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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1891
Page
7
Brownstown Knights of Pythias plan to dedicate their new castle hall on Thanksgiving Eve while Carrollton and nearby towns report coal finds hog deaths, church activities, school issues, and social events. The week features rail speed limits, fires, funerals, and multiple community notices across Kentucky towns.
Personal items from Carrollton, Charlestown, Locust, and surrounding towns record visits by Mrs. Beeler and children, Miss Addie Dorsey traveling to Dupont, Miss Nannie Branham to Rushville, a Smyrna township birth to Mr. and Mrs. Kohl, and various health and travel notes including Col. John Marsh’s condition and Joseph Rogers recovering from a broken leg.
River reports note coalmen seeking a rise at Pittsburg and Capt Samuel Bryant moving his family to Madison Rising Sun. Ongoing river work includes the Oliver Bierne and L T Armstrong fatalities, towboats rebuilt like Charlie McDonald, I N Hook sold to Evansville buyers, and dykes and channel work near French Island and Davis Island. Court action over L C D R K R R charter and taxes continues, with Evansville Cincinnati collaboration and New York investors cited. Old events include Christ Episcopal Church All Saints Day services and remarks on patent medicines amid river commerce.
A. P. Carter, Hawaiian minister to the United States, died at the Everett House in New York City after two months of illness. Born in Honolulu in 1837, he aided in the 1876 reciprocity treaty efforts and served as envoy extraordinary before his death.
A local Jeffersonville correspondent exposes a deadly tale as false after clarifying that Mrs. Margaret Peacock of Scott county suffered a paralytic stroke and minor injuries in a barn accident. The former sensational report claimed an assassin killed her, but evidence shows no foul play and the family aided her as she died.
Judge Friedley convened the Jefferson Circuit Court, with grand jury including Arbuckle Ulmer Walters Neal Stites and bailiffs named. The pettit jury not called until tomorrow as docket preparation dominates for a two week term. Peter Fertig fined 1 plus costs for assault on Les Clarkson. Chamberlains Pain Balm advertised for back pain and rheumatism by Heberhart & Son, World & Wim.
After twenty years of catarrh and loss of smell the writer shares how treatment restored hearing and sight. The author describes improved vision and hearing, noting prior difficulties with threading a needle and the impact on daily tasks.
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