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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1914
Page
3
Madison Herald outlines how the Hanly administration used the three cent sinking fund to pay current state expenses, transferring approximately $1.5 million to the general fund in 1905 1907. The fund was later restored for 1908 1909 with a new transfer authority.
The Democratic slate lists Lincoln Dixon for Congress Fourth District Francis Marion Griffith for Judge Wallace J. Cotton for Prosecuting Attorney Rowland H. Jackson for Joint Senator Joseph M. Cravens for Representative Andrew M. Taff for Auditor Edward Jeffries for Treasurer George A. Monroe for Sheriff William J. McBride for Recorder Benjamin Noel for Assessor Andrew H. Lytle for Coroner William Werning Jr. for Surveyor Thomas V. Buchanan for Upper District Commissioner L G Rodgers for Lower District Commissioner
Advertising puff claims Electric Bitters cleanses blood and purifies kidneys and liver during winter buildup. It targets fatigue and weakness, urging a four week course to improve energy for work. Sold by druggists for $1 at Harper's.
Manly D. Wilson of Madison was nominated for Congress by the Fourth District Republicans without opposition. Judge P. E. Bear of Madison gave the nomination speech, seconded by Andrew Percifield of Brown County. Wilson delivered an acceptance speech to enthusiastic cheers.
A skeptical critique questions Republican silence on Indiana's 1913 vocational education law praised by Superintendent Greater as a landmark. The piece contrasts Republican and Progressive platforms from 1912 to 1914, noting calls for industrial and agricultural education and contrasting party stances with Democratic enactment.
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British Ambassador, apologized to the United States for Sir Lionel Carden's remarks criticizing President Wilson's Vera Cruz troop withdrawal. He presented the apology in person at the State Department, offering fullest contrition for the indiscreet interview.
Madison woman Mrs John Spangler, married six weeks, searches for her husband who left Madison to return to his Dublin Ohio home. She reports a letter saying he planned to go away for good and asks for information on his whereabouts and intentions.
Unofficial state returns show Oakley C. Curtis Democratic Mayor of Portland leading Governor William T. Haines Republican by about 3300 votes. Results indicate Democrats will hold a two seat majority on the joint legislative ballot, with big gains for both parties and a slump for the Progressive vote.
Petersburg Indiana September 14 Are Thur Maxwell nineteen was killed in a motorcycle race at Winslow Fair Grounds after noon. His machine left the track and he was thrown against a farm wagon fracturing his skull and he died five minutes later. He had jokingly told his mother to have an ambulance meet a big train before entering the races.
Mrs. Martha Gant leaped from an upper story window in her daughter’s Columbus home amid a belief she was pursued by someone intending harm. She died hours later from injuries, never recovering from a prior mental shock tied to her son’s lightning death years earlier.
Prominent Chicago civic leader Dean Walter T. Sumner was today elected Episcopal Bishop of Oregon. A letter to the editor argues against alcohol use, asserting alcohol is unnecessary in medicine and condemning misstatements about its origins and effects.
A testimonial from Hono. W. Matthews, Commissioner of Labor Statistics in Augusta Maine, states Dean's Ointment cured eczema permanently after long irritation.
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