05 Apr 1882
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1882
Page
1
A nostalgic poem recalls a mother watching her daughter leave for school and, later, a quiet home evening with Nell and Sue. The verse contrasts morning rush with evening tasks, noting girls' industriousness and the need for balance between work and play.
A affectionate address from a sender in verse to a fellow poet. The speaker praises the friend’s art and beauty, imagining seas crossed for joy and describing luminous imagery of eyes, hair, and natural splendor. The tone is reverent and celebratory, with repeated coins of light and nature.
The fragment depicts a speaker on a moving train contrasting a rich observer named Old Money-bags with a rustic king. One pursues leisure while the other toils in the market, framing life as a paean read in different measures. The Kokomo Tribune backs the meditation on rest versus work.
Poem fragment contrasts the sea and shore with longing for a distant touch of a woman's hand. Fisher and sailor boys are praised for their cries and songs while ships reach their haven. The speaker laments a dead day that cannot return.
Report from Warsaw describes a bright red meteor moving at high speed in a snow storm, exploding with a loud boom heard eleven miles away. Men near the blast were blinded by the light for up to a day. the Republican paper is blamed, though the event location and destination of the observers remain uncertain.
An 187 West street New York ticket office headed by C. V. V. Ward shares a testimonial from a Brooklyn Eagle representative about overcoming rheumatism in the right arm using St Jacobs Oil after friends recommended it. The claimant notes full recovery before finishing a second bottle.
The Free Press of New Albany notes frost has killed half the fruit crop but promises better quality remaining. A local speaker, Josh Bixes, links a robin with red breast to cherry and currant robbing, suggesting a playful nickname for the 306 order robonze stalwarts.
The piece notes impatient lottery hopefuls blame Don Cameron and machine politics for slow payouts. It cites a German con artist in Indianapolis who bought a Singer machine for 106 and fled with 115.60 in bogus check change, illustrating confidence games tied to appearance.
A public discussion argues for clemency for a condemned sergeant who shot at the cell of an assassin of the president. Critics say pardoning could erode army discipline while defending the soldier as a loyal, long-serving serviceman amid broader calls for justice. References compare treatment of the soldier to other wartime decisions and racial double standards in official acts.
A Fourth District Republican meeting in Lawrenceburg on March 3 called a Congressional Convention for the first Wednesday in August at 10 am. Delegates: one for every 150 Porter votes plus one for each fraction of 100 and over. M. D. Tackerr chairs, J. E. Lanter secretary.
The Detroit Free Press recounts Brother Abraham Scott’s drunken behavior. The president denounces Scott as a brute and thief of funds, expelling him from the group and warning others against drinking. Various quips and moral reflections follow in the humorous miscellany.
The American Enterprise extols the Lightning Running New Home sewing machine as the ultimate domestic and manufacturing tool. It highlights simplicity, durability, and superior capacity, claiming it surpasses all rivals and invites readers to request the illustrated catalogue from Johnson, Clark Co. at 30 Union Square, New York.
A literary line describes a man boasting about himself before he receives a kiss described as a kiss for a blow, signaling a tense, intimate moment and fraught emotional exchange.
For any case of weakness ill health dyspepsia indigestion nervous debility urinary disorder lung trouble liver complaint or any chronic affection that Brown's Iron Bitters will not relieve.
A New Albany man Richard Malbon left his wife years ago and was thought dead. She remarried and had children, only for Malbon to return, accept the situation, and avoid further upset. The piece suggests lasting marriage stability requires ongoing communication from absent spouses.
An old advertisement touts Brown's Bronchial Troches as relief for asthma catarrh consumption and throat diseases. It claims physicians have recommended them for thirty years and that public speakers and singers use them to clear and strengthen the voice. Sold for seventy two cents per box widely.
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