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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
4
A civic campaign guide urges early anti fly measures with education in schools clubs and committees. It outlines six steps from securing health department cooperation to using cleanup days and early spring swat contests to reduce fly breeding and sanitation risks.
Washington April 30 the death rate in twenty three states shows a drop to 14.2 per thousand in 1911 from 15.0 in 1910 with seventeen percent of deaths in the registration area occurring in infants under one year. Seattle records the lowest rate. Memphis reports the highest. The report also notes a fire loss at a barn near Warsaw and a river packet sinking with substantial financial losses. Virginia seeks Jamestown island national park status. Other local notices include a repair shop opening by O W Griffey and a buckwheat product from Mrs Austin’s store.
In Uzumba near Mexico City a bridge on the Inters Oceanic railroad was dynamited by Zapatista rebels killing 160 men women and children aboard the train. Only ten survived, all gravely injured. Rebels fled as troops pursue and hold orders to execute without trial.
Senator Kern Sava labels civil service claims as rotten and Representative Cox plans a House resolution for a broad probe into alleged violations of civil service rules in Tachma rural carriers and fourth class postmasters. Cox cites data from county chairmen claiming 97 percent of rural carriers and postmasters are Republicans.
A stark assertion that flies thrive on human bounty and spread death and disease. It urges people to treat flies as the most persistent natural threat and notes flies in dining rooms precede illness treated by doctors.
Charles G. Dawes, head of Central Trust Co of Illinois, intends to build a $100,000 hotel memorial for his son Rufus Fearing Dawes who drowned in Lake Geneva on Sept 5. The hotel would house unemployed men with lodging at cost and a free employment agency. A similar women’s wing is planned. The project mirrors work once envisioned by father and son with YMCA inspiration from New York.
Cambridge May 24 A precocious student William James Sidis aged fifteen is poised to win a Harvard Bachelor of Arts next June. He entered Harvard at eleven and has built a balanced schedule with advanced mathematics and other studies. Son of noted psychologist Dr Barry Sidis his early years were shaped by intense mathematical tutoring.
A report states Iceland will end the year with a dry policy making it impossible to obtain liquor for Loatives or tedrists. The anti spirit law allows limited consultation of existing stock for medical and other essential uses while enforcing a ban to curb excessive drinking that harms physical fitness.
Philadelphia reform mayor Rudolph Blankenburg and two cabinet members will travel to Madison Wisconsin to study political economy at the University of Wisconsin. The three day program aims to help him manage municipal finance and counter council opposition. The City Club may join the trip. In Evans Colorado a judge postponed court when his terrier died during a trial and held a funeral for the pet.
Dr Clarence John Blake of Harvard otology envisions a noiseless future where less noise means healthier living. He warns that loud sound harms hearing and cites industries like mining, stonecutting, engineering, metal work, and pearl cutting as high risk.
Yonkerra, a teenager and son of Patrick McCrath, left Morris Street MO for President Wilson's inaugural on March 2. He traveled by stage to Yonkers with help from troopers of the Fifth Massachusetts and found odd jobs along the way. He reports no real difficulty getting food and reached home safely.
The first motor church used by the Philippine mission society was dedicated at St Navter's academy with the bishop of Jaro officiating. The car chapel, a gift from a California donor in memory of her husband, will be shipped to Brownsville Texas for use by Oblate Fathers guiding a southwestern tour for the next year.
Stephen Brown, visiting Neenah, discovers a moldy envelope under a stone containing a 15 year old telegram about Wallace Brown's death in Detroit. The note was hidden by a child who feared distress to his widowed mother who died months later leaving him an orphan. Brown recalls the moment with tears.
Kansas City lawyer Benjamin F. White, after years in practice, leaves law for farming. He traded his home for a farm in Macon County, Missouri, and writes to friends with glowing reports of the venture.
Heavy sage tea with sulphur and alcohol was claimed to turn gray hair dark and lush. An easier option was Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur hair remedy sold by druggists, promising natural, even coloring with regular use.
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