13 Nov 1878
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1878
Page
1
A mixed load of science health notes on planetary perihelia predicting pestilence, plus society items on fashion trends, crinoline, bonnets, and women’s manners. The piece cites Dr Knapp, Jupiter and other planets, and forecasts for 1880 to 1885, alongside fashion blurbs and light anecdotes.
A collage of quips and anecdotes on peacocks, mules, cider, a massive toadstool, donkey braying, and jokes about politics, readers in London