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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1891
Page
8
A fragmentary page lists Halloween preparations and social events including a Comet lab social hop on Thanksgiving Eve and a boy with a cabbage stalks trick. Mentions Simmons Liver Regulator products and local notices on fires, marriages, funerals, and burglaries.
Miss Lillie Tevis travels south for health gains and winter in Florida. Taxes due. Furus house fire. Charley Gertz keeps hardy Australian hens. Funeral pallbearers listed for Mrs. Collins. Alcuin Club resumes meetings on Jefferson street. Randall Korbly interacts with Board of Trade on railroad plans. Maylin injured on steamer Sherley at the wharf with severe head and arm injuries. November Circuit Court term opens with few cases. jurors named.
The Columbus Herald reported a skeleton found in an old Sardinia kitchen once owned by John Clendenning. local doctors doubt the claim, noting the skeleton is only about eleven inches long and arguing the tale ties to past forgeries rather than murder or infanticide.
Windy conditions sent dead leaves and embers along Broadway to Second Street as several street fires burned in a near continuous line. Louis Ernst helped extinguish a blaze at the McKim property, preventing damage to the building.
River notes report need for rain as Pittsburg rise fails. The Evansville Courier river column praised. Repairs on Charlie McDonald near finish in two weeks. The Helena sunk 60 miles above St Louis but raisable. Towboat activity and river traffic update with dredgeboats clearing channels. Local court actions include fines and trial dates. Uncalled letters listed for Madison Indiana post office with official notice.
Archie Guthrie travels to Calloway's station for a morning hunt. Walter Hilands and Albert Almond plan a trip to Turner Arkansas tomorrow. Larney McLaughlin’s condition worsens, Peter Fertig improves. Charles Benson recovers from lung fever. Mrs Will Daniel leaves for Chicago with the Captain after a visit. M A Farr moves through town to Edinburg on business. Mrs Mary D Riggs and Miss Georgie Bright visit Mrs Judge Allison in Shelbyville. Capt H B Foster’s health declines. his doctor urges a warmer climate and Southern California trip with his wife.
A lyric meditation on seasonal change contrasts the fading summer with October’s vivid palette. The poem describes frost spirits threatening harvests but October’s touch brings crimson sumac and purple mountains. Summer smiles, summons birds, and departs, leaving a wistful farewell scene from The Ladies' Home Journal.
The notice warns that damages will be assessed on all 1890 State and County taxes not paid by Monday November 2, 1891. It cautions against delaying payment to avoid a tax rush and possible delays in service.
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