experiments with seventy crossbred chickens. In daily hour long alcohol ether exposure, drunk hens grew fatter and averaged 184 eggs per year versus 181 for abstinent sisters. Drunken roosters were lazy but otherwise well.
Paris reports a new directive by Minister Albert Thomas ordering munition workers found intoxicated to be sent to the fighting line. The measure is framed not as punishment but to remove men likely to face temptations at the front.
In Charlestown a physician named Dr. W Hodson who visited the county farm for the poor year claims he had his first bath in twenty years. He later reappears at his former home in Underwood Indiana and recounts the vigorous scrubbing by farm attendants. The remark ends with a moral about owing or being owed.
Feel mean cross ugly sore at yourself and everyone else. Your stomach is out of whack. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will put it back. Taken tonight tomorrow be right. Don't wait. 35c Tea or Tablets. Peters' s drug store.
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