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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1880
Page
1
A poem recalls Wyn Riel and a man who longs to ease a woman's burden. He kneels and kisses her white hands as labor and life persist beyond joy, yet no wedding ring or fulfilled vow brightens their path. The scene lingers on a bleak window, pale light, and unfulfilled duty.
A reflective poem fragment questions who preserves dead flowers and conjures imagery of faded roses, memory, and a lover's return. The speaker imagines celestial blooms reviving in a heavenly sphere and compares them to earthly flowers.
A fragmentary verse contrasts two groups as light and shadow mingle. It portrays waiting in quiet suburbs versus heavenly realms, with cries for prayer and steady praise from both sides amid sorrow and faith.
A fragmented narrative depicts a failing life, wasted experiences, and a bleak future as debts loom from a doctor lawyer and nurse. Ghosts and symbolic scenes mark a final journey ending with a tomb, urn, willow, and a carved lie in stone.
A fragmented line hints at last year violets, petals, and a farewell greeting. The text reads like a stray poem fragment recalling a moment of bloom and departure.
A long extract surveys animals using self destruction to end suffering or escape. It cites dogs, a Caithness collie, a Newfoundland, a captive monkey, a canvasback duck, fowl, African lake incidents, a Southern India scorpion, and a New Zealand trap door spider, noting drowning, starvation, poisoning, and stinging as methods alongside observed distress and perceived intent.
A Providence woman describes a long struggle with neuralgia and general weakness. She notes she began using a certain remedy three months ago and claims it is the only medicine suitable for her family.
A large woman with a brick-red complexion boarded a Bay City depot yesterday before a Detroit-bound train. She insisted her dog Leonidas ride in the baggage car and threatened to create a scene if denied. The conductor relented and allowed the dog aboard as the train prepared to depart.
A miscellany of quips and observations touching manners, language, and humor. It ends with a discussion of Wisconsin women’s suffrage, noting a leap year moment as legislators debate extending the vote to unmarried women while married women already gain entry pending constitutional changes.
A collection of humorous quips and anecdotes from a Civil War era exchange. Stories include a brigadier’s failed command to a fleeing soldier, humorous marriage and church fair remarks, remarks on aging and beauty, and social quips about fashion and childcare. The piece ends with garbled text and an invitation for correspondence.
A note on the washing of the celebrant’s hands and the inaudible Canon of the Mass. A seventeenth century recluse relates a legend approved by the Council of Nice about boys mimicking Mass in Apamea Syria. A meteor-like fire struck the mock celebrant, leading a bishop to build a church at the site to commemorate the event and explain secret recitation.
An English visitor in Texas seeks barber shop repairs and sees a loaded gun. A local inmate jokes that rushing one may end a six shooter. The tale recalls an English tourist who asks about a revolver for Arkansas with a quip about timing and need.
An advertisement urges readers to take Kidney-Wort at first signs of illness describing bilious head heaviness foul mouth yellow eyes and kidney disturbance as a preventive aid. A wartime reminiscence mentions Rick wens and Joe Case lina with a Carolina remark about South Carolina.
Fragmentary OCR text yields no clear event or entities. The readable portion contains stray letters and words that do not form a coherent person, organization, place, date, or outcome to summarize as a news item.
A Pennsylvania physician reports a crude petroleum preparation as a cure for tuberculosis. In twenty-five cases with well-marked TB, he says twenty were cured or materially helped, all within four months. The semisolid oil pills produced rapid symptom relief including cough and night sweats, with weight gain.
A 65 year old woman living in Morrillton Conway County Arkansas has married fourteen times with her fourteenth husband alive. The home features thirteen pegs with hats named John Tom Abe Bill and others. She boasts wide connections and many relatives who are prominent in the area.
A fragment from a reader's quip shows a tobacco quarrel between a man and an older Negro woman. The man asks if she is Christian and cites Bible passages as he insists the pipe fumes block him from heavenly entry. The woman responds with a pragmatic retort.
An Italian vineyard scene features young Perugia women treading grapes in large vats while others gather and press fruit. The piece notes healthful, festive activity, culminating in hot wine washes and dancing as a holiday practice.
An old farmer valued hired men who habitually whistled, hiring whistlers who kept food warm for lambs and eggs intact, closed gates, tightened plows, and treated animals gently. He observed whistling workers were careful, thrifty, and avoided abusive or rushed driving of livestock.
A dated list of maxims argues it is better to be debt free, Christian, handsome, ambitious, honest, and meek than to be in debt, sinful, ungainly, indifferent, or unjust. It favors lawful wealth over crime and praises virtue over vanity.
A Harper's Weekly discussion questions if a third presidential term could be justified despite two-term tradition and whether such action would normalize perpetual rule. An 1862 Mississippi regiment anecdote contrasts scripture belief with infidel doubt after Shiloh, illustrating wartime religious tensions.
The readable text fragment mentions regulation and a specialty area but lacks coherent detail or identifiable entities to form a complete news item. No concrete actions, dates, or people are discernible from the fragment.
A vintage ad lists various sugar products including sorghum molasses drip syrup brown and white sugars. Prices shown are 33 cents per gallon and 83 cents per pound for selected items.
Kidney Complaints of all description are relieved at once and speedily cured by Kidney-Wort. It seems intended by nature for the cure of all diseases of the kidneys caused by weakness and debility. Its great topic powers are especially directed to the removal of this class of diseases. Try it today. Rule of three wife mother-in-law and maiden aunt. A wife in the house is worth two in the street.
After Sunday March 11 1879 trains run between Jeffersonville Madison Indianapolis and North Vernon with North bound and South bound services. Northbound Accommodat n Mail depart Madison 3 00 pm 6 10 2 9 am arrive North Vernon 5 20 pm 7 29 am Columbus 8 00 pm 8 10 am Indianapolis 10 50 pm 7 25 am St Louis 3 15 am Southbound Accommodat n Mail leave Indianapolis 4 10 am 2 50 pm Columbia 7 0 am 4 8 pm North Vernon 9 45 am 6 06 pm arrive Madison 12 20 am 7 25 pm
The New York Weekly Herald cites tripled circulation and offers foreign telegraphs, Washington political reports, farm and kitchen departments, fashion notes from Paris and London, home economy tips, and labor saving advice. It touts expert-tested recipes, bargains in Mercier market prices, and broad coverage of domestic and international affairs.
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