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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1879
Page
1
The Spectator narrates a nocturnal river landscape with trees and hills cloaked in darkness. Night birds call softly as a city sleeps, while a river glistens under fading light and morning hues approach beyond the mountain line.
A collage of remarks and anecdotes on railroads, manners, and society. A busy man helps a traveler with rail guides at length while a stranger learns a lesson in courtesy from a courteous agent. The piece includes wry observations on luck, fashion, and daily life across regions.
The poem speaks of a bright world before thee and summer light as a blessing. It warns that dawn may bring loss and fading skies yet promises a wild flower wreath of feeling beyond mere art, the sunbeam of the heart enduring beyond beauty’s transient glow.
A dream visitation by a deceased friend returns comfort about enduring friendship. The vision, with gentle gestures, asserts that true friendship survives death and time, fading only with daybreak as morning light fully arrives.
A verse contrasts a rich man with a velvet church pew and ample meals with a poor man who prays for daily bread. The rich man seeks more while the poor man prays for God’s will to be done. The poem notes the rich man’s many prayers versus the poor man’s single heartfelt plea.
Poetic fragment describes a pygmy dance with dancers in red light and bat wings. Figures flash plumes, swords, and fans as the reef scene unites with tender glances and whispered kisses. Scribner February publication attributed to Charles De Kay.
A fragment recalls a broken harp string that never answers again, reflecting a heart wounded by a woman. The speaker, in youth, lost his best string to heartbreak, yet life remains calm aside from that silence. Also glimpsed are fragmented lines about a baby and a returning man amid revelry.
A meditation on everyday courtesy within families and visiting guests. The piece argues that partners and parents should model politeness, apologizing and showing gratitude, to foster respectful, well mannered children and a harmonious home. It contrasts cold, ungracious behavior with warm, considerate speech.
The passage notes European customs of grave leases in which renewals may fail and families vanish, leading to exhumations. Paris burial grounds are said to have degraded grounds after repeated use, causing miasma for grave diggers and calls for ventilation, with a closing remark on grinding treadle symbolism.
The article recalls Christ Church completed in 1773 with George Washington as vestryman and owner of Pew No. 5 bought for 36 10. Washington’s Bible, Custis’s gift, and pew alterations over the years are noted along with Union occupation and visitors. It ends with a local death anecdote and an advertisement for Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup.
A list of social dos and don'ts covers polite dining habits and proper conduct. It warns against vulgar jewelry, public mail cutting, chasing celebrities, and slovenly eating. It advises serving vegetables separately, eating cheese properly, and avoiding crooking dress or rude table behavior.
An elderly, poorly dressed man uses two sand filled oyster cans as props to beg for charity, telling a woman to keep them until the owner calls. Sometimes he earns a quarter, sometimes only a meal, while bystanders react with sympathy or scorn as the tale travels from the Detroit Free Press.
A Nellgherry Excelsior correspondent describes a tiger cub that steals and smokes its master's cigar stubs nightly. The tale recalls Mehemet Ali’s tame animal that puffed a hookah after dinner. Then an advertisement urges Dr Bull's Baby Syrup to relieve a suffering infant for 25 cents.
A local notice extols a durable life insurance agency described as a stock company under joint title. Policies are marketed with references to Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pheasant Purgative Pellets as remedies, available through principal druggists acting as agents.
The Sun promises daily editions throughout the year 1879 with the same aim as before. It will provide readable news and strive to tell the truth despite imperfect text.
The text lists right side pain under the ribs and sometimes left side pain, shoulder blade radiation, loss of appetite, general bowel disturbance, headaches with backache, memory loss, dry cough, weariness, cold or burning feet, prickly skin, low spirits, and fear of remedies. It notes liver derangement found at autopsy despite variable symptoms.
The notice warns buyers that only genuine Dr C McLane liver pints bear red wax seals and the signatures C McLane and Fleming Bros on wrappers. It cautions that many imitations misspellings exist and urges purchase from Fleming Bros of Pittsburgh Pa.
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