30 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1879
Page
1
A crude cartoon comment targets a boy spreading molasses on his grandfather and a sailor chase tale. The line implies punishment or deprivation of earnings as a social jab.
Mrs. Sarau A. Ellnor of Oxford North Carolina touts the London Hair Color Restorer as free of impure ingredients and highly effective for restoring hair and improving eyesight. She recommends it to druggists in Oxford Raleigh and Norfolk noting wide sales. The product sells for 75 cents a bottle or four dollars for six bottles.
A Quitman Georgia judge Edward R. Harden and others trumpet Swayne's Ointment as a cure for itching piles and tetter with testimonials. The ad notes mail orders and 50 cent price for one box or 125 for three, from Dr. Swayne & Son of Philadelphia.
An advertisement promotes Dr Swayne's Tar and Sarsaparilla Pills as a universal purgative. The copy claims mild action without griping, stimulates liver, cleanses stomach and bowels, and aids headaches digestion bilious fevers and female irregularities. Mail orders offered from Philadelphia.
For over twenty years Sam G Scott of Jacob Reigel & Co. praises Dr Brayne’s Compound Syrup of Wild Cherry as the best cough remedy. Myers of a Philadelphia grocer attests relief for asthma and distressing cough. Price 25 cents for trial bottles, large bottle or six for $5. Dr Swayne and Son, Philadelphia, offers direct orders.
The article observes sidewalk beverage stalls lining Seylle streets offering cheap drinks like syrups with water, lemonade, orangeade, and orchata. It notes these stands attract crowds, lack wine or spirits, and even athletic figures frequent them, praising temperate choices and local beauty of descendants.
The text promotes Hop Bitters as the remedy to regulate the stomach first and the liver second, claiming perfect function of these organs reduces most human illnesses across climates. It asserts Hop Bitters as the sole means to achieve healthy natural action in both organs.
A Norfolk editor mocks a Louisville writer by claiming only water in his name is too much t. The Norristown Herald jokes that luck hinges on finding a horseshoe, unless it’s on a mule’s hind foot.
A collage of quips and anecdotes on common sense, manners, love, temperance, and daily foibles. Jokes reference public figures, jokes about marriage, handwriting, and social behavior, with ironic twists and pointed witticisms from a late 19th or early 20th paper.
The ad promotes J. Pierce Favorite Prescription as correcting weaknesses and diseases causing debility and emaciation. It claims to cure dyspepsia and regulate liver and bowels, praising permanent facial vitality unlike makeup. It ends urging use for infant relief with Dr Bull's Baby Syrup at 25 cents.
Xenophon and Cyropaedia hint at Persian use of gloves, while Greeks and Romans wore them. In England gloves appear by Ethelred II, with five pair duties to German merchants. Richard and John see upperclass use. gloves link to chivalry, love, and war including glove throwing as a challenge and the ritual bite for revenge. Marmion notes a lady sending a glove as love and command. Modern use centers on bets in races. a remaining custom is gloves in law, given by sheriffs to judges at assizes, also in Scotland.
The scene on the pienie brings Xenophon Socrates Alcibiades and Apollodorus into a witty clash over public decency and republican ideals. They discuss how fashionable flirtation tests free expression and order, with sly barbs on democracy and social rules.
A colored man rushes into Scott's store claiming he treed a rattlesnake in a gopher hole. Scott and others trap the snake with hooks, chloroform is used, hydrocyanic acid is forced down its throat, the snake survives briefly, then Scott shoots it dead. An odd experiment, noted as an interesting subject for investigation.
The quack rostrums are regimental to the human cistern. Put your trust in Hop Bitters. It is claimed to cure general debilitation costive habits and comic diseases. They saved Isaac from a severe extract of tripod fever. They are there plus any medicines.
A letter describes the April transfer of the Emperor and Empress to the Easten Tombs near Peking. It mocks the pageantry as poorly organized and notes the guarded foreigners policy and the plain appearance of the cortege. The Empresses appear stiff and resolute. the young emperor shows a sharp forehead and pointed chin.
A Chicago newspaper ad promotes Dr Bull's Baltimore Pills as a remedy for dyspepsia sick headache and torpid liver. The pills are advertised for sale by all druggists at 25 cents.
A concise reflection notes that numerous men assert firm principles while mainly being steadfast in personal prejudices. The remark frames firmness as a misreading of obstinacy rooted in bias rather than conviction.
The Sun reaffirms its independent stance, pledging truth and duty in 1879. It promises prompt, accurate news, covering party debates, Congress, and the 1880 presidential race, with liberal use of resources and expanded editions. Subscriptions: daily 45 cents/mo or 65 dollars/yr. Sunday 1.20/yr. wreckage Sun 14/yr. clubs get an extra copy. Publisher I. W. England, New York City.
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