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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1913
Page
1
A New Jersey judge sets 343.00 as an outfit price for a woman sparking chatter among women. Authors argue fashion demands both scientific fit and individuality, driving up costs and favoring small shops over large, machine driven stores.
Secretary of War Garrison will retain the War Department personnel temporarily. Supreme Court upholds railroad damage limits. Roosevelt named assistant Navy secretary. Dockery and Balkesi receive posts. Aetna Powder Works plant explodes. Nobel’s works explosion kills eight, injures fifteen. Laon fire kills forty, injures thirty. farm explosion and trampling noted. Benjamin Fink confesses in tax and arson cases. numerous insurers implicated. Conway sentence for Baltimore heiress murder set. Stack injured by tree limb fall.
The Indiana Senate passed the Lake county draining bill and a tax levy increase bill with one dissenter. The House killed the Traylor liquor bill and a proposed commission form of government bill while approving appropriations and appointing committee members. Governor signed Clarke's housing bill and weights measures, with other bills and appointments moving through the chamber.
March 6 report from Paducah describes James Wells, a self confessed murderer, in the county jail at Smithland. He created a disturbance drawing many inmates and deputies, was restrained, and given morphine to calm him. Prison watch will be intensified. Wells’ trial is set for the April term of the Livingston Circuit Court.
Seven Scottsburg stores were robbed in one night with visits to Charles Ardrey Charles McClain W L Hubbard Henry Christy Clay Prosser Joseph P Williams bakery J C Dunlevy and Cravens Giardner. Overcoats cash and coins were stolen and stock consumed.
A dense listing of market prices for flour brands, meal, bran, and New Wheat quotkations. Includes live poultry items with weights and prices, eggs and butter, turkey and goose prices, hay and grain buying ranges, and coal prices from Middletown-Wymond Co. Coal.
Robert E. Springsteen named postmaster at Indianapolis. Richard B. Olney of Cleveland named next Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Judge James A. Collins of Indianapolis to lecture in the city on March via Loyal Sons.
The New Washington Courier notes the charitable King's Daughters Hospital of Madison run by Bethany Circle and Juniors with help from local business leaders. It lists staff doctors led by Dr. W R Davidson and Dr E C Cook among others, praises Dr. R W Cochran eye throat work, and highlights Miss Lora B Roser as superintendent with nurses Stamper Jordan Rohrman.
A Madison reader extols Dean's Kidney Pills for back pain and related symptoms. The testimonial claims long relief, urging others to buy from Foater-Milburn Co., Buffalo New York as sole US agent, price 50 cents. Remember the name Dean's and take no other.
Representative Cravens introduces a bill to raise state levy rates for benevolent and educational institutions, arguing decades of underfunding and reliance on general funds. The measure would set benevolent tax at 10 cents and educational at 7 cents per $100, reduce general fund levy, and create sinking funds with construction oversight by the state board of finance.
Charles L. Clemene and wife deed property in Hanover to George W. Britan for 84 dollars. Bennett Lawler and wife transfer 40 acres in Smyrna township to Wm. M. Rameey for 800 dollars. George W. Britain conveys property in Hanover township for 84 dollars.
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