Madison Daily Briefs Chronicle Local Happenings
May 13 edition notes 6 graduates at Jeffersonville commencement and Derby attendance in Louisville. Reports marriage licenses for Albee Hawkins and Ferguson West. Vogeler ships a fine Cincinnati rig to Madison. Ads urge Hood’s Sarsaparilla and local business updates. Clarksville trip for J. Clark, John Coup resigns as Columbus Herald editor, proposed summer variety show, and Michigan Wisconsin smoke clouds. Queer half dollars circulate. Schneide r funeral. Ferguson West wedding. Adama Express Indiana finances. Fourth of July planning. Old Point House dispute. juvenile dimes ban. Frank Harris missing. St Michael’s Union officers new. Hanover Glee Club coming. Alberta death. train shooting near Columbus station.
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Joseph L. Albee
Susan Hawkins
Dudley Ferguson
Mary West
E. Vogeler
Cincinnati
Madison
Hood
John Coup
Columbus Herald
The
Herald
Michigan
Wisconsin
Frank Schneider
Paper Mill Road
Fack
Hebron
Dandley Ferguson
Kentucky
Squire Cravens
Adama Express Company
Indiana
Old Point House
Telegraph Road
Squire Cravens’ Court
M. & M. Club Aids Town Boom With Shipyard Resumption
In a busy town the M. and M. Club supported by thrifty men has boosted business. The note says shipyard may restart soon, lifting spirits of merchants and workers as winter ends and a new boom begins. DraL O ULock is credited with the toast urging more power to the club.
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M. & M. Club
Dral O'Ulock
Red Men's Banquet Celebrates St Tammany Anniversary
Juniata Tribe hosts a banquet and literary program praising Red Men principles Freedom Friendship and Charity. Hanover Glee Club and soloists perform while Solomon J Bear reads the tribe history and Solomon J Bear gives an oration. The event ends with luncheon dancing and gratitude to organizers.
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St. Tammany
Juniata
Bachman
W. W. Hinds
Order of Red Men
Hanover Glee Club
Hanover
Jesse Bowman
Solomon J. Bear
Hanover Gee Club
Schneider
Marion Robinson
Robinson
Jon Andy Duck
Peck
P. E. Bear
Alikasander
Prof. Baehmian
Not Old Hutch A Fringe Figure At Large In Indiana
An eccentric man, likely about six years old, caused a stir by claiming to be B P Hutchinson a Chicago grain dealer. He wore a plug hat and long gray hair, spoke of being James Ford of Moberly Missouri and Frank James, carried money to gift away, and boarded a northbound train toward Louisville or St Louis after dining at the Indiana bourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. P. Hutchinson
Chicago
City
Indiana
Lauiaville
James Ford
Moberly
Missouri
St. Louis
Frank James
Louisville
May 14 Briefs Highlight Local Happenings and Drought Needs
J. M. I pay car brings cheer to boys. Strawberries sell two quarts for thirty five cents. Commissioners plan June meeting. Hinds of Scottsburg assigns. Murphy draws 1500 abstinence pledges. Doctors in town. drought signs appear. rain needed. Grubbs to preach memorial at Butlerville May 24. Indiana strawberries first harvest at New Albany from Perry County. High School graduates near. Bridges may be fixed. fountains removed from lawns. Hanover athletic club plans field day. School trustee wait until June. Hood’s Sarsaparilla rising in popularity. Barnum’s show coming for small boys. Madison sports attend Kentucky Derby in Louisville. Hay drowns near Buckeye State. Donations to Home listed. Board of Health urged to order cleanliness. Old mermaids referenced. Sunday School Convention at Liberty. Wu Schull fined for drunkenness. McKay contract with city under review. Mrs Malsom’s needle swallowed forty years ago removed. Wam. Fountain of Bedford hangs self for love. Benson owes Varble. default judgment. Willis Ward funeral held in North Madison. Poe and Foe obtain marriage license. Old turntable to be replaced at North Madison roundhouse. Moore’s Hill College enrollment at 174. teaching changes cited.
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Grubbs
Butlerville
Indiana
New Albany
Perry County
Wu. Schull
Indian Kentuck
Squire Cravens
Main Street
Leonard Maurer
Frank McKay
Republican Council
Mr. Malsom
New Goshen
Bing
Wam. Fountain
Bedford
Ind
Robert F. Benson
George Varble
Benson
Dangerous Lunatic Terrorizes Carrollton Area
Reports describe a raving maniac near Carrollton along the Kentucky river since Monday. Sheriff Robinson and a two day search cornered him in an old barn. he fought and wounded a farmer before capture and is jailed in Lancaster, claiming origin in St Petersburg Russia. He threatens more killings with an ax as authorities inspect his past year in the United States.
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Carrollton
Kentucky
Robinson
Lancaster
St. Petersburg
Russia
United States
Cambridge protest at women admission stalls reform
About fourteen hundred Cambridge University members sign resolutions opposing women entering the university. Harvard professors will earn 4500 dollars annually and assistant professors 3000 dollars. Library holdings are listed for several universities, and a series of short editorial witticisms and notices conclude with a funeral report and an advertisement for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy.
