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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1880
Page
1
A Detroit Free Press narrative describes a tenant woman witnessing a deadly fire scene from a window. A child clings to life as flames engulf a building while townsfolk watch in terror. The story ends with the survivor returning home to marry, reflecting on love and loss.
Poem pondering the dead watching the living from beyond the grave. It imagines grieving parents spouses and children sensing life’s losses and the ache of memory as they witness earthly strife and the silence of the tomb makes death a restful state.
The narrator recollects sweet scenes by a stream with ox-eyed daisies and poppies and recalls childhood memories. The poem laments worldly change yet affirms nature’s gentleness and a returning home to earn worth beside the native stream. This piece attributes Sarah Doudney from Sunday Magazine.
A dressed yet penniless scammer feigned wealth to dine and secure a room, then stole a pair of pants with a pocketbook. He fled town after leaving the hotel staff with $20, while $19 remained unaccounted for and the thief kept ahead of pursuit.
The speaker contrasts Napoleon Bonaparte’s storied career with a desolate vision of a French peasant’s simple life. He recalls Napoleon’s conquests from Italy to Waterloo and St Helena, then declares a preference for a humble hut, family, and quiet earth over imperial power and bloodshed.
A reader describes long endured neuralgia and general nervous weakness improving after three months on a new remedy. The letter notes prior medicines failed and claims renewed vigor and youth as a result. Providence is mentioned as a place connected to the cure.
James Pine of Marbletown, aged around sixty, has hunted forty years and killed fourteen red foxes, a crossfox and a gray fox in Ulster County. He recalls a tale of skinning a fox to remove the pelt, only to have the animal run off. later he mistook a pale animal for a white fox, discovering the previous fox’s flesh had altered to a leather-like state after exposure. Pine owns a Marbletown farm and supports his powder by selling skins.
A jumble of aphorisms, proverbs, and stray notes fills the page, pairing authors and jokes with stray names. The fragmentary items span topics from marriage and temperance to power and pride, reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century miscellany of maxims.
A moral essay argues misfortune of poverty and the deceit of showing wealth. It favors strict economy and living within means to remove poverty, praising self denial and frugality as honorable, practical paths to wealth and personal integrity.
Professor Stephenson of the Hayden surveying party in New Mexico challenges reports in a Chicago paper by deeming the Aztecs a myth. He cites Clif-dwellers as the true source of romance tied to the Aztec name while noting excavations include extinct animals skeletons. He also describes Egyptian style artifacts and pottery clues suggesting Old World links and Indigenous manufacture in Mexico.
An aging resident on Ratziot Avenue Yeatening recounts a long, chaotic tale of telephone pranks from a saloon and Springwells, where a "Dutchman" on the line orders him to speak louder and to move to Texas. He describes bursts of mistaken calls, jeers, and threats as he seeks relief and normalcy.
The 1650 Connecticut order bans tobacco for anyone under 21 or without physician certified license. It forbids public smoking on streets or open places and imposes six pence penalties per offense, with witnesses' testimony required for conviction. Towns must report transgressions to respective courts.
A ten year old recalls a confrontation where a pupil named Jack Cain threatened him in class. The teacher intervened, pulling Jack from the wall and disciplining him. The boy describes feeling protected and notes Jack’s loss of nerve afterwards.
Four Detroit men discuss hiding a drunken companion. One man phones his wife, describing a plan to move the inebriate home by wagon and dump him on the sofa, while another suggests cold water and a fire yell to wake him. The plan exposes concern for scandal and police trouble.
In Columbus a man named Wim Pinpps displayed a stone he calls a petrified mud-stone or honeycomb that allegedly cured dogs and people bitten by rabid animals. Reports describe its appearances and alleged effects on several bite victims including John Hacker and Mrs Keithanger, with mixed outcomes and no clear medical backing.
Advertisement lists several sugar and molasses products including choice sorghum ordinary New Orleans molasses good New Orleans molasses choice New Orleans molasses sugar drip syrup brown New Orleans sugar choice New Orleans sugar standard white sugar priced at 30 cents per gallon.
A retired merchant recalls how settling down built a fortune and warns of misfortune if it hadn’t. The passage promotes Ayer's Cherry Pectoral to prevent colds coughs and bronchial issues before consumption. It also claims a “bivot Jong, Darrow paper” will lighten a heavy lamp.
The Weekly Herald features telegraphic dispatches from all parts of the Union and world, offering full reports from Washington and speeches by eminent politicians. It highlights Wellness News and a comprehensive Farm Department.
A quirky puzzle describes placing three coins on A lines and three on B lines, then moving coins forward without retreat to swap dimes and cents. It adds a note about election supervisors and district water issues.
An advertisement urges readers to use Kidney-Wort claiming it cures habitual bowels, torpid liver, and kidney issues. It promises readers will feel well again if taken faithfully and forget their organ problems.
After Sunday March 14 1879 trains run north and south from Indianapolis with through connections. Northbound service includes Accommodat n Mail leaving Madison at 3:00 PM arriving North Vernon 5:20 PM and Columbus 6:00 PM to Indianapolis 10:50 PM and St Louis 7:25 PM. Southbound leaves Indianapolis 4:10 AM and 2:50 PM via Columbus and North Vernon to reach St Louis. Through tickets to Kansas and Texas offered at lowest rates.
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