31 Jul 1878
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1878
Page
1
The verse surveys a bright rural awakening with violets, honeysuckles, robins, butterflies, and ferns. It paints green valleys, blue skies, rippling rivers, and blooming lilies as summer unfolds from spring’s remnants, noting birds and insects in a lush, tranquil landscape.
A dark ode depicts humanity advancing as a unified line toward death. It names saints and sinners, rulers and peasants, and all alike under Death’s rule. The poem questions who directs this inexorable march and marks the grave as final equalizer.
A rural scene depicts a beech tree nest with three eggs under two brooding birds. A careless boy destroys the nest, leaving a sorrowful ruin as the birds abandon the site and memories linger of a past friendship and summer songs.
A fragment poem portrays three maidens entering ball room life with vanity over hair, mothers watching from the dark as men work to fund wealth. Fathers tally accounts and face a town ledger of social strain, noting men’s toil and women’s tears. The verse contrasts gendered burdens and lingering matrimonial anxieties.
Colonel Brownlow recalls a Tennessee legend about Andrew Jackson and a Maryland era Major Manley. A Virginia host tricks a guest with a loaded pistol threat during a reel dance, but the intruding visitor reveals himself as General Jackson. The tale ends with punch and laughter in the haunted room.
In Danbury a barber’s left hand finger wrapped in muslin releases a small amount of salve. The narrator describes a humorous scene as a thread tickles the nose during a twenty minute session. No diagnosis or color details are confirmed.
A Burlington Hawkeye reader recalls a Bible passage and Jim Anderson recalls East Feliciana darkness. He describes wading through total darkness that night and how clothes were left in place as dawn came. A messenger interrupts as the committee waits for Anderson, cutting the story short.
Paris reports epicures swallowing pins and needles with many cases. A Salpetriere patient yielded 1500 pins on dissection, while a 25 year old woman had 200 pins removed over nine months. Oxidized needles traced through skin and organs without inflammation.
A Boston dentist questions a woman about why her teeth are so decayed and she replies that she has had no time. He argues it would not have taken long to visit him, and she shoots back that if she had a baby every year for ten years she would think that was enough to tend to. He concedes the point.
Pressure authorities last winter barred waitresses in saloons. Some owners hid by taking the women as partners. A test case led to a conviction and fine for one waitress. The Mayor now orders all saloons employing women as waiters to close.
A collage of wits and trivia covering fortunes and fashion. Notes on women postmasters in the United States, penmanship speed, weather and travel observations, and humorous asides on signs and vendors. Includes snippets about Edison, Xerxes, and beardless rulers.
A collage of jokes and social snippets from 19th century papers includes puns about dyes and beard fronts, sly burlesques of miners and pawnbrokers, chaff about phonographs, and wry items on opium cultivation in Africa. We also glimpse light verse, city satire, and brief sketches about public figures and habits.
A Chicago official suffers mock agony in City Hall as a reporter presses for news. After a tense exchange the official reveals the item is neuralgia, drawing a dismissive reaction from the journalist.
Weather in Glasgow Kentucky runs warm and prompts blunt reflections on courtship. The writer cautions that excessive sentiment may lead to rash gestures and awkward outcomes, describing scenes of sorghum molasses and mud clothes as remnants of past encounters.
The advertisement extols Dr. Pierce patents and medicines with claims of rapid cures and universal relief. It cites Vanderbilt style investments, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, Pleasant Purgative Pellets and Favorite Prescription, plus testimonials from Aaron Allen Vernon and August Warring praising cures and a promised guarantee.
A child’s bright expression is cited to argue Baby Hood remedies should avoid opium and morphine. Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup is claimed to be free of dangerous agents and safe for use, priced at 25 cents per bottle. In Summit Pennsylvania a cave 300 feet underground forms ice year round with a spring at the bottom and an ice column from floor to roof.
An eighteenth or nineteenth century medical advertisement touts Dr Bull's Blood Purifier Mixture as a remedy to cleanse the blood and restore health. The copy emphasizes purity and restorative effects, urging readers to try the preparation.
Ex Secretary Robeson, aboard the Tallapoosa near Cape Muay, declares he will challenge the Whitthorne report and supports General Grant if he seeks the Presidency again, telling a reporter he is a friend and can rely on his backing.
A joker orders a three masted achooner of beer while a friend arrives. Afraid a theft may occur, he wraps a scrap on the mug saying I have spit in this. He leaves, returns to discover another note in a different hand stating So have I.
The New York Tribune notes Gwenersl Butler pursues a Democratic-National coalition nomination for Massachusetts Governor. It is unclear if Massachusetts Democrats or Workingmen favor his candidacy and no strong support has emerged.
In the St. Louis Times a perplexing inquiry follows the disappearance of a man linked to Howard. Readers wonder if authorities have captured him or if native forces have claimed him, leaving the matter unresolved.
A brief notice from the New York Star notes that Schuyler Colfax, then a United States Senator from Indiana, will not seek or accept a forthcoming revival of political ambitions, emphasizing the era’s fading prospects.
The Indianapolis Sun reports that John Sherman’s efforts over a six month period are assessed at 130 million dollars due to business losses.
A collage of brief, fragmentary quotes from multiple papers features a provocative phrase about shooting an American Indian and liberty, a Cleveland Plain Dealer attribution, a cartoonish exchange on foul balls, a Worcester County elder with new teeth, and a Lowell Courier note on General Grant and Emperor William.
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