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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1915
Page
6
A long OCR fragment lists residents, visits, travel, weddings, illnesses, and minor incidents. It mentions Mrs. Alfred Ro White, Miss Maria, Attorney James S. Wright, Captain Morris, and others with movements between towns, trains, and social duties. A small fire near a residence is noted as quickly extinguished.
A man from the Fifth District underwent an operation for a right arm injury and later succumbed to a fractured hip at home Sunday. Local officers pursue four anonymous threats while investigators tour Alexandria businesses. no arrests have been made.
A partial dialogue fragment featuring a Cornell widow with phrases about sheep and a remark in a French tone. It appears as a playful, if incomplete, exchange with questions and replies.
Prof John D. Gabel of West Mansfield Ohio and Miss Luella A Borcherding wed Tuesday afternoon in Indianapolis attended by a few friends. The bride, youngest daughter of the late H W Borcherding, wore Belgium blue dolly traveling suit. A wedding supper was served at the bride’s sister Mrs Hugh Cravens home and a Japanese luncheon for the bride was hosted by Mrs Miles Smith. The couple will reside in West Mansfield after a brief wedding trip.
Albert G. Winter gives notice to Madison and Jefferson County voters of Madison City and Town of Madison renewal application for a temperance license to sell intoxicating liquors in specified premises on Mulberry Street. The notice lists location, building details, and compliance terms, dated March 25, 1915.
Local MISDILEFORK items reveal student activities with Mr Parks and Mr Oliver, Ms Smith and Ms Foltz hosting and visiting friends. Posts mention Shinnes painting shop, Richey outings, and multiple social visits among residents including West Middlefork and Dupont.
Madison wholesale market prices list flour meal and meal per hundred weight, live poultry and eggs, butter and poultry prices, turkeys and geese, hay and grain buying prices, seed selling prices, and wool and coal prices. Small medical ad appears at the end selling Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil.
A mixed price readout for Indianapolis cash livestock and grain markets shows steers to heavy values and varied hogs figures alongside crop notes and a brief historical blurb on kissing the hands from Roman times. The piece also lists probate notice for Adam Sims with court date in Madison Indiana.
Dian tha Sims and related heirs are notified to appear for final settlement accounts with P. E. Bear, attorney and administrator of the estate. Court action will determine distributions and closing of the estate. Attorneys urge compliance to finalize proceedings.
Edward Damm a Homer Illinois farmer head of the Damm family filed a petition to change the family name to Daum. He says too much kidding prompted the move in the March 22 filing.
In Crawfordsville on March 22 a circuit court awarded Mrs. Lillie Williams six thousand dollars against the T. H. I. E. traction company after her husband Clarence was killed by a car last August. The article notes a separate historical detail that cars were domesticated in Egypt around 1600 B C.
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