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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1891
Page
7
A wide run of small items covers jail additions and refusals, marriages, fines, church events, funerals, a bell dedication, and local oddities. Reports include a prison warden loosening mustaches for convicts, a bet on meat inspection, and scattered deaths and burials in Hanover area churches and cemeteries.
C P Richards of New Albany suffered multiple episodes of nose and mouth bleeding across three years. Each attack included purplish body blotches and progressively severe weakness, with the latest bleeding lasting until the 13th of the month and leaving him critically weak. Indianapolis News reported the sequence and gravity of his condition.
The report details James Stevens of Moores Hill with a pulse of thirty two per minute and cites two similar cases. W H Baker of Manchester had a heart rate of thirty per minute for eighteen months before death. Zephaniah Heutis, from the same village, shows a pulse of thirty six for six weeks yet claims good health except after intense exertion.
County committee from Jefferson County Indiana met in the sheriff’s office to organize the Farmers Institute set for December 17 and 18 in the county courthouse. Prof Latta and Hon J H Mount expected as instructors. extensive home talent and visitors from Ohio anticipated. city and county foster cooperation urged. A war era anecdote about Col Caldwell and Capt Hahe ends with Hahe’s soldiers marching in and Hahe later thriving in Chicago.
Energetic efforts are underway to seize delinquent taxes in Switzerland County. The Rising Sun Recorder notes that business owners and salaried individuals have long avoided payment, but enforcement under oath will compel tax payments from all who operate a business or household. Even homeless youths could lose their coat for taxes.
River dispatches report coal freighting by the time, 10 million bushels to start, and prospects for raising John Fowler sunk at Brandenburg with E A Woodruff aiding. The old Gen Pike hull will be removed for a new coal-landing wharf. Steamboat notes cover Rex bringing news of A R Bragg wreck on Current river, new steel hull passenger propeller built at Jeffersonville, Fleetwood fast in trade, Big Sandy to run mail, plus local arrivals and visits in Madison and Carrollton.
A dense list of Madison market rates for grains produce coal and groceries including wheat red, corn, oats and several seeds with prices. The page also carries medical testimonials and ads for remedies such as Golden Medical Discovery Ely's Cream Balm Chamberlains products Electric Bitters and a general druggist roundup with claims of cures and guarantees.
A New York society man instructs a colored servant to hand a note to Mrs. Lively without telling anyone. The servant agrees to keep silent while recalling past quiet deliveries. The piece ends with a bustling kitchen scene where the cook studies kitchen books about turkey.
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