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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1891
Page
2
A writer questions sweeping judgments about remedies and urges trying Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription. The piece notes claims of success and offers a money back guarantee from the World's Dispensary Medical Association if no help is found.
The Kansas Commission notes mortgage indebtedness from the 1890 census. Total real and personal property value is about 290.6 million with mortgage debt of 235.5 million. Including state and railroad debt it reaches 292.7 million, about 27 percent of assessed value. Western counties bear most mortgage burden. Kansas remains fertile with strong rail links to Chicago and St Louis.
Washington reports a week of cool nights and varied crop results across states. New England sees light frosts with little damage. Pennsylvania notes maturing corn and a large, fine tobacco crop. southern states report rust, shedding, and delayed harvests, while Texas and California show mixed progress in cotton, corn, and fruit.
The schooner General Danning arrived from Fleats Island with cocoa nuts. While loading, storms blew her crew ashore in canoes twice. In the second voyage a shark attack killed eight of thirty eight castaways, with others injured and a man missing a leg after being seized.
Chauncy VanCleave, 40, is mortally wounded by Wil Forbes, 22, in a farm-area feud. Forbes surrendered after the shooting. bond set at 1500 dollars pending the wounded man’s condition. If VanCleave dies, Forbes will be rearrested and bail raised.
A Sunday fire in Oultt's grocery at Cape Blanc, Quebec, razed twenty nine houses and part of a Roman Catholic church. An infuriated mob nearly lynched Oultt before police saved him. Cape Blanc lies in a Quebec suburb.
The article promotes Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder as the purest option and claims other brands contain ammonia or alum. It asserts Price's blend has exact chemical proportions with no impurities, avoids bitter taste, preserves moisture, and enhances the natural sweetness of flour. It also notes the product contains the white of eggs and keeps pastry fresh.
A youth, believed to be 11 year old Alva Barr of Buda, died in New Providence Clark County after wandering homeward to Wisconsin. He entered town seeking food, grew ill and collapsed from a hemorrhage while resting in the street. Papers on his person suggested a wandering life despite decent parentage. relatives notified with no reply yet.
Dennis DeGray a Clark County farmer on a produce run to Jeffersonville escaped serious harm when his team bolted onto the tracks as a Peoria and St Louis engine approached. The wagon overturned, one horse killed, the other badly mangled and afterward shot. DeGray was uninjured.
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