Sweet violets and the secret strain in loving care
Poetic verse recalling longing and endurance through trouble. The speaker trusts in a Father’s care while recalling violets as symbols of renewal and solace amid sorrow.
12 Apr 1882
Page 1
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1882
Page
1
Poetic verse recalling longing and endurance through trouble. The speaker trusts in a Father’s care while recalling violets as symbols of renewal and solace amid sorrow.
An 18th or 19th century style reflection on English grammar noting how words like caught patched matched and hatched are used in teaching. The piece plays with historical spellings and sounds to highlight irregular forms and shifts in pronunciation.
A miscellany of political and social observations notes a gentleman as someone suited in attire and manners with references to an editor appointed as Charge d Affairs at Paraguay and Uruguay, a suicide letter citing crimes and drink, party corruption debates, a circus animal dispute, a will dispute in Brooklyn, and a Biblical comparison to political bosses.
The Louisville Courier Journal identifies Col. L. B. Eaton as a prominent Republican ex United States Marshal and Tennessee legislator linked to a July 1880 Memphis Avalanche letter. It accuses Eaton of writing under "A Southern Democrat" to attack Northern officials and to claim Yellow Fever era money sent South was war loot. The piece labels him a living embodiment of political fraud.
A Kansas City dispatch to the Globe-Democrat attributes the death of Jesse James to the breakup of his outlaw band that terrorized Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota. The piece traces the James brothers from their Kentucky and Missouri roots through guerrilla warfare, bank and train robberies, and final captures and deaths, noting Frank and Jesse James led the gang with a string of raids across Missouri and nearby states, including the Northfield and Otterville robberies and the Winston and Blue Cat incidents, and detailing marriages of the James brothers and the fates of their associates.
An 1860s style medical pitch promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as a safe tonic for invalids and infants, claiming physicians endorse it over other tonics. The item also notes Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont seeks restoration of twelve acres in San Francisco’s Point San Jose reservation, valued by locals at about 1 million dollars, and cites St Jacob's Oil as remedy for rheumatism.
A first issue of the shoe and Leather Manufacturer trade journal appears devoted to shoe makers, tanners, and curriers with mechanical and scientific content. The publication is well illustrated and presents an attractive table of contents. The report notes 21,326 flour mills in the United States.
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