02 Mar 1881
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1881
Page
1
An aged woman gazes at a twilight scene recalling a lost lover and a daughter’s child. Nostalgic verses describe tenderness, memory, and faith as a single prayer rises to God under silver stars. The imagery links past romance with present sorrow and enduring hope.
Poem contemplates facing death with steadfast faith and duty. If death comes tomorrow the speaker would continue work and love, trusting a divine guide to lead through a long century or brief day. The speaker resolves to proceed unfearing, awaiting fate with patience and devotion.
A speaker imagines an angel bringing infinite treasure but rejects fame love and long life for work and constant power. He expects the final reward lies beyond the grave, where will and strength endure together in a better land.
The fragmentary verse laments lost love and exile with reminders to remember a beloved, promising faithfulness beyond death. It references loneliness, returning memories, and a final plea as the speaker’s heart rests in grave stillness. The closing line invokes a sorrowful, unnamed voice sounding from a name-like phrase.
The article contrasts modern American wealth with ancient rulers and elites, noting vast fortunes and lavish spending. It cites figures from Vanderbilt to Nero, comparing contemporary extravagance with legendary sums spent by Ptolemy, Tacitus era rulers, and Roman figures, highlighting enduring disparities in wealth across eras.
The writer argues Brazil’s Empire will not survive Dom Pedro’s reign. Republicanism spreads, royal rule wanes, and a constitutional president may replace the monarchy as liberal ideas gain traction across the continent. The piece predicts Brazil’s empire will become a historical note.
An advice fragment promotes Kidney-Wort as a cure for biliousness and constipation amid fable-style dialogue. The piece then shifts to a Long Branch item noting France's beet-sugar output and labor figures for 1875, followed by a vignette on table manners from a Congregationalist source.
A collection of pithy sayings, quips, and anecdotes on honesty, wit, and daily life. Includes references to Dr Bull's Cough Syrup, Lydia Pinkham's remedy, Indian tea crop, jokes about circuses and clowns, and a narrator recounting a police-advised home confrontation. Multiple named figures and places appear in brief vignettes.
In a Monroe Avenue saloon yesterday a dozen men toasted Captain Green of Chicago who was jailed with a dog for two hours. Green claimed the dog was a poodle and escaped as the crowd pressed him to stay, slipping out the door while the others chased him.
A humorous tale about a master asking Sam why pork vanished from a brined barrel. Sam speculates rats ate the pork, then asks why brine did not drain, acknowledging it as a great mystery. The exchange highlights the servant’s innocent reasoning and the master’s puzzled frustration.
The 1771 inundation that swamped Lyne bridge is recalled in a Newcastle Assizes scene. Witness Adam Thompson answers his address as Paradise and says he has lived there since the flood, prompting the judge to seek clarification in a terse, humorous exchange.
A newspaper note discusses high doctor visit costs with a $3 schedule per visit and estimates annual medical attendance for bedridden patients could exceed $1,000. It mentions a bottle of Hop Bitters as a claimed saver of the year’s sickness and references a Buenos Ayres president offering free lands to fifty thousand Inch emigrants.
An advertisement touts Frazier's Root Bitters as a cure all for weakness gloom and ill health. It claims benefits for malarial districts tiredness late hours and aging with a price of 1 per bottle and lists Henry and Davis as sole proprietors in Cleveland Ohio.
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Indian Pile Ointment as a universal remedy for piles ulcers itching and related conditions. It claims long standing cases cure in one box and cites a Cleveland resident endorsement. Sold by druggists or mailed for $1 from Henry Davies Cleveland Ohio.
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