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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1892
Page
8
A list of cheap fabrics and textiles including bleached muslin at 5 and 714 cents per yard, brown muslin at 5 and 61 cents, brown sheeting at 16 cents, dressing gowns at 7% cents, and outing cloth in spring styles at 8% cents.
A jumble of ads and notices from the Madison Herald lists Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup along with Simmons Liver Regulator. It mentions personal updates like Electa Montgomery’s burial, Mike Clark’s birthday, and a Water Works Trustee race, plus a sale notice for steamer vessels and local furniture and carpet offerings.
The article notes that extreme heat is not the main danger but abrupt temperature changes. It cites yver's Sarsaparilla as easing adverse effects during such shifts. Col. C. D. Miller, longtime river department chief for the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, seeks a river survey post from Pittsburg to Vaira and has left Cincinnati for an eastbound trip. Farmers lament a yearly fruit crop failure amid thawing snows and frozen buds, portraying a looming orchard loss.
The 4th earnest solicitation of Mr. Jigtin Doolittle’s many friends presents him as a candidate for Water Works Trustee, pending Democratic primary. Madison’s longtime, trusted citizen has served the city for forty years in various roles, including City Assessor, a post abolished by recent emergency legislation after he prepared his books.
Personal visits and relocations weaved through Cincinnati and nearby towns as D. Lefly and daughter Dora visit, Miss Alice Levi returns from Danville Kentucky, Mrs. Fred Hablizel returns from Peoria Illinois, and John Sage family relocates to Hackensack New Jersey. Social circles will feel a loss.
Mrs Ellen Woodburn Shrewsbury widow of Charles Shrewsbury died at her home on Poplar and First streets after years as an invalid She was a lifelong Christ Church member mother of six with five sons dead and one daughter wife of Capt A J Wyatt Funeral planned from Christ Church Thursday at 3 30 Interment Springdale cemetery Also reported are the funeral of Charles A Stanton at Vine Street Baptist Church and a long farmer pupil tale from Franklin College with a prank gone wrong and a farmer declaring the culprit would be found. the boy with a jaw wound accepted responsibility.
The Madison Indiana Post office lists uncalled letters dated March 22 1892 including B Clarrissa Boswell i Mrs Almeda Goins and S Mrs Sarah and Maggie Smith Gentlemens List includes Elmer Barton l Thomas Fields Gideon French L Antony Lemay R Bert Robinson Capt H A Rulon T F M Taylor W L Weide Letters uncalled must be asked for with advertisement date and unclaimed items go to Washington after two weeks. Also several medical ads and humor lines follow.
An advertisement offers a pack of high quality playing cards for fifteen cents postage. Send payment to P. S. Eustis General Passenger Agent Chicago Illinois for the B and Q railroad. Date reads feb18dtf.
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