Madison Busy Day Reports From Towns and Weddings
Local briefs record Mr S B Foltz visiting from Middlefork and Mrs Quincy Humes traveling to Wirt on business. Other notes include Nate Brown on the Republican train to Franklin Indiana, visits to Carrollton and Muncie, and marriages such as Clifford Darringer to Alice Fenney in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. B. Foltz
Middlefork
Quincy Humes
Wirt
Nate Brown
Franklin
Ind
Carrollton
C. A. Hilbert
Indianapolis
Messrs
Thomas and
William Turner
Muncie
Court News Highlights Divorces and Guardianships
Mrs Margarit Brooks of West Main is granted a divorce from William Frooke for cruelty and adopts her new name Davis. Emerson Lemen serves as attorney in multiple matters including guardianship of minors and a road vacation petition in Monroe township. Additional items note divorces for Jacob Taylor and Gertrude McLaughlin, probate work, and possible murder trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margarit Brooks
West Main Street
Willian Frooke
Davis
Emerson Lemen
Bera’ienuy
Iont
Smyrne
Io Berett
Samuel
Henry Porter
Emerson Emen
Charles W. Denny
Monroe Township
Commissioners Court
Gillum
Switzerland
Sherman
Charles Crozier
Louis Conner Minor
Francisco
Jacob Taylor
Graham Township
Annie Taylor
Lamb
Emerson Lomen
Clara Hooker
Elizabeth Blackford
Robert A. J. McKeand
Elizabeth A. Blackford
Saluda
P. E. Bear
Indiana Rifemen Win Medals At Fort Riley Texas?
Adjutant General Bridges received a message from Capt Herbert A Luckey detailing Indiana National Guardsmen rifle team success at Fort Riley Kansas. The First Infantry unit scored 697 to place fourth while the Second Infantry ranked fifth with multiple individual honors for Sergeant Driggs and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridges
Herbert A. Luckey
Indiana National
Franks J Cheney oath on oath form 1863 notice
Frank J. Cheney of Cheney & Co a Toledo business swears and is bound to pay one hundred dollars for each OARLARSH item not cured. Notary public dated November 11 1863. Hall's Catarrh Cures advertised with testimonials and pharmacy sales across Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Chenuy
Partas
F.d. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Scunty
Tate
Hall
Paris Dressmakers Face Mass Unemployment Amid Collections
Paris reports over six thousand dressmakers without work as frequent collections threaten steady employment and crowding orders thin the market. The note highlights economic strain in the fashion trades and impacts on city labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Campaign issues in Indianapolis race outline mixed signals
Oct 7 dispatch notes unclear stances on constitutional convention woman suffrage and liquor policy. Republicans distance themselves from the convention issue while Bull Moose and Democrats show little emphasis. Labor and anti saloon groups offer limited mobilization with most focus on finances and general campaign positioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dianapolis
Isua
Bull Moosers
Anti-Saloon League
State Federation of Labor
Endowment Fund Grows at Hanover College
Hanover Ind October 7 over 100000 has been subscribed for the Hanover college endowment fund from a canvass begun at the Synod of Indiana in Peru in 1913. An effort to raise 250000 is planned with approval from the Presbyterian general assembly in Chicago. The endowment committee reports to the Synod of Indiana at Hanover today. two years are set to raise the full amount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
Ind
Hanover College
Synod of Indiana
Peru
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Chicago
Art's Friend Rescues U S Watercolor Paints
A Chicago report explains a stockyard cow supplies humble aid to American art as water color paintings stay stocked despite the European war. A local paint maker warns of closure after German brushes vanish, but investigations show cow ear hair can craft brushes equal to those imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Chamber of Commerce
Germany
Dr Kings New Discovery Cures Longstanding Coughs
Mrs David Moor of Saginaw Alabama praises Dr King s New Discovery for curing her husband fifteen years of cough and son eight years promising the remedy stops hacking coughs relieves la grippe and lung ailments with money back if it fails distributed by all druggists and Harper s drug store priced at 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
David Moor
Saginaw
Ala
la Grippe
Harper's Drug Store
German War Letter Details Frontline Hardship and Homefront Anxiety
A Sept 7 letter from Wuertemberg, Germany, written by a soldier’s wife, describes soldiers’ experiences and homefront distress. She notes rapid German mobilization, night exposure, and widespread misery, yet German confidence in eventual victory and claims of Allied atrocities. The letter foresees a major European map change and long war duration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dehler
Wuertemberg
Germany
Austria
Europe
Honest Abe Arrested Over Chickens Gifting Sign
In Chicago on October 7, Honest Abe Frank a local vendor known as Honest Abe attached a sign to his wagon claiming chickens cost him no more than before the war. Police accuse him of lifting fifteen chickens from coops at Glen Ellyn Alabama, noting he obtained them in the same manner as before the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Abe Frank
