12 Feb 1879
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1879
Page
1
A devotional poem urging a life of purpose over vanity. The speaker questions wasting hours and earthly joys, choosing instead to lift the heart toward God, seek healing through the Cross, and redeem each hour in faith toward eternity. The poem contrasts worldly dreams with spiritual resolve and eternal rest.
A poem lamenting the passing of manly glory and purpose as Twilight and Night descend. The speaker pleads for Genius of Art to lift him from despair, to inspire a final breath of song that could outshine the fading days and reach nations.
A lyric poem about winter over a moor and garden as the snow covers all. A woman at a window reflects on aging, lost blossoms, and mortality while a distant minster bell tolls. The piece contrasts seasonal cycles with life’s waning years and the grave awaiting under snow.
Poem extols hills as the home of grace and beauty where light, wind, and rain inspire reverence. Hills nurture rivers and clouds, serving as sanctuaries for weary city dwellers who ascend to pray and feel renewed by divine strength.
A Star reporter recounts a curious gathering at the St. Julien Hotel where a two-headed woman, Millie Chrissie, and her companion share one body. The duo, billed as the "Two-headed Nightingale," meet guests while dwarfs Baron Littlefinger and Count Rosebud entertain. Chrissie and Millie describe their origin, age, and life as a merged pair with dual minds and voices, singing and dancing for the assembled visitors.
A collage of humorous vignettes and quick wits from various voices. The notes lampoon professions and traits with puns about lawyers, perfumers, and divorcée, mix in railroad quips, travel tales, and a dab of local color from Detroit and Kansas towns.
A Paris writer recalls Empress Eugenie once famed as Europe’s loveliest woman. Now aged and ailing at Ems, she walks in plain dress with rheumatic decline, having shed former adornments and royal grandeur for quiet infirmity.
A Berlin paper recounts a strange incident where a watch dog swallowed a mouse and later died after the rodent gnawed its way out from inside the dog. The tale is paired with a social note on smokers and a medical ad for Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup priced at 25 cents.
A fat man argues that courtesy remains in the human heart as he tests civility by asking a stranger to unhitch his horse. He persuades a bystander to move the horse, but the tie strap remains, exposing the flaw in his logic as the plan falls apart.
A persuasive piece warns of sudden death from obesity and links fat to heart disease. It promotes Allen's Anti Fat as a harmless remedy that allegedly reduces weight by two to five pounds weekly through digestion and absorption regulation.
A tramp entered a Freeport Illinois farmhouse and sat at the table. The farmer’s wife dumped a pan of boiling water on him after he exclaimed about his ruta-baga planting spot. The incident turned tense but was briefly reported as a domestic clash.
A Yankee humorously answers a question about crossing the Alps. He says he likely passed over some rising ground, turning a simple query into a wordplay moment reflecting regional speech.
The Sun pledges independence and truth in 1879, vowing fair coverage of daily news, serious political analysis, and opposition to fraud. It outlines goals for timely, accurate intelligence, predicts elections and party dynamics, and lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions.
Advertisement describes pale leaden complexion, disturbed digestion, foul breath, swollen belly, and nervous symptoms attributed to worms. Claims Vermifuge cures all cases without mercury and notes genuine bottle bears C McLane and Fremant Bros signatures on the wrapper.
Advertisement warns that only McLane's Liver Pills are genuine with red wax seals and signatures of C. McLane and Firminxne Bros. The pills are said to be prepared by Fleming Bros. of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, noting many imitations with altered spellings.
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