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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1880
Page
1
A Puritan village shuns a lone outcast until a neighbor’s quiet kindness brings daily bread to the man in the woods. The giver’s unseen aid gradually changes attitudes and a woman’s death reveals enduring grace. A courtroom vignette and a roaming circus elephant on the river add colorful local color.
Poem by James G. Clark reflecting a speaker’s journey from war and pain to power and peace. The speaker envisions going home across death’s shore, hearing angelic music, and joining loved ones in a timeless, hopeful harmony. Strong images of reunion, faith, and renewal contrast winter gloom with summer bloom.
A physician promotes boiled celery as a universal remedy for rheumatism and even gout. He says celery's alkaline effect and dietary rules prevent the disease, with English 1876 deaths cited. boiled celery with milk and toast is urged as a specific and preventive measure.
In Paris about 1725 a famed hunchback named Benardot amused himself by taunting others with a whispered quip while pointing to his own deformity. His cruel running joke earned him notoriety and universal dislike among fellow hunchbacks, who avoided him whenever possible.
The article argues cold is not a single condition and outlines four potential consequences of catching cold. It stresses prevention through preserving healthy body function, exposure to pure air, clean water, and good hygiene. It closes with miscellaneous witty notes and advertisements.
A terse column advises wise living and natural remedies over expensive doctors. It urges relying on simple nature cures and hints that a future column will discuss Hap Bittere-rely on x as a remedy, warning against humbug cures and costly treatments.
A quip reframes a proverb about chimney sweeps as a humorous mockery of self praise. The line plays on goat and contest imagery to punch up a playful ribbing of rivals and bluster.
The piece notes hardship among men while corner loafers supply bread for women, highlighting urban poverty and informal aid networks in daily life.
The narrator travels by Aattin to the Sea of Galilee, noting its basin, surrounding hills, and distant Hermon. He recalls once-bustling cities along the coast such as Tarichea and Tiberias, their fates in wars with Rome, and visits Mejdel and a diminished Tiberias. The region’s ancient Jewish scholarly heritage in Tiberias is highlighted.
The piece describes the Temple of Diana built on a swamp to resist earthquakes, its labyrinthine foundations, and later alterations. It notes pillars moved to Constantinople and reuse in St Sophia, plus its link to Paul’s Acts scene. A WWI era narrator recalls Commagin and a curious exchange with Nellie about a porch visit.
Narration extols kidneys as nature’s sluice-way and urges faithful use of a Kidney-Wort remedy to cleanse the body. It jumbles health advice with political and social musings, then ends with a quip about clothing and a dubious reference to “Trulian effect pictures” on a fence.
In Blackwood's Magazine an English observer recalls a visit with a Syrian schoolmaster in a village. The youth, educated in a missionary setting, speaks rudimentary English and uses a pocket dictionary while attempting to converse. The episode ends with the visitor expressing mixed views on educated Syrians and noting others who show genuine curiosity about local ruins.
London Telegraph reports two framed notices at a St Petersburg dram shop near Mme Lassetzki s Refuge for the Homeless. One warns patrons to refrain from theft violence or loud noise, with punishment promised. the other offers five copecks for a bed to any needy man after eight with legitimization and a brief religious exhortation.
A description of Decca muslins from India praised for hand spun and woven quality. The fabric, called woven air, is delicate almost invisible yet durable, woven only at dawn and dusk under secret processes taught through lengthy initiation. It is monopolized for oriental harems and reportedly worth hundreds per yard.
Farmers can save 3,000,000 yearly by avoiding color in butter with Richardson & Co. Perfecter Bu Color. It supposedly yields a bright yellow hue, outperforms other colors at a quarter of the cost, and requires no work. Also includes a comic aside about a wife eyeing gifts and a quip about a candle.
The article depicts how Alpine peasants revered King Victor Emmanuel as a near private owner figure. It recounts moments of rough familiarities at court and on rough mountain terrain, including a guide nearly cursing him and a muleteer jokingly calling him a donkey. The king replies with patient humor about the donkey carrying the load. Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured.
The Leonard Scott Publishing Co. at 41 Barclay Street New York distributes reprints of The British Quarterly Review and three other leading quarters. They publish foreign periodicals without abridgment or alteration and cover latest advances in arts and sciences, literature and new notable publications.
From the fragment it lists payment terms for Blackwood's Magazine and multiple reviews. Prices show per annum rates for one to four reviews and combinations with Blickwood, though the OCR is garbled. The item reads as a historical subscription rate card with ascending costs.
Publishers bear a cost that reduces subscriber coat by twenty percent. A twenty percent discount is offered to clubs of four or more. Four copies of Blackwood or one Review to one address cost $12.00. four copies of the four Reviews and Blackwood cost $48, with further terms as stated.
New subscribers for 1880 may obtain last quarter numbers of nso etch periodicals at no charge. Subscribing to two, three, or four periodicals earns one of the Four Reviews for 1879. subscribing to all five earns two. Premiums require direct remittance to publishers. clubs receive no discount or premium. REPRINTED BY THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. 41 Barclay Street New York.
Trains will run on and after Sunday November 10 1879 with revised times. Accommodar mail departs Madison 6 00 am, arrives North Vernon 5 10 pm and Columbus 9 04 am. through connections link North Vernon with Cincinnati and Louisville. Mail train from here at 6 00 am will go through to Indianapolis. return departs Indianapolis at 2 55 pm. Through tickets to all points available at the depot and at WL EL Rogers Drug Store Madison. A ANDERSON General Ticket Agent Louisville Ks HORACE SCOTT General Superintendent.
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