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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1891
Page
6
The passage describes women unable to engage in activities due to feeble health and female weaknesses. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a universal tonic and appetizing cordial prescribed for worn-out teachers, milliners, dressmakers, shop-girls, housekeepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women generally with a guarantee of satisfaction or money back.
An advertisement promoting Mrs. Gervaise Graham's cucumber and elder flower cream claims it smooths and whitens skin, protects from sun and wind, prevents freckles and blackheads, and reduces wrinkles. It lists pricing, availability through her San Francisco establishment, mail options, and agent opportunities.
The Herald recounts Ohio political chatter after a recent election. It contrasts James E. Campbell’s courteous telegram to McKinley with a harsh dispatch from Hahn, criticizing Republican leadership and predicting electoral consequences for 1892.
In a dramatic council scene, Pfeiffer is removed as Street Commissioner with Stanley poised to replace him pending bond approval. The episode, amid broader political posturing, hints at factional tensions and warns officials about alliances and gifts from Greeks bearing gifts. Open letter from Lt Foote denounces pensions, urging liberty and honor for veterans while opposing widespread payouts. A 40 year physician endorses Hall's Catarrh Cure, praising its efficacy.
The DePauw University Quartette Co performed at Trinity to a large Madison crowd. Maxwell impressed with superb tenor and clear enunciation while humorous pieces and Hough’s sermon-like encore drew hearty laughter and applause. Epworth League funded the concert, supporting these students paying their way through college.
A fraudster posing as a subscription solicitor travels through nearby towns collecting payments for a leading publication. The publisher brands him a first class fraud. The agent, named Douglas J. Meyrick, is described as over forty, 5'4", 115 pounds, sandy, gray eyes, pointed features, light brown mustache, very bald, wearing a black derby and light brown overcoat. Shun him.
The grand jury was dismissed for the term by Judge Friedley after presenting their report. They found the Children's Home, the jail, and the county infirmary kept clean and neat, and noted forty nine inmates at the poor farm. No other business of importance was transacted.
Reports note Mrs. Jefferson Davis plans interment of her husband in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond Virginia. The item sets a somber tone amid a string of political and criminal news items from across the nation. It touches on Chilean intrigue, New York Legislature, Iowa election outcomes, and Tennessee convicts.
A poem depicts a soldier on guard in a camp hush dreaming of sleep. He prays to Jesus to keep his soul as memories of a mother near infancy hover as night deepens. The verse blends warfare danger with personal loss and spiritual solace.
Dear mothers of first babies learn the simple art of carrying a infant properly on a cable car. A second item reports the death of Matilda Moyes on Charters Street, found dead after a relative's news caused a heart seizure.
A dreamlike meditation on urban pollution and social peril. The speaker contrasts a coldly gleaming machine with a regal yet dangerous woman who wanders through dust and dirt, leaving a serpent's trail behind. Century.
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