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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
6
Marlsor Inc announces a notice dated June 1 1916 referencing a matter at Porto Moe on Main Street in Matin and the office location for related actions.
William Ficklin Howe of Carrollton Kentucky dies suddenly in the afternoon after attending church services. Born in Ireland April 18 1846 he moved to Kentucky at age two and built a career in banking mercantile and wool manufacturing. He leaves wife Lou Winslow Howe five children Joseph B Howe and a sister Mrs J M Froman among other relatives.
A safe at William A. Lawrences Charlestown Indiana store was blown open with blasting powder and fuse. About $200 and checks and watches were taken. Drills and tools from Spriestersbach Bros. Hardware aided the job. Lawrence slept nearby. deputy Barney Egan pursued leads with no results. Funeral notice for James Mason Sullivan accompanies the item.
Julie Topsy Pauline De Kol a four year old Haalstein cow sets a new world milk production record. She produced 28 416 pounds of milk in the last year or 3 304 gallons beating the old record by 1 671 pounds. The city owns the cow and her milk from Warrens correction farms is sent to the workhouse prisoners.
An old advertisement warns against mercury in ointments and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Toledo Ohio and Doan's Ointment for skin troubles. It claims internal action for catarrh and topical relief for eczema and itchy skin with price and sourcing details.
Mi Paso and Los Angeles items feature Mrs Alvaro Obregon praising home life and motherhood while dismissing Mexican women’s immediate vote rights. Separately Miss Violette Wilson of Berkeley denounces university schooling, champions freedom and love, and predicts future changes in marriage and divorce norms across society.
The Greensburg Times reports Miss Adah Osting and Brian A. Turner announced their engagement in verse. Turner, a mail carrier, will marry Adah Quine on May 31st as friends were told yesterday.
In Lamb Maryland and Carrollton Kentucky area twenty cows died from clover bloat on Whites Run over the past week. Gus Fithherland of Lamb Indiana was thrown from a motorcycle and is in a concussive condition not expected to recover. Commencement exercises are Friday evening at the opera house with graduates listed as George Davis Anna Todd Ethalene Rowland Sylvia Jones Juliet Phillips and Mary Busch ing.
An advertising insert touts Sloan's Liniment as a cure for rheumatism neuralgia and other pains claiming rapid relief and renewal of warmth. Separately, a brief note reports New York City as the world's busiest port surpassing London by 200 million dollars and mentions discussions of William J. Bryan as a possible prohibition nomination at the St Paul convention.
Miss Helen E ston Smith, niece of Mrs Lew Wallace, traveled to New York to await a friend’s body. Instead she found a French army officer’s corpse in the coffin believed to contain her young friend’s remains. It’s presumed a mix up in shipment caused the burial of the wrong body with military honors in wartime France.
In Columbia Missouri Professor Max Myer head of the psychology department at the University of Missouri demonstrated hypnosis without a hypnotist. He used a bright object to fix attention and no sound to distract. Student Lee B Eads of Hamilton starred as the subject during the demonstration.
Creditors heirs and legatees of decedent Nellie Gray must appear in Circuit Court Madison Indiana June 10 1916 to show cause why Final Settlement Accounts should not be approved and to prove heirship and receive distributive shares Administrator Madison Safe Deposit Trust Co May 25 1916
An advertisement promises Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will drive out constipation, regulate the bowels, and purify the system. It urges a trial at 35c in tea or tablet form and directs readers to Peters' drug store with a Herald ad.
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