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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1880
Page
1
A regal man seeks meaning beyond power and wealth. He desires the truest love and a nobler life. Velvet scepter and royal wealth fail to satisfy as pale lips of clay rest content, love and sway preferred over crowned glory. The poem reflects on mortality and the limits of royalty.
A verse dialogue contrasts a playful maiden and a weary matron, weighing love by lightness and heft. The girl treats love as weightless as a wisp, while the elder recalls a time when love felt light then became a burden. The poem explores love as both light and heavy within one heart.
A lyrical verse extols inner beauty through acts of kindness, honesty, labor, and faith. It emphasizes humble service, steadfast patience, and quiet devotion as the measure of a beautiful life across daily duties and twilight reflections.
Fragmentary verse courtroom fragment shows a woman addressing a social judgment theme. The lines invoke shaming and lifting up offender figures, with references to crime and public disgrace in a dramatic, archaic register.
A fragmentary verse laments lost chances and calls for singing about girls not wed. The speaker recalls varied hair and a timeless form as part of a mournful meditation on youth and prime years.
A playful scene in a newspaper office shows a young woman presenting verses to an exchange editor who riffs on lines and rhymes. Their humorous banter exposes pretensions of verse to fit a print era, ending with the editor's self mockery and the maiden's silent exit.
A lady compliments a friend's clear skin and the friend attributes the improvement to Hop Bitters. The exchange suggests the product makes bloating disappear and promotes blooming health as claimed by the speaker. The note appears in the Caleo Bulletin.
A town horse ignored by the Fire Department and later examined by a parade of professionals on Griswold Street. Each observer offers a different supposed ailment from wind puff to sweeney, while the owner leads the animal away, leaving the crowd to debate its condition.
A Wall Street vignette depicts a failed missionary con artist asking for ten cents, a blunt dealer declines, and a moralized ending highlighting honesty. The piece weaves in ad copy for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup and assorted epigrams on society, money, and virtue.
The item cites L B Smith of Faribault Minnesota praising an Only Lung Pad with plans for an extra strength supply. It also notes W B Tappan of Toledo Ohio recommending an Excelsior Kidney Pad for fifteen years of side pain and requesting another pad.
Casper Weitzel a policeman from Lancaster Pennsylvania reports relief from kidney trouble after using Pad 25 days saying it is a little better than in 15 years and praises its effect.
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