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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1877
Page
1
An ode to dawn and nature depicts lark, bee, blackbird, ringdove and roses awakened by morning light. Birds sing with bright voices as night fades, dew glistens on petals, rivers flow like rainbows, and all creation rejoices in the new day.
A collection of cheeky rhymes from various papers urging affectionate actions toward a woman. The verses promote intimate, playful handling and kissing as lighthearted courtship ritual with dated tonal humor.
A child recalls his mother secretly sewing tiny clothes behind a locked bureau. He peeks and discovers outfits made for a doll, not for family, and wonders whose those miniature garments are meant to fit. The verse hints at hidden tasks and mystery surrounding the sewing.
A poem in Scribner portrays autumn scenes with fading light and wildlife. The narrator observes partridge drums, quail flight, brown nuts, and grains maturing as autumn’s soft light gilds streams and hills. A sportsman hears the plover and fisher sets a weir as leaves fall and autumn walks the land.
A lyric contrast extols the little woman whose soft hand and gentle voice wield steellike resolve. The piece argues size and height do not measure influence, as the warrior, scholar, saint, and sage move the world by the little woman’s quiet power.
The poem speaks of aging and enduring love between spouses. A speaker notes crow’s feet and gray hair yet hears his wife pledge that time cannot dull their bond. He vows to stay young in soul as winter weaves its seasonal symbolism around memories of summer and shared vows.
Dr. C G Comegys argues that religious press advertising of secret remedies for cancer and consumption is a major fraud. He condemns physicians who withhold cures, warns that licensed doctors who conceal methods destroy professional honor, and urges removal from medical and religious circles.
A party of troopers entered a widow's house, demanded refreshment, and killed the widow's son in a brutal raid. The child fled after the murder and the widow died soon after. A later recount recalls related atrocities by soldiers in Flanders and a vengeful son slaying a trooper who claimed Heaven would vindicate the deed.
A historical note surveys the invention of bells from Polonius to London curfew and church baptisms, recalls 945 Croyland Abbey bellings, and 1078 curfew origins. It mentions Berlin Exhibition skins from Prague tanner and oddities in animal hides. A Lexington Missouri wagon with one eye highlights risk. a Washington streetcar passenger exposes social critique of savings banks.
Emerson notes the borrower bears the burden of debt, implying self-incurred financial obligations and responsibility for repayment. The remark frames debt as a personal liability rather than external 책임.
Beecher has returned to the pulpit but continues lecturing about twice weekly at $300 to $599 per engagement for most of the season. Tilton dedicates all lecture time with rent arranged to miss few evenings, earning $100 to $250 per appearance.
A Scotchman told by a catechumen describes Adam as like Joe Simpson the horse-couper. The minister presses for a sharper image and learns that nobody benefited much and many lost.
A reflective assertion on wealth and poverty, noting that abundance and want hinge on personal judgment. It compares riches to glory and health, arguing their appeal depends on the holder’s own pleasure and perspective.
Mothers will grow weary and sigh over Baby’s duties but shape a child’s character through patience and health. Dr Ball’s Baby Syrup promises ease and future happiness with proper use, at 25 cents a bottle.
The piece argues love as essential to human happiness, beyond bodily needs. It contrasts physical comfort with emotional longing, noting that even health cannot soothe loneliness without a beloved person or creature. It frames love as a universal cry that shapes life and even endures beyond death.
A Vatican council ruled against canonizing Christopher Columbus. The brief note mentions the decision amid other historical church matters, while the fragment references a medicinal syrup and a child named Andy with a cough, but the main item concerns the Vatican stance on Columbus's sainthood.
A satirical set of adages criticizing thrift generosity and romance. It cautions delaying tasks to think them through while avoiding favors and debt. It mocks lending, urges frugality though with stingy ethics, and ends with a misogynistic warning about pleasing women and marriage.
A nostalgic sketch compares life a century ago with modern comforts. It notes no coal or gas, no iron stoves, no fridges or pumps, and fire lighting by brick ovens. Lighting came from pine knots, floors without rugs, water from wells, and rooms often at zero warmth. People endured cold without complaint.
The Deutsche Illustrirte Gewerbe Zeitung suggests a postal card ink using cobalt or copper salts with gum or sugar that becomes visible with gentle heat. Potassium ferrocyanide can also be used with a developer such as copper or iron sulfate to yield brown or blue writing.
A Washington dispatch notes radicals in Massachusetts worry over Governor Rice's re election chances and fear a Gaston win. It reports letters from home predicting a close vote with shifts toward Gaston and criticizes Civil service reform as fraud while Worcester delegates back the administration. Apathy and low Radical engagement are seen ahead of election day.
The piece recalls Samuel J. Randall’s rise from a Moyamensing House member to a future speaker and Pennsylvania favorite son. It contrasts a drunken past barroom temper with current reform and abstinence, claiming his earlier brutal conduct with bottles and tumblers shows a former devilish side alongside a now model deportment for aspiring editors or ministers.
The Seymour Times notes Brick Pomeroy touring in a palace car railing at labor reform while decrying demagogues as immortal. It mentions the Crescent monthly in Cincinnati and James P. b. Weems in Vincennes. Also reports bids for Peru waterworks, 2000 cattle at Terre Haute distillery, Lafayette B'nai B'rith lodge in January, Bloomington saloon status, and satirical items from New York Advertiser and Free Press.
A local reader laments the trouble of buying a coal stove then watching neighbors store wood for winter. In California a new bug appears on farms destroying pumpkin vines as a green covering spreads across fields.
The text presents a chain of aphorisms and quotes from Shakespeare Ben Jonson Otway Lavater Bacon Cicero and Peel. It discusses topics from piety and hospitality to courage temperance honesty and truth.
The notice describes Day Express and Night Express schedules with morning and afternoon departures, stops including Vernon and St Louis, and Parlor and Sleeping Cars. Tickets to St Louis Cairo Evansville and other Missouri Kansas Texas points are sold at the Firemen and Mechanics Insurance office by agent R P Gahr.
On Monday after May 14 1877 trains run as follows from Madison. Mail leaves at 1 80 pm to North Vernon arriving 9 10 am then to Columbus 10 10 am and 6 20 pm to Indianapolis 12 noon and 10 pm to St Louis 8 45 pm and 7 35 am to Chicago 8 50 pm and 7 50 am to Cleveland 0 0 0 am 7 45 am
Postmaster M. C. Garber lists arrival and closing times for Cincinnati Louisville Indianapolis and several Indiana and Kentucky towns. The schedule covers daily and tri weekly mails with varying opening hours from 6 a m to 12 m and closing times at 2 30 p m 9 p m and other intervals.
An 19th century notices page promotes Lacey and co. patent and legal services. It states no attorney fee in advance and no charges unless a patent is granted. Services include interference, rehearing, foreign patents, pensions, land claims, and bounty pay recovery with endorsements from several banks and officials.
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