Abe
Glen Illyn
State Ticket and Democratic County Ticket listed for election
United States Senator Benjamin F Shively and state offices led by Homer L Cook George A Bittler Dale J Crittenberger Richard Milburn J Fred France Edward Barrett Charles A Greathouse Moses B Lairy Joseph G Ibach Frederick 8 Caldwell Milton B Hottel Edward Felt Frank M Powers appear on the Democratic slate with local posts including Lincoln Dixon Griffith Cotton Jackson Cravens Noell Lytle Werring Jr Buchanan and G Rodgers for county and district offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Benjamin F. Shively
Homer L. Cook
George A. Bittler
Dale J. Crittenberger
Richard Milburn
Supreme Court
J. Fred France
Edward Barrett
Charles A. Greathouse
Moses B. Lairy
Appellate Court
Joseph G. Ibach
Frederick 8. Caldwell
Milton B. Hottel
Edward W. Felt
Frank M. Powers
Synod attendees listed as they returned home this morning
A list shows attendees and destinations from the Hanover Synod meeting. Names include T A Carson Fowler Ind H M Campbell Greensburg Ind S L Jackson Greensburg Ind C L Prentis Romney Ind George Rauch Romney Ind A W Buchanan Vincennes Rev J B Ferguson Franklin Mr Buchanan Indianapolis W H Reynolds Greensburg Rev E A Varneys Goshen Mr Hoston Washington DC Mr Harrick Elkhart Ind Mr Campbell Kingston Samuel Jackson Kingston H C Shook Princetown S L Jackson Greensburg Alfred Martin Danville. City council met in special session to open bids for connecting the deep well to Mc Gowan pumps for direct suction. One bid from C R Johnson for 1058 dollars was rejected and new bids were ordered. Council adjourned after vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Westover
Seattle
Washington
Sweazy
Hanover
Rising Sun
Harry Chapman
Crawfordsville
Clifford Darringer
North Vernon
Chicago
Alice Fenney
Sacramento
Cal
E. C. Kinnear
Smyrna Township
Jeffries
Chester Leon
George Gray
Canaan
Canaan Church
E. C. Cook
Indianapolis
Rochester
Mino
Ed. Cochran
Rykers Ridge
Lexington
Peter Volo
Jesse Amos
Ind
Laura Copple
Nabb
Arens
Lutheran Church
Crozier
Charles Pains
Fred Chrisman
Chrisman
Madison Light & K. R. Co
Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins
Ira Reidel
Mr. Reidel
T. A. Carson
Fowler
H. M. Campbell
Greensburg
S. L. Jackson
C. L. Prentis
Romney
George Rauch
A. W. Buchanan
Vincennes
J. B. Ferguson
Franklin
Mr. Buchanan
W. H. Reynolds
E. A. Varneys
Goshen
Hoston
Washington, D. C
Harrick
Elkhart
Campbell
Kingston
Samuel Jackson
H. C. Shook
Princetown
Alfred Martin
Danville
Unsee Telice and the Odd Courtship Tale
A fragment from the Houston Post recounts a dialogue where a suitor asks the girl's father for consent. The father’s reaction is cryptic and the suitor notes a peculiar look the girl supposedly wore. The piece blends humor and suspicion around marriage permission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marrige
Ife
Houston Post
Forest Lovers Train Meeting at Oakland Branch
A woodman promises to return and boards the two o’clock train from Oakland branch. The scene ends with a joyful kiss from a young woman as her dogwood dog barks, marking a sweet farewell. The brief note appears in the New York Mail with poetic imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland Branch
Mark
New York Mail
No, My Wife Wouldn’t Want Dinosaurs As Pets
A weary man jokes that his wife would surely want a dinosaur or pterosaur as a pet if such creatures existed, contrasting with fancy bred dogs in a light exchange cited by the Washington Star.
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Washington Star
Weathering Harvest Fair and Aboard Confusion Idyll
A verse about a small hamlet hosting a fall fair and a weather man predicting foul conditions. The second piece features an elderly passenger on her first sea voyage asking about steerage and whether many people power the ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Electric Bitters advertised as spring health tonic
A vintage advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a four week system cleanser for spring fever. It claims to purify blood, stimulate kidneys and liver, restore health and energy, and guarantees results. Available at Harper's drug store for 6500 and 1. The text then oddly shifts to describe a fashionable ball gown and weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Drug Store
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Indiana Riflemen
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J. Quenay & Co
Toleo
Wll
Dvcagists
Halle Family
Sonstinetion
The
IF. F. Bigar
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Art
ADV
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Democratic
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Lincoln Dixon
Francis Marion Griffith
Wallace J. Cotton
Rowland H. Jackson
Joseph M. Cravens
Andrew M. Taff
Edward Jeffries
George A. Monroe
William J. McBride
Benjamin Noell
Andrew H. Lytle
William Werning, JR
Thomas V. Buchanan
G. Rodgers
McGowan
C. R. Johnson
Oliver
Wiccman
Puck
Wayside Country
Spokane Spokesman-Review
Stockholders’ Meeting
Madison Insurance Co
J. K. Weyer
Sec’y
Firemen & Mechan
Ics’ Insurance Co
David Johnson
W. O. McLelland
Madison Safe Deposit & Trust Company
Steeds
First National Bank
Dward Kampe
L. K. Scheike
Vashier
J. F. Niesse
America
M. Strader General Agent
South Mulberry Street
D. Swift & CO
Seventh St
Electric Bitters
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