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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1880
Page
1
A Detroit Free Press fragment opens with a mournful poem about a young life cut short and rest in heaven. It shifts to a gritty street scene where a traveling tramp asks to join a household to avoid local loiterers, gains permission, and surprisingly thanks his host for a chance at reform.
By Carlotta Perry the speaker recalls giving hope love and faith to the sea which promised return but delivered only pain Pale ghosts haunt the land and the wraith of a lost love lingers at her feet in aching memory.
A towering mill houses a grinding power that feeds the farmer and town. The miller controls the grain, the markets, and the land as bells toll on Sundays.
A lyric meditation on barren summer days without flowers or fruit. The speaker endures heat and longing while awaiting a revelatory moment that explains the heart's bleeding and the absence of blooms, imagining celestial seed sown by an angel hand.
A nostalgic fragment recalls a single face at a window and a brief greeting. The speaker cherishes the gaze and smile, insisting that such a simple meeting holds irreplaceable meaning beyond ordinary life. The poem centers on a beloved woman and the enduring memory of that moment.
A butterfly rests on an infant’s grave beside a growing lily. The insect speaks of its metamorphosis from worm to winged being and contrasts the mourning child with its own ascendant fate, asking whether the beloved could be called back.
A Paris periodical discusses hand care and the belief in hand whiteness as essential to beauty. It outlines a home recipe using almonds cherries roots and alcohol to wash and powder the hands, claiming it will whiten skin soften texture and reduce wrinkles.
An Evening Express quote extols hop bitters as a healing medicine with high curative properties and hops strength, claiming physicians prescribe them and Rochester shops sell them. The fragment also includes a poetical line urging courage and a barely coherent note about a hired girl waking early.
Judge Pershing reverses a magistrate in a Bashore swearing case under the 1794 act fining 40 to 67 cents per oath with imprisonment for nonpayment. The column adds a pithy warning about the law’s apparent burial and possible revival, plus a parable about Uncle Phil and a note on mercy and money.
Sam and Pamble plan to study what to do as they sit beneath a great pecan tree. Pumble tells a new tale about a man who walks along a road then turns back to where he started, in a simple club story of misdirection and return.
A Berry town damsel testifies to the clerk she wants one dollar in stamps. The clerk jokes about denomination as the teen nervously explains she favors a church label for the stamp buyer, saying he is for a Universal Orthodox.
Advertises Kidney-Wort as a direct remedy for kidney trouble and secretions while also regulating the bowels. Encourages immediate purchase to cure oneself before illness worsens.
Minneapolis mills produce about 16 000 barrels of flour daily as engineers at leading mills report demand outpacing supply. Orders come from England Scotland and Ireland shipping as mills struggle to fill all inquiries.
A grave mentor on a train urges the traveler to vote for President of the United States, listing candidates Grant Blaine Sherman Washburne Garfield or Edmunds and insisting the voter may cast only once. The narrator questions the meaning of president and laments the journey of years.
A vagrant ass at the Sunset Railway depot in San Antonio is startled by a locomotive. the animal resists fear and emits a booming cry that unsettles railroad workers. A nearby observer doubts the animal’s alertness while a porch elder muses on knowledge in the township. Also noted are ads for Malt Bitters and a chalk plaster for facial redness.
An essayist notes that imagination remains fresh in children across classes, letting them escape urban gloom through make believe. They lack natural playgrounds, their games mimic soldiers and sailors on the pavement, their toys often scraps from the streets yet imagination keeps nature’s gift alive.
A Colorado tale recalls a newly wealthy Denver man who treats watches as status symbols. After staggering into the Grand Central Hotel office he twice orders timepieces, first receiving one and then demanding another as his liquor fueled display.
LE' Evenement recounts a humorous episode in which the Prince of Wales, in a Turkish bath, mistakes a dark man in bath attire for a negro attendant. The man, showing dignity, draws himself up with a towel like a toga and leaves, provoking the prince’s Castilian pride.
Hon. J Stanton Gould notes clover as food among plains Indians for generations. Diggers of California eat it raw or cook it by heating between stones, often with onions or grasshoppers for a luxury. Apaches mix clover with pigweed and dandelions for a stew-like dish with heated stones.
A partially intoxicated sailor faced Justice Wandell in Yorkville court. The judge questioned his drinking, and the sailor pressed that liquor is nasty. The exchange ends with the judge proclaiming there is "fun ahead" and the sailor is discharged.
The article recalls Duke as a fallen but cherished figure in battles shared with a generous general. It notes Duke’s feebleness in later life yet preserves his memory, with the General repeatedly declaring Duke shall have a part as long as there is anything to go upon this farm.
A Louisville letter in the Cincinnati Enquirer recalls Judge John Rice once urging secession with a pop gun boast and later admitting Yankees could have been whipped with pop guns. The note also cites Indianapolis hardwood market troubles and various adage snippets from the era.
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