06 Feb 1878
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1878
Page
1
A lyric poem and a domestic vignette are paired with a comic scene of a drugstore style sales pitch. The poem portrays Louise Chandler MOULTON's old couple in a sunlit farmhouse, aging and united in faith. The comic inserts show a wandering encyclopedia salesman and a hardlived household negotiating need and knowledge.
A speaker pleads with a beloved to stop upbraiding as doubt, sorrow, and isolation surround them. Friends’ betrayal, night’s darkness, and the heaviness of life weigh on belief, while the world doubts and mocks their despair amid aching loneliness.
The speaker recounts sorrow and darkness as a knock comes at night and a guest enters unseen. The unseen guest sits at the feast, and the speaker realizes the Master is the guest, with life continuing in song and a distant hymn promising a new creation. The poem ends with the speaker affirming they cannot keep from singing.
A young man gives a tense Christmas exchange including short gifts and a harsh note from a tailor. He loses his sweetheart and faces legal pressure. The tailors threaten collection while the freckled boy who delivered the note vanishes, leaving a city with one fewer youth.
A recounting of Daniel Webster's courtship of Grace Fletcher, describing how he proposed with a knot tying gesture. The tale notes Grace Fletcher Webster's delicate yet steadfast character, her devotion, and the intimate letters she wrote to him during his early career.
A humorous sketch labels the egotist as a backseat critic who corrects others, quotes rules, and adds irrelevant details, never leading but always following. The piece ends with a practical ad for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup, priced at 25 cents.
A Portland Price Current piece extols reliability as the core of a good business character. It defines honesty, truthfulness, and steadiness as essential, describing the reliable man as thoughtful, prudent, discreet, moderate, sincere, trustworthy, watchful, brave, and ultimately good. It argues character is formed, not born.
A humorous sampling of antiquity and teasing quips. Hannibal and Scipio are drawn into brief, sharp phrases such as Per didi diem and Sine bacco friget Venus. Pythagoras and Aristotle receive playful attributions, with Bettina Martina tied to Pompeii and Cicero joking about puddings and pies.
A German patient with chest pain refuses to follow the physician’s cod liver oil prescription. He uses four gallons of dog liver oil after mishearing the order, claiming it cured him. The doctor departs in disbelief at the improvised remedy.
A Massachusetts town hosts Mark Twain with T. B. Aldrich set to introduce him. Twain delays, jokes that Aldrich knows him too well. A separate incident recalls a conductor consoling a mother after her child’s accident, joking about a dead head fare.
A verse meditation on marriage, praising loyal wives and wise conduct. The speaker contrasts troublesome spouses with the happiness found in virtue, arguing that long lasting contentment stems from moral character rather than mere beauty or charm.
A compendium of maxims on diligence virtue wealth pride and speech. It blends observations on marriage money manners and human foibles with cautions about deception arrogance and self control. The collection contrasts wise restraint with foolish excess across varied topics.
A fragmentary reflection delivers aphorisms about sun and repentance, aging perspectives, patience, and self trust. It contrasts personal faults with self improvement and cautions against overreliance on others.
A Detroit man jailed for crime with prison record is pardoned and returns to work at five dollars weekly in a major wholesale firm. An anonymous letter exposes his past but the proprietor commends his honesty, promotes him to floor charge, and grants a lasting position and gratitude from the man and his family.
A humorous sketch contrasts Maine rocky grounds with Eastern Shore and Virginia counties. It exaggerates hardships, noting corn planting with muskets, ducks blocked by rocks, sheep grazing via grindstones, and extreme poverty Southward with emaciated livestock and oversized wind-blown crises.
The piece argues that moods hinge on perspective and stars in the dark can guide light. It recalls an oriental traveler landing at Antioch’s historic shore where goods and medicines from Dr J C Ayer & Co Lowell arrive by camel, illustrating Western healing reaching eastern lands.
The Rev Dr William Newton resigns from the Protestant Episcopal Church citing a drift toward sensuous worship and ritualism. In a letter to Bishop Stevens he warns of a growing demand for sensational or formal services and questions church interference to correct the trend. He preached his farewell at the Church of the Nativity Philadelphia and a group of parishioners formed the Church of the Covenant under the Reformed Episcopal Church with 64 signatures.
The item lists daily and weekly mail schedules for Cincinnati Louisville Indianapolis and other towns, plus tri weekly and semi weekly mail run times. It also offers miscellaneous household advice like using lemon juice for cleaning, avoiding oil to start fires, and washing with salt solution.
The speaker attempts to recount guests at a gathering listing the two Crogans, Mike Finn, and himself. He alternates between counts, finally admitting uncertainty and settling on three or four people, unsure of the missing name.
An American girl in England misses a croquet shot and is advised on proper language. A widow counsels her daughter that at a certain age dreams of a husband may come later, prompting a playful reply about a second time.
An old advertisement touts Dr Shilohs System Vitalizer to cure numerous ailments including indigestion liver disease and languor with a sample bottle offered at 10 cents and regular size 75 cents It urges acknowledgment of cure efficacy and the store selling Suttons Plaster and Hackmetacn perfume with Henry C Firth as a seller.
The notice advertises the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad line to St Louis with day and night Express services, trains from Madison at 6 00 am and 3 15 pm, and connections at North Vernon to Cincinnati and Louisville. Through tickets to Missouri Kansas Texas and other points are on sale at the Firemen and Mechanics Insurance office with agents R P Gair in Jeffersonville and Madison.
The Sun requests continued support for its Daily Sunday and Weekly editions. It outlines prices for mail and post paid subscriptions, notes strong circulation in the US and Canada, and offers an extra copy free for clubs of ten with ten dollars.
The Cincinnati Enquirer advocates greenbacks as the remedy for ills of Monied interests and laws that favor the wealthy. It argues government credit sustains bonds for the rich while the people sustain the government, appealing for readers and agents to promote specimen copies.
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