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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1891
Page
8
A garbled sale notice lists farm goods and trades while civic events unfold with a funeral, weddings, and street life. It cites a burial at Springhide, local industry chatter, and a string of marriages and notices including Madison and Kentucky pairs.
Yard quantities offered for mosquito bars canopy tops square frames round frames Babinet bars and common bars described in concise listing with material by the yard for outdoor protection.
An advertisement from Rochester invites square men or women to earn money as local agents for warranted fruits, shoowers and trees at 4 FE. Yearly salary offered for steady work and a permanent honorable business. Also notes the burial of Rev Josiah Crawford aged eighty, with funeral details and Hanover College references.
Sunday accident injures two women when a cart collapses and throws them from a horse drawn vehicle. A fish preserved in ice is found dead as thawing ice shatters. The Hon Daniel Blocher remains critically ill near Trolman station. An incendiary fire damages an old two story building. A stabbing on Depot Street leaves Frank Schleret injured but not fatally. Engine purchase debate at No 3 fire company. Brown King photographers prepare Main Street gallery. Assessor exposes tax evasion in Dearborn County with significant back tax penalties. Revival services grow at Bethel Chapel led by Rev N W Heermans with orderly, devout congregants. A choir forms. Heermans preaches on the parable of the unjust steward.
Win Gardner died at his son Johan Gardner’s home on Second Street at 6 forum yesterday. He was 76, died of pulmonary consumption, and had lived in Carrollton and Madison for many years. He fathered eleven children. three survive Mrs Alice Myrick, Mrs Lillie Forsee, and Johns. The cortege will go to Carrollton tomorrow for interment in the L O C F cemetery.
Madison resident Mr Hurlbut will speak to the Epworth League of the Kent M E Church on Sunday night August 2. He is an able lecturer with years of youth work experience and has pleased past audiences. Everyone is invited. EnwortHlan Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised with a 100 doses one dollar offer, claiming economy and strength.
Coremnes Onno July 28 The jury found the Ellicott murder defendant guilty of murder in the second degree meaning life confinement. William Elliott, editor of a Columbus Ohio Sunday paper, killed another Sunday paper editor in a public street incident amid a war of words between the papers. A new trial is sought by Elliott's attorneys.
Miss Stella Hurlburt relays word from Miss Lizzie Caskey of the death of James Caskey this morning from consumption. A former city resident who learned the printer trade and long worked for the Hirao, he was thirty five and leaves a wife and child plus a sister. Interment will be at his Centralia, Hbitiois home.
An advertisement claims a durable cure for consumption with a “timely use” remedy. It promises two free bottles to readers who send their Express and P. O. addresses. Also includes a travel and resort listing across Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota Iowa and the Dakotas with notes on rail routes and a free illustrated tourist folder.
A large handsome map of the United States mounted for office or home use is issued by the Burlington route. Free copies available where transmission costs allow. otherwise mail to any address on receipt of 12 cents in postage to P. B. Eustis, Gen's Pass. Agent, Chicago, Ill, July 2.
Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder, often called Good Luck Baking Powder, is marketed on exact ingredient testing and expert preparation. The ad claims uniform performance, absence of ammonia or alum, and white of egg content for moist sweet breads, pastries, and cakes.
Notices recount steamboat history and a fatal 1866 crisis on the steamer Stonewall near Table Rock. It also promotes Colorado rail routes via the Burlington Line with through sleepers and tourist tickets. A Des Moines man treats a wrist sprain with Chamberlain's Pain Balm, noting its value.
A journalist notes that the term news did not come from new but from old practice of placing compass initials at the top of daily publications. The four compass points signified world-sourced matter. The explanation links the word to geographic breadth rather than novelty.
The note promotes Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment as a cure for chronic sore eye tetter salt rheum scald head old chronic sores fever sores eczema itch prairie scratches sore nipples and piles. It is cooling and soothing with hundreds of cures after other treatments failed. 25 and 50 cent boxes sold by Heberhart & Son.
A promotional note promising satisfaction or money back if not cured. It touts Dr King’s New Discovery for throat lung chest ailments including consumption bronchitis asthma and croup. It mentions a safe pleasant taste and free trial bottles at a local drugstore.
The text proclaims years of selling Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Dr King’s New Life Pills Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters with universal satisfaction. It guarantees every purchase and offers a refund if results are unsatisfactory, asserting the remedies’ popularity stems from merit.
Advertisement offers Bust Salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions. Claims guaranteed satisfaction or money back with price 25 cents per box. Sold by J. E. O. F. Harper.
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