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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1915
Page
5
Brownstown dispatch reports Madison Town Council plans paved streets totaling about a mile and a quarter. Bids due August for vitrified brick asphalt concrete and tarvia bound materials. residential blocks to be 30 34 feet and business blocks 44 52 feet wide. Citizens favor brick for permanency and long term savings.
Uniformed waiters deliver light lunches in coaches on Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh with fruit sandwiches coffee and pastry at nominal prices. After a successful test the service expands to all coach portions with dining cars and will reach additional stations to meet passenger needs reducing lunch box use.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and effective internally for blood and mucous surfaces. It warns against imitations and offers testimonials free with purchase and Druggists selling the product. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Advertisement touts Dean's Regulats as a mild opening medicine for constipation with relief claimed for headaches dizziness and drowsiness. Priced at 25 cents a box at all stores.
Prof. C R Melcher is appointed Superintendent of Public Instruction in Porto Rico by Gov. Yager and President Wilson will sign his commission. His sister Miss Isabel Melcher will become instructor of music in public schools at Lexington, Kentucky, taking duties in September. This reflects honor for Switzerland County's son.
Indiana Democratic rules set last Wednesday in April as the permanent state convention date in Indianapolis and the Saturday after the March primaries as the permanent district convention date for Seventh district. Other districts hold their conventions on the first Tuesday in April, with the state chairman elected on the second Tuesday in April. Delegates will nominate presidential electors the night before the state convention and select national convention delegates by district.
Mrs. Bowser and Samuel Bowser clash over a carpet as he insists on handling installation in a businesslike, combative fashion. He tears up, repaints the effort, and proclaims sole control of household affairs, ending with a weary boast about a wife’s ignorance of running a home.
In Perth Amboy New Jersey Alec Buckowski fished beside Kessler pond with pole and line. A game warden cited him for fishing without a license, and Justice Pickerseill fined him $20. The tale notes that not every fisherman must catch fish to be considered one.
The Kansas City Journal sketches a proposal to leave children unnamed until age sixteen so they can choose their own names. The writer notes widespread dissatisfaction with parental name choices and mocks the reform by imagining a self assigned name like Algernon Reginald.
The judge recalls Miss Campbell who abandoned colored servants for whites. After a near relative dies the old colored maid visits and chides Miss Campbell to “take on a black man” in mourning, implying a shift back to her former staff.
A garbled compilation of quotes and misattributed snippets from various papers includes lines about business, insurance offers, singing praises, and archaic verse. The text mixes dialog snippets and literary excerpts with scattered names and publications.
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