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Cambridge University
England
Harvard
Hanover College Lecture Series and Campus Events
Rev Thomas of Marion Indiana lectured on Ecclesiastical History as part of the college year. Walter L Fisher and bride arrived from Boston with Miss Edith Fisher. Sigma Chi hosted a reception. Sophomores and Juniors contest the close championship in baseball amid several injuries. Senior preparatory exhibition speakers announced with Morris as eighth. a faculty prize awaits the best declaimer.
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Mr. Thomas
Marion
Ind
Thomas
Thomas E. Thomas
Walter L. Fisher
Bride
Boston
Edith Fisher
Chicago
W. Fisher
Sigma Chi
Sig
Fisher
Activa
Madison
Bata
H. William
Mouser
Clatworthy
McCoy
Montgomery
Misses Mace
Youtsler
Morris
Double tragedy and a tonic's tale from a college exit
Two former college friends Wilkins and Watkins leave campus in frail health. Wilkins dies in two years after traveling for health. Watkins, once poor, becomes a bank president and credits Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with saving his life during early lung weakness and lingering coughs.
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Wilkins
Watkins
Robinson
Pierce
Wilkine
The Burlington Route and Regional Highlights
The Burlington Route described as a premier model railroad serving Chicago to Denver and beyond with extensive westward connections. It boasts fast, safe, comfortable service for passengers and freight across Illinois to Colorado, urging inquiries to local agents or GF&P. Also includes ads touting Dr King New Discovery for La Grippe with money-back guarantee, Electric Bitters as a health tonic, and iron tonics for debility and backaches.
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Burlington
Chicago
Peoria
St. Louis
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Colorado
Deadwood
S. Dakota
Black Hills
West Northwest
Kansas City
Atchison
St. Joseph
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Lincoln
Denver
St. Paul
Minneapolis
M. Lavary
Heward Elliott
Gf&p.a
Keokuk
Dr. King
J. E. C. F. Rapper
Sise Sc
Time card rates for Pennsylvania lines announced
Time from 1.00 p m to 1.00 a m for dark faced type and 1.00 a m to 1.00 p m for light faced type are shown. Joseph Wood E A Ford GM and GPA announce for Pittsburgh Penn a general passenger agent. For fare and through tickets contact any Pennsylvanian office for running trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Wood
E.A. Ford
Pittsburgh
Penn’a
Pennsylvania
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Jeffersonville
Mr. J
Clark
Clarksville
Monterey
Frank Harris
Beiered
Smith
Clay Davidson
St. Michael’s Union
Third Street
Wm. Walch
James Donahue
James Dowd
William Gordon
Peter Kleim
Messers
Tracy
Schultze
Graham
Monfort
Drayer
Alberta
Albert Bach
East Main Street
Columbus
John Ebbett
Chattanooga
Tenn
Sullivan
Friends of Juniata Tribe
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Commissioners’ Court
E. M. Hinds
Boots and
Scottsburg
Francis Murphy
Huntington
Kent
Madison Sports
Ben Hay
Buckeye
Jas. McIntire
J. F.wells
Hunt
J. C. Hill
Isom Ross
Irish Hollow
Madison Pike
Board of Health
Liberty School House
Willis D. Ward
Christian Church
North Madison
Fairmount Cemetery
William P. Poe
Fanny Foe
Carroll County
Scott
North Madison Round House
Moore’s Hill College
Amos Williams
Ben Dunecrn
Duncan
Willams
Williams
Frank Kraemer
Frank
Joseph Kraemer
East Fliat Street
St. Mary’s Catholic School
R. W. Ball
East Second Street
Notes of Colleges
Harvard University
Yale
Cornell
Columbia
Syracuse
Dartmouth
Leigh
Brown
Princeton
Tuson
Bowdoin
University of Virginia
Shelbyville Democrat
Louisville Times
Barefoot Boy
Dame Nature
Sour Dock
Simpson
Barefoot Farmer Boy
Jerry Simpson
Indianapolis Journal
Alberta Bach
Springdale Cemetery
George
Joseph Kramer
Edward House
John Weiner
Jacob Herbig
Charles Gaul
Chamberlain
Meberhart & Son
Lee
Hanover College
C. F. Harper Drug Store
C. J. Hood & Co
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
N.B
Pennsylvania Lines
Eewsyerss
Southport
Greenwood
Tytt
Whiteland
Franklin
Edinburg
Cornbrook
Columbus Elizabethton
Someens Ville
Ge Son
Jonesville
Sellersburg
Memphia
Henryville
Scottabur
Crotheraville
Seymour
Ga Columbus
North Warman
Meensville
Elizabethtown
Res
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Shelbyville
Anilla
Homer
Rey Ag Uth
Cambridge City
Cleveland
St.Louis
R’y Bie
Indianapolis
St. Louis de Chicago
R’y
Kankakee
Colimbua
Bee Line
America
Consolidated System
Murray
Martin
Woopwork
John T. Eitel
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