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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1915
Page
3
In New York the Civic Forum awarded a gold medal to Phonyan Aldison, highlighting the inventor’s challenge to translate scientific ideas into practical form. The article discusses how true invention blends science with usable value, noting risks of missteps and the need for business backing.
Fragmentary OCR describes a sleep record and a night event at a town race? Mentions a dormitory with skins on rafters and a student paying for something. Names like Zindser Bros and Williams appear, but many words are garbled making the precise event and entities uncertain.
Four year old Jimmy Glass vanished on May 12 near a farm house while seeking his mother who had gone to the Greeley post office. Search efforts include woods, lakes, dynamited dam bottoms, bloodhounds, and a $100 reward for the body dead or alive as Miss Mathilda Engelbrecht seeks help from New York City police and press outlets.
A thief steals the savings bank of three boys at a Greensburg barber shop. About $30 to $50 vanished Monday along with the bank itself. How the thief entered and exited remains a mystery.
In Manchester Ohio on Monday night a 15 month old boy, son of Glen Hook, fell into a bucket with four inches of water and drowned. Local authorities investigated the incident as a tragic accidental drowning.
Beware of ointments for catarrh containing mercury as it damages smell and the body. Do not use unless prescribed by reputable physicians. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo contains no mercury and is taken internally. Sold by druggists for 75 cents per bottle. Hall's Family Pills recommended for sanitation.
The seventh annual Monroe township Bible school convention met at Hebron church on Sunday with readings, prayers, and a long program. Key speakers urged home teaching, Bible school involvement, and temperance, noting 13 million teen boys in the U S with many not in Bible school and recounting sheriff records on liquor related arrests. Officers elected include Carl Paugh as president and Lillian Weat as secretary treasurer.
At Bedford Indiana May 19 a widower Charles Peel and Mrs Nick Smith who were arrested at Linton over an affidavit charging a statutory offense caused a dramatic scene when they arrived by train. Smith warned of her husband’s threat to kill them both and Peel tried to attack. He was overpowered after a struggle at the depot.
Columbus reports William Winfrey a railroad station agent confessed to the coroner he killed Robert Samples with a carpenter's plane after Samples fired a shotgun. He says self defense in an old fence line dispute that renewed trouble. Samples was found dead with a crushed skull in Grammar.
Evansville educators defend spending over ten thousand dollars on sweets despite concerns. They note restaurants near public schools rely on children for revenue, but argue candy aids study and nourishes the mind, while officials discourage in-school candy use.
New York reports American officers describe German torpedoes used against Lusitania as high speed at close range. They note speeds over 40 knots underwater, ranges under 1,000 yards, and advanced mechanisms including gyroscope guidance and a torpedo director for aiming.
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