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Newspaper
New Albany Weekly Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1901
Page
7
An old advertisement promises quick earnings selling a self help book How To Be a Beautiful Woman. It claims high commissions and rapid orders, citing Mrs. A. L. Morse of Tippecanoe County Indiana and Houser Hess Pub Co in Indianapolis.
John Swink received a patent for a magazine firearm yesterday. William Craig gained an original pension of 12 dollars monthly. Cyrus Perkins qualified as executor of his father Thomas T. Perkins. Frances Cooms was granted a divorce and awarded $300 alimony. Lena Spieth died in Bedford last week. Noah Aran and Fannie Pyburn were married at the home of Emily Jocelyn. Anna Middleton died at 421 West First Street, aged 31, leaving two children. County board of review appointees were named. Isadore Bennett died in Verte Township. Appeal cases against Edward McCulloch were dismissed. Alfred Sillings and Mayme Klaiber wed. they will live on West Fifth Street. Ethel Sullivan filed for divorce from William J. Sullivan. The will of Thomas T. Perkins was probated with executors Mary O. Perkins and Cyrus. Percy Goss, age unspecified, was badly injured after a horse threw him on a Weavilleton road cross.
The June term of the county commissioners opened Monday with expected action on county jail repairs urged by several grand juries and the State Board of Charities and Correction. Barbara Silz won a $200 judgment in her $5,000 damages suit against New Albany Box and Barker Co for injuries to her son Fred. verdict reached about 8 pm Saturday. A. O. Blanchard of West Bangor N Y reports kidney disease relief after two bottles of Ferry's Kidney Cure, as sold by all druggists.
Sellersburg Indiana positions itself as a rising town in Clark County cement region with growing population and business. New telephone switchboard system and metallic network installed serving over a hundred subscribers. Plans include connecting cement mills to St Joe and extending line to New Albany for Home Telephone system.
A Saturday evening riot near Edwardsville left Mrs. Joseph Dean with a dislocated shoulder blade and Clarence Kelly badly wounded by Tolliver Oakes fire from a double barreled shotgun. Deputies arrested Pat Mason Horace Holyoke Daniel Brinley Edward Minter and Tolliver Oakes and jailed them on the county charge.
A series of land transfers listed with grantor and grantee names, lot and plat references, street locations, and consideration amounts. Transactions include Helene Harmes to Gustave Harmes on lot 9 plat 47 for 650 dollars and Ida F. Jones to Emma Oldham on Morton avenue for 500 dollars, among others.
Winchester Indiana resident M. M. Austin writes of his wife’s long illness and swift recovery after using Dr. King’s New Life Pills. He notes the medicine cured her despite prior medical treatment, available for 25 cents.
Thomas J. Obenchain 48 residing at 429 Bank street died suddenly Saturday afternoon from cerebral apoplexy while bathing at Balser Kohl’s barbershop 225 Pearl street. Coroner Starr ruled the death. he left behind a wife two daughters and a son and was a member of the Todd-Obenchain Company. Remains shipped to Logansport for burial.
An old practitioner offers a powder and treatment named Snuffles the Guaranteed Catarrah Cure. Priced at one dollar, it claims to reach the disease inside the membranes and provides internal and external medicines. The notice urges immediate order and promises guidance from the discoverer. Also included are brief anecdotes and a claim that Rocky Mountain Tea boosts vitality.
Mrs Albert Hopkins learns of the drowning of her nephew James Rudy Colson in the Schuylkill river while boating with a party of nine near midstream and the Flat Rock dam. John Moore was the sole survivor as rescue efforts continue for Colson's body. the boy had recently visited Philadelphia from Louisville where his family formerly lived.
The description highlights a woman thriving on outdoor activity and good food, her form and face showing health and bloom. For cleansing needs she uses Syrup of Figs by the California Fig Syrup Co, a gentle laxative remedy.
A New York Journal account recounts two odd fishing tales. One man claims a watch found in a cod caught years later, wound by a fish’s liver and five hours fast. Another tale describes a trout that smoked a cigarette and pipe, then was served as self smoked trout at Christmas.
The ad claims Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cures sores blotches pimples eruptions fever sores boils ulcers carbuncles felons and helps cuts corns burns scalds and piles. It guarantees this remedy at 25 cents under C D Knoefel’s name.
A veteran newspaper obituary writer recalls a late life secret wedding by a northern English bishop. The rumor spread quietly, the ceremony took place unseen, and the writer attended the vestry scene to record the registrar signing. The encounter ends with a cordial, public congratulations from the diocese. Rocky Mountain Tea ad promotes 35c relief for blemishes and pimples.
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