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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1915
Page
3
A brief item notes an event on Main Street in Madison Indiana dated July 5 with Doty as a key figure. The sparse readable text establishes a location and date without additional context. Partial OCR suggests a local notice or brief entry centered on Doty’s activity on Main Street.
The Indiana state treasurer George A. Butler reports June 11 balances after repaying a 100000 loan. Funds include General 2395624.86 School tuition 1746025.05 Benevolent 542? No. 19883. Sinking 10660.90 Educational 610614.30 College 311000. I. U. Endowment Principal 3449.01 Endowment Interest 17871.57 Unclaimed estates 100555.96 Common schools 53472. Safe state lands 1772.72 Reclamation lands 3308.71 Hydrophobia 4558.05 Road fund 198557.10 Fire Marshall 10428.80 Vocational education 258811.37 Total 3903001.61 The piece discusses 1914 and 1915 educational gains and institutional expansion under Governors Hanley, Marshall, and Ralston including six new benevolent and correctional institutions and a self-sustaining Michigan City prison.
John C. Zulauf president of the Citizens Bruel Company Jeffersonville and his wife Miss Agnes Zulauf miss Katherine Page Whiteside and Junior Martin of Louisville were in an accident on the Shelbyville pike nine miles from Louisville. The car toppled into an embankment. all occupants suffered shocks and minor injuries. Agnes suffered eye injuries. A following car driven by Robert M. Martin collided with the wreck. The Zulaufs left Louisville after the crash and the damaged car was abandoned there.
Democrats pressed Republicans to state school and instructional tax cuts if elected. Declined. Historical revenue figures show 198 Hanley era state taxes and general funds totaling over 6.09 million, with school revenues around 2.78 million and related amounts about 430 thousand and 456.99 thousand in the cited year, under Hanley and Ralston administrations.
Clifty items note a son born to Mr and Mrs Oscar Humphrey on July 3 named Roscoe Elmer. Also mentions visits and health notes from local residents including Jeffries Jeffring Hurstle Borcherding Kloopfer Black Mouser and others with ties to Newcastle Pittsburg Kent and Bailey Jones.
Quick relief claim for rheumatism through Sloan's Liniment applied to surface joints and muscles. Promises rapid pain relief and broad use including colds sore joints lumbago and sciatica. Offers money back satisfaction guarantee.
Lieutenant Fred Fitchen of Carrollton has been promoted to quartermaster with the rank of captain in the Kentucky National Guard in Frankfort Kentucky on July 2.
Joe Martin reels a remarkable catch after using a small eel as bait. He hooks an eel then strings nineteen black mouth bass from a pound to two and a half pounds, followed by seventeen more on a second haul in forty one minutes. The event highlights an unlikely fishing spree with minnows and an eel.
Secretary Daniels announced that the cruiser Columbia now in reserve at Philadelphia will be commissioned to serve as flagship for Captain A. W. Grant and as a schoolship for training officers and men for submarine service. The plan calls for a on board school on the flagship to prepare crews for the twelve submarines nearing completion and for them to be detailed as vessels are delivered. The Columbia will join the Atlantic submarine flotilla with the Prairie as tender. the ship, originally a commerce destroyer, is noted for speed and size suitable for training, with a length of feet, beam of fifty eight feet, and displacement of 7050 tons capable of 22.8 knots.
Jim Keith of Schaeferstown Pa defeats severe injuries including a broken back and leg amputation to pass final exams at Jefferson Medical College. In Jefferson hospital he learns he is now a doctor though unlikely to practice, with wife Ida by his side and their infant present. He credits indomitable will and medical science for his triumph.
Philadelphia child Beatrice Whitelun, daughter of Mr and Mrs Bert Whitelun, swam 320 yards on the Philadelphia Semitone club course in the Seboavikil river at Lafayette. She began with breast stroke then switched to an overhead drive and finished without distress as spectators followed.
Seven-state commission formalized the Dixie highway linking Chicago to Miami with north and south routes. A Lake Michigan loop and a Florida west coast loop create a continuous regional highway. Major midwest and southern cities named include Danville Indianapolis Louisville Nashville Cincinnati Lexington Knoxville and Miami.
Mrs Frank Roose of East St Louis saved Oscar Bilger by applying pressure to a throat wound until aid arrived after three armed assailants attacked Bilger near Cahokia Illinois. Bilger, transporting cleaning supplies, was robbed of 24. The attackers fled and were later arrested.
Albert Bourne a transient farm hand in Bronx City changed his name to Albert Brown and nearly lost a seven million inheritance from an uncle who died in Melbourne Australia. After a six state search Bourne was found on a Nebraskan farm near Macon. He previously lived in St Joseph Missouri paying one dollar weekly board while hospitalized. Inheritance includes 889000 acres of free land 25000 sheep 400 horses hundreds of cattle and 50000 pounds. Bourne is fifty and Irish.
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