Storm Damage Hits Vincennes Downtown Shops
A storm ripped plate glass from downtown Vincennes stores causing scattered damage. Officials say it will take several weeks to repair and secure the storefronts.
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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1913
Page
3
A storm ripped plate glass from downtown Vincennes stores causing scattered damage. Officials say it will take several weeks to repair and secure the storefronts.
An advertisement urges homeowners to join local mutual insurers in Indiana and nearby counties. It touts fire and lightning coverage by the Farmues Mutual Insurance Company and hail windstorm cyclone protection by the Indiana Mutual Cyclone Insurance Company. It notes historically low annual assessments over five years and lists solicitors W. W. Hamerick and Alexander Plair.
Work on the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument on the courthouse lawn in Washington is delayed for days due to granite not arriving. A derrick is ready, but the first Vermont car load is lost and a second car seven days late, with tracers sent from the shipping point to locate the missing material.
The fragment notes a photograph described as taken before marriage and hints at the subject's many admirers, suggesting a lively social history.
An advertisement claims Birch Mountain Herb Tea purifies and heals bronchitis asthma and various ailments without alcohol or narcotics. It asserts home preparation in five to seven minutes, promises life improvement and rapid health changes, and guarantees satisfaction with the product.
Herman A Marmaduke a Knox county farmer wed Miss Hazel G Russell of Elnora at 8 oclock Saturday afternoon in the Washington County Clerk W H Kiefers office. Marmaduke is son of Charles E Marmaduke a Washington native and the bride daughter of Henry L Russell a noted Elmore township citizen.
Indiana health report for February shows smallpox widespread with no deaths. Births outpaced deaths. pneumonia caused 889 deaths, tuberculosis 327 total, polio 3 deaths, and hydrophobia one. Deaths peaked in Perry and Ohio counties with varying birth rates across regions.
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