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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1879
Page
1
An ailing pastor bids farewell after forty years of ministry, tears and memories shaping a quiet, heartfelt departure as his church mourns adjoining losses and invokes a bless ing for a successor. The piece closes with a humorous herbal of folk signs and proverbs about weather, luck, and daily life.
A lyric excerpt recounts a maid who laughs at love and compares a modern maiden to Atalanta. The speaker muses on nimble grace, rivalry, and the stubborn will to win love, ending with a hint of fate and a vow never to sever a bond.
A mother kisses her baby to rest and clings close to her breast as a fair tale of love repeats across fields and ages. A young couple walks through yellow wheat while neighbors applaud their joining as the chorus proclaims love makes the world go round. An old pair hopes to die together after shared sorrow and joy.
A speaker recalls a distant April day when a lone herd-boy sang of sunshine after rain. The memory echoes through the city as the brown moor lies far away and the refrain, The sunshine follows the rain, rings again.
An Arab quarry worker four and a half miles from Gaza discovered a marble statue believed to depict a Philistine god. The recumbent figure stands 12,000 pounds, with a long beard and ringlets, arms damaged, no inscription, and the pedestal carved in one block. The Pasha of Jerusalem offers guards to protect the relic from Gaza fanatics.
A board of eminent physicians and chemists tout Hop Bitters as a cure all, claiming trials prove its wide range. A new sentimental song titled Tell me to live in your Soul Love is noted, followed by housing ad offering hot and cold water and telephone for 28 dollars monthly. A Danbury man reports forty dollars stolen then returned twenty with a remorse note.
The advertisement touts Kidney-Wort as a dry compound sold at a dollar per pint. It claims one package yields six quarts of medicine, with diuretic and cathartic effects and benefits for kidney diseases liver complaints and piles, urging readers to purchase today.
A Rome and Prague team studied malarial districts in the Campagna and report a macroscopic fungus that, when injected into dogs, caused intermittent fever and spleen changes. If confirmed, this supports germ theory and may guide future destruction or inactivation efforts. drainage and liming remain the practical remedies.
A curio of quips and snippets covers jokes about fashion, weather, lamps, and tongue twisters. It notes Boston wit, Harvard Chinese, and a kidney remedy ad while sprinkling names like Susan B. Anthony and John Smith in a brisk, old-time newspaper voice.
John Brady, a seventeen year old in the Bowery, faced Jessex Market Court after a night of intoxication. The judge pressed him on his lack of family support as Brady describes a life of hardship and idleness.
The notice promotes Wells, Richardson & Co.'s Perfected Butter Color as a solution to color deficiencies. It claims strong demand for high quality butter and notes that color affects price, with some butter selling at a discount for dull color. The passage ends with a moral line about discipline and justice.
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