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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1915
Page
4
Edison Herald notes Republican leaders once charged Democrats with incompetence but argues Democratic leadership has reduced Indiana's debt to near zero. It claims state finances are sound, with responsible public service and adherence to fiscal duties, contrasting past criticisms with current performance.
Washington October 7. Dr Harvey W Wiley campaigns for a federal ruling to bar whiskey and brandy from drug stores after the new pharmacopoeia law. Commissioner Osborne rules the sale remains allowed if the shop pays a $25 annual tax or if the liquor is medicated to prevent beverage use.
Jeffersonville Oct 7 Peter Henry Bottorff aged 88 died at his Utica home after long infirmities. A longtime Methodist Episcopal preacher in the Seymour district he rode horses until two years ago. Survived by his third wife, a son from his first marriage, and an adopted son. Owned a 130 acre bluegrass farm in Utica township.
An old advertisement touts Mothers Dr Bob Pico Tar Honey as a cure for whooping coughs in children. It promotes honey and pine as mucous looseners and claims the product opens airways, with a strong push for families to buy the 2500 bottle option.
Franklin Indiana observed Riley day with the Fourth district veterans reunion. By noon 202 veterans from 31 posts registered as streamers and flags adorned streets. A morning program at the Monument and opera house featured welcome by Ellen L Branigan and remarks by Capt A D Vanesdal and Lincoln Dixon.
At the forty seventh annual K of P grand lodge session in Indiana the measure to raise the initiation fee from ten to twenty dollars was defeated. The tuberculosis hospital proposal was referred to five representatives for the supreme lodge meeting with James Watson, John Lewis, John Gaither, Arla Brown, and Will Hart listed as delegates.
Mrs L A Harvey, who sells tickets for a Main Street theater, was struck by a marble thrown from the pavement in Clinton Indiana. The marble shattered glass, cut her nose, and caused a scare she mistook as a gunshot before collapsing and receiving stitches. Police linked the marble to a passing car tire.
An advertisement touts Dr King's New Discovery as the best way to end a cold quickly. It claims dangers follow neglect and urges readers to buy a bottle priced at 59 cents to $1.
Mrs. Bowser wakes to find no cook and a Monday wash looming. Mr. Bowser hires a strong tramp to do the laundry, leading to blue clothes, a chaotic misadventure, a shocked cook, and a relieved but weary household.
A Washington Star quips about women gaining voting rights, imagining a future where questions of voting trump concerns about attire, reflecting social change and the push for suffrage beside a comment on butterflies.
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