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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1892
Page
3
A physician advertises portable instruments to examine and treat syphilis, scrofula, stricture, and women’s ailments including lenorrhea and womb displacement. He claims to cure many deemed incurable, with confidential consultations and free constitution. Address provided.
A panther prowls the woods near New Washington and local fields face frost risk. The item notes a band of gypsy horse-traders passing through town and the Seymour Volksblatt German weekly debuting today.
Judge Friedley opens circuit court with a rose bouquet from Almond Daniels. Bills of 300 dollars against A White & Company are ordered paid. William Frooks pleads guilty and posts 100 dollars bond for six months. Trials set for October 7 including Weber and Benson cases. Multiple minor cases bonded for appearance October 30. Fines and costs imposed for Sunday sales. Local note on dike system concerns and boatmen reports from Jeffersonville News.
Three statements extol Hood's Sarsaparilla as the most meritorious medicine with unequaled success and greatest cures. The ad claims Hood's Pills restore bowel peristalsis and invigorate the liver to relieve constipation.
The October number features a German issue in Romanée with many German writers translated for American readers. It includes a Review of a Decade of Civil Service Reform by John T. Doyle and a Cleveland vs Harrison comparison by Lucius B. Swift. Also an article on cholera by Dr. Lewis A. Sayre and pieces by M. Pierre Loti and Madame Modjeska. The issue promises further revelations following September’s voter venality study.
Old Hanover enters its sixty first year as forty new students boost total enrollment toward two hundred. Prof Garrit resigns as president, Dr Fisher arrives after quarantine, Rev P H K McComb joins as history and political science chair. Freshmen rise to fifty, seniors expect largest graduating class.
The Chicago Great Western Railway offers two harvest excursions to the West and Northwest on August 30 and September 27, 1892, at one fare round trip to principal territory points. An additional October 25 trip covers the South and Southwest with tickets valid twenty days. For details, contact a local agent or F. H. LORD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago Ill.
Levi Miller, a prominent Dunkard from Peru, Indiana, has completed an orphanage in Mexico to care for most children except cripples or idiotics. The frame buildings cost about 10,000 dollars, will train residents, and aim to place graduates in work. Frank Fisher will direct the home and trustees will manage it for the German Baptist church. In Indianapolis the Ancient Order of Hibernians held its state conference with 875 new members, a reception and ball at Masonic hall, and a midnight banquet at Hendricks club.
The document outlines an annual property tax of twelve cents per one hundred dollars and a fifty cent poll tax to fund state debts and operations. It notes later acts in 1891–1892 creating a Benevolent Institution Fund at six cents per hundred dollars, with the 1891 levy set to expire after the current year unless renewed.
Fort Wayne Indiana September 23. William J Moran a leading local figure told his family Monday night he would kill himself. He was later found unconscious and died early yesterday. A physician ruled morphine poisoning.
In Somerset near Rockcastle county line a trio of McFarland brothers attacked a Starlin boy during revival services, shooting him and leaving wounds likely fatal. They fled in a running fight and were captured and jailed.
An introduction promotes through car service from Chicago to the Pacific coast via the Wisconsin Central and Northern Pacific Railroads. It notes daily departures at 10:45 PM with Pullman Vestibuled and tourist cars and describes the scenic belt of the West and comfort of travel.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railway announces two Harvest Excursions from all points on its line to the West Northwest and Southwest at a single round trip fare. Departures are August 30 and September 27, 1892 with return validity of twenty days and stop over privileges in the excursion territory. Local agents or C G Jongs, District Passenger Agent, can provide rates and details.
Madison Indiana dentist M. Gooner promotes hygienic and medicinal mouth care as a specialty. He pledges thirty five years of trusted service from 1254 E Main St, Madison, and notes focus on prevention over costly repairs for all, including the poor.
Harvest excursions via the Burlington Route offer round trip tickets at a single fare to points in Kansas Nebraska Iowa Idaho Minnesota North and South Dakota Montana Wyoming Utah Colorado New Mexico Oklahoma Kansas City St Joseph and Southwest Missouri. Tickets will be sold August 30 and September 27. For full information contact a Burlington Route representative or A C Dawes Gen Pass and Ticket Agent St Louis Mo.
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