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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1915
Page
4
Fragmented OCR shows an obituary or memorial piece with family details and reminiscences from Avon to Georgia. It recalls a long life, marriage, children, trades, and steady work. The text includes quoted verse about time and crossing the bar and ends with a note about Russia dispossessing 20,000 peasants in the Georgia province.
In Washington on March 3, Oncle Sam's cookery chemists tout a new potato bread claiming superiority to similar overseas loaves. Directions include using one quarter to one third mashed potatoes with wheat flour, minimal water, soft dough, partial fermentation, and a final rise before baking. An option blends 25 percent cornmeal with the wheat flour, with the wheat either scalded or parched at 280 to 309 degrees before mixing.
The lazy husband bill, approved by the house and sent to the governor, makes non support of a wife or child a misdemeanor and lets county commissioners require convicted neglectful husbands to perform work, with earnings to the family. Senator Jackson introduced the measure to pressure reluctant husbands into supporting their households.
A Louisville report notes a Carrollton worker sent to stem tobacco by the employment bureau returned with tales of low pay and high living costs. He said wages were about sixty cents a day and a forty week rate left little for clothing and drugs.
Governor Ralston vetoes House Bill 277 claiming unconstitutionality. He urges drafting a similar measure paused until a new bill can achieve the same aim. The vetoed bill, by Rep. Davis of Lake, would allow township trustees to levy tax on all taxable property to pay their salaries in townships with at least three fourths of territory incorporated as a city.
Mrs. Henry J. Bechtel, 42, of Lawrenceburg Indiana, was critically injured when a shelf accident caused cans to strike her on the head. She fractured her skull and doctors hold slight hope for recovery. The incident occurred as she attempted to remove a can of core. Nearby notes mention Sweden's cooperative societies and cinnamon production in Annam.
The Stalwart and Hummahuma collide in fog off the coast. Si and his mother Myra Sid dons are aboard. Si is saved, Myra dies, and the narrator, a shipkeeper with iron nerves, helps rescue and comfort Si using a Grand Army coat.
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