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Newspaper
New Albany Weekly Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
8
An advertising note extols Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for dyspepsia and weak stomach, sour belching, heartburn, foul breath, and chronic catarrh. It claims to soothe mucous membranes and aid chronic coughs while warning it cannot cure advanced consumption. It urges use with Dr Sage s Catarrh Remedy for nasal issues.
District Superintendent W M Whitgett preached at Fredricksburg Methodist Church. Gooper Lodge Georgetown elected officers. Notices of deaths of Mrs Abbie Dodd and Dr Ollie Daniel. Berry shipments declining. frost damaged strawberries and blackberries. Foley’s Honey and Tar praised by O D Knoefel. Personal items list marriages and visits including J F Garvin, Miss Mary L Suellan, Henry K Miller, Miss Daisy M Taylor, and Mrs Sidney Voyle. Health notes on Mrs Samuel Armstrong and Miss Gertrude Stringham. California reader praises salve for piles.
Unknown man found dead with pistol in hand and a gaping bullet wound to the head. Police and investigators cordon off the scene as they probe the circumstances and potential foul play. No identifications have been released and the inquiry continues.
A body by a river road, about fifty five, clutching a revolver with a bullet wound is found five miles below the city. Coroner Starr rules death by self destruction though some doubt exists. The man wore fine clothes and carried a leather bag with two pairs of spectacles and a brass railroad check. Identifying details point to a possible Louisvile connection and a local burial follows for L A Elna of St Louis whose similar death last Friday was also noted.
The Rev James Dean son of Mrs Elizabeth Dean of West Fourth and Market streets died last Monday in Beatrice Nebraska hospital from typhoid fever. He was pastor of the United Brethren church at Seward Nebraska and had been hospitalized for treatment. His brother Benjamin Dean a Tea store worker received a sinking telegram and went to Beatrice. The body will be brought home for burial arriving Wednesday. He was thirty six, unmarried, and survived by his mother two brothers and three sisters including Misses Katie Tillie and Clara Dean and Rev Charles Dean of Columbia Kentucky. The family formerly lived in Marricon county and has resided in the city eight years. He had long served as a United Brethren minister and visited there recently.
Will H Voigt a leading Southern Indiana lawyer and Democratic politician plans to marry Lora Hill of Jeffersonville at the bride’s mother's home July 15. Hill, daughter of the late William H Hill, is described as a popular young woman while Voigt is tied to interurban development and the Indianapolis Louisville line. A separate note from W R Ward of Dyersburg Tennessee testifies to Urine Laxative Fruit Syrup helping chronic constipation with strong endorsement.
Frank Limback, a Southern Railway brakeman, failed to win a 210 500 award after the Supreme Court reversed an error in the trial court’s jury instructions. He argued he stayed in the caboose by conductor order during a rear collision near Duncan, while the railroad claimed he should have flagged the following train.
City Engineer Manno outlines Fifteenth street and East Tenth improvements with brick gutter six foot granitoid sidewalks and curb. Hearings on objections set for July 22. one favorable resident and potential switch request on McBeth Street for a new elevator site. Contract process with Southern railway to be presented to city council. Also notes East Main street asphalt assessment roll and next steps. Mother Gray herbal regulator ad ends fragment.
W W Hite president of the New Albany Coal Company died at his home near Louisville after a short illness. He was fifty four and had been a leading Louisville businessman and organizer of the coal firm with Louisa Meyer and Capt Steve Green. He was a son of W O Hite, long time master of steamboats in Louisville. BG Stewart, a Cedar View Minnesota merchant, touts Dr King’s Family Pills as valuable for constipation malaria and biliary conditions, sold under guarantee at Obas D Kove fel’s drug store.
A letter from L. UO. Rodvers of Branchtoo Pa. praises Foley's Kidney Care after six bottles allegedly restored his ability to work and even tie his shoes. The Weekly Tribune and Enterprise Chronicle notes the claim amid general health tips.
The Terre Haute Tribune notes a reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Evans on College avenue. They celebrate their thirty fourth anniversary with all their children and grandchildren present from Kokomo New Albany and local residents. A family dinner will be held on the lawn and a pyrotechnical display will entertain the children. Despite the distant attendees, the Evans clan gathers for the event.
City council acting on city attorney and attorney general opinions abolishes the sinking fund commission era, deeming the 20v7 depository law sufficient. The move is said to help reduce bonded indebtedness, while a stray line notes a claimed violation and a dental ad appears alongside unrelated sample offers.
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