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Newspaper

Madison Weekly Herald

Location

Madison, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 01, 1882

Page

4

Church Schedule in Browlway Area Featured

Directory lists numerous denominations with addresses and service times including Morning and Evening services. Notable churches include First and Second Pres byterian and Christ Church with pastors named and weekly prayer meetings noted.

First Presbyterian Churci Browlway Second and High Streets W. R. Brown Wednessey Delock Second Presbyterian Church Thirt and West Kt. Wilson D. D Becond Baptist Church Fifth Street Mulberry Street Miles Bazet Ebenezer Methodist FE Poplar Lane Main Cross Third Streets T. S. Johnson

Indorsements Highlight St Jacobs Oil Efficacy

Letters from prominent locals recount St Jacobs Oil aiding workers from Conn River Railroad Boston & Albany Railroad and Ray & Taylor Manufacturing Co. relatives cite relief from rheumatism and neuralgia with repeated claims of immediate benefit. A Bellows Horace anecdote ends with a witty exchange about philanthropists and generals.

WW. H. Stearns Conn. River Boylston Street St. Jacobs Oil Springfield Mass.) Union

Brown's Iron Bitters Cures Hittie Girl Skin Ailments

A Columbus man reports his daughter suffered pimples and skin sores due to impure blood. After using Brown's Iron Bitters, he claims complete cure and removal of blood impurities.

Starvation on the Wabash and urged charity

The report details severe hunger in the Wabash area with hundreds of families destitute. Corn and feed are scarce and expensive, hay and oats are unaffordable, and some farmers sell livestock to survive. Charitable lending of corn or fodder is urged, with hope crops may still come. An editorials note advertises Dr Bull's Cough Syrup. It also lists notably aged Irish peers and churchmen as the oldest people.

Lincennes Sun Saal

Frank Lestie's Popular Monthly For March

A March issue of Frank Lesha's Popular Monthly claims to be the world’s cheapest periodical. It features Clarke on The Jeannette and her Crew with fifteen illustrations, plus pieces on Strasbourg Growth of the Ceramic Art Icelandic life and Burns, nine to sixteen illustrations each. Also fiction, poems, and essays across 128 pages. single issue 25 cents, annual $3 postpaid. Publisher: 3, 55, & 57 Park Place, New York. Rabies from Spitz dog bites cited with fatal outcomes in Pennsylvania and France.

Jeannette Joseph I. C. Clarke Strasburg Iceland Polar Circle Robert Burns Shairp Frank Lesha Park Place New York

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Advertisement

An advertisement promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims immediate relief, bowel regulation, rest for mothers, and safety for all cases. The product is described as pleasant tasting and prescribed by a renowned female physician, priced at 25 cents per bottle.

United States

No Souls in Corporations except Pennsylvania Railway

A Senate inquiry receives a letter from the Pennsylvania railway company president denying any claim for compensation for courtesies extended to the late president and family while expressing pleasure in aiding President Gasfield’s health. The St Louis Post Dispatch touts St Jacobs Oil as superior for numerous ailments.

Pennsylvania Railway Company Senate Committee On Appropriations Gasfield

Petticoats Drift From Ulster In Modern States

A San Francisco Examiner quote notes changes in attire and gender roles, listing counts of professional women in Kansas including seven school superintendents and twenty-six physicians. It contrasts attitudes to polygamy and politics, remarking on a witty phrasing about Utah and Congress.

Kansas Utah Congress San Francisco Examiner

Holiday cough syrup urged as premier gift

The coming holidays will be more generally observed than any for many years and readers are reminded that a bottle of Dr Bull's Cough Syrup will prove a most acceptable holiday present.

Dr. Bull

Counterfeit 1877 Philadelphia Half Dollar Detected

A dangerous counterfeit claiming Philadelphia Mint 1877 is in circulation. The ring is nearly perfect and tougher to tell by bite test. Edge milling is flawed and smoothed, but careful edge inspection reveals the coin’s true counterfeit character.

Philadelphia

Mystery Gun Reunites Burk and Shelby County tale

In 1868 Johan Burk vanished after leaving Columbus with a silver mounted rifle. The weapon later surfaced with John Jackson of Shelby County, prompting a search to trace the gun's history back to 1858. Neighbors seek clues to Burk's disappearance, hoping to uncover the missing years and the event behind the mystery.

Columbus Clifford Johan Burk Shelby County Brown County Burke John Jackson Jackson

Did You Know It Brown's Iron Bitters Strengthens Digestion

An advertising notice extols Brown's Iron Bitters as a true tonic that strengthens the digestive organs and helps prevent costiveness diarrhea and bowel disorders when used timely. The claim emphasizes tonic quality and overall health benefits.

Steep Tariff Cost of Bessemer Rails in 1880

A 1880 analysis shows domestic steel rail production at 954,460 tons with 108,230 tons imported, total consumption 1,112,690 tons. The $67.50 average U S price and £6–£7 British rails imply a tariff tax of $31,155,320 on U S purchases. The author compares this to federal expenses and historical outlays for context.

Great Britain Bessemer United States Buchanan David A. Wells Iowa

Deacon Teaches Beggar Sabbath Lesson

At a Woburn conference meeting Farmer Allen of Wakefield recounted a Sunday morning scene a deacon giving bread to a beggar while lecturing about sin. When the deacon began to pray the beggar challenged him asking if Our Father is both their father. The exchange ends with a demand for a thicker slice.

Woburn Allen Wakefield

Tramp Reporter Describes Itinerant Life and Duties

A writer in the Providence Journal portrays itinerant reporters as travelers who gather and disseminate information across the country. They rely on public hospitality, avoid lingering, do not involve themselves in politics, and abstain from labor agitation in any form.

Providence Journal

The Chief End of Government Debate

The piece argues that civil government aims to protect unalienable rights of life liberty and pursuit of happiness against a spoils system. It claims the Republican party pursues patronage as its main objective and warns this corrupts political life and endangers personal liberty security and property.

Republican Party

President's message praised by couple in Oil City Derrick

Erastus asks about the President's message while admiring the companion who says she finished it recently. He calls it splendid and literary, then muses on the future of their family and marriage amid the ongoing fuss. The scene reflects personal ambitions linked to a banked future.

Erastus Oil City

The Dioscope promises to rival the telephone

A Boston Globe report describes the dioscope as an invention with a small objective lens at the theater stage connected by wire to a white glass plate in a home drawing room. In total darkness the plate shows a faithful color image of the performance, allowing a viewer at home to watch the play via a connected telephone.

Costly labor behind a newspaper and other notices

The article discusses the high labor cost of producing a newspaper as a largely human effort despite its mechanical aspects. It notes the value of chromo lithographic seed packets from D Landreth & Sons and praise for their seeds. It also reports Willy Wallach's death from pneumonia after the Potter building fire and quotes Vander on Maud S. Paxton accepting a Presbyterian post in New York at a $10,000 salary with moving expenses and vacation.

D. Landreth & Sons Philadelphia Willy Wallach New York Potter Building John R. Paxton Washington West Presbyterian Church New York City

Simple Vegetable Remedy Promised for Lung Ailments

An retired physician claims to have received a vegetable formula from an East India Missionary that cures Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and general debility. He states it has been tested in thousands of cases and offers full preparation instructions by mail free of charge with a stamped self addressed envelope.

East India

Also Mentioned on This Page

the Herald Madison Indiana Church Directory Vine Jim C. Q. Wright Vine Street Third C. E. W. Dobbs United Presbyterian Churche Third and Vine Streets J. A. Kennedy Trinity Church Methodist Episcopal Broadway L. G. Adkinson Christ Citurcihi Fourth Streets Edward Bradley German Methodist Church Third Street Main Mulberry Streets M. George Lutiters N Church—Corner East Main Cross Streets August Muller Universalist Church J. B. Grandy Ezer United Brethren Fulton Twall Rev Barton ST. Mary’s Second Street Walnut Streets Father Sapee ST. Michael's Cifforcis Church Street John Mougin Sisters’ Chapel African Methodist Church Walnut Rev. Wilson Dr. Bellows Lalleck Sanitary Commission Halleck United Kingdom Earl of Mountcashel Marquis of Donegal Baron Fitzgerald Kelmore Frank Lestie Epitz Canaan France Pennsylvania Railroad St. Lews (Mo Post-Dispatch St. Jacobs Applied Theology Albany Argus Ment American Register Boston Globe Hartford Courant Captain Stone Vanderbuilt Maud S Ayer Sabe Williams & Coh Pittaburgh Aner Toriver & Glassware Sadie Fe ARE H. BALLETT &_ CO Portland Maine National Bureau OF Invention Patent Office Halstead & CO Washington, D.C Congressional Reporter W. TK. Walls Pbahhd Hk A Main Cross Street North Side Central Avenue Dewey Building Madison, Ind True & CO Augusta, Maire Enes Baglan Main Street Piso Best West Street Madison, MD Henry C. Firth East Main Cross St Craig & Bro Gavitt’s Henry Firth, Druggist Western Hotel Henny Niesse West and Ohio Streets Belfont Nails Alling & Lodge’s William Todd Josh. H. Schofield Merchant Tailorine Establishment Craig & Brother Anderson County IIN D C- Pfeleer Cincinnati Court House M. E. Bell N. Calvert St Baltimore, Md Geo. Diederich West Main Cross St Stinson & CO Orip Pere DR. M. Ferry & CO Detroit Mich Aving Bae Dehler Ind John Adams Wm, Resor the Pioneer Grocery Corefees Harris & Maddux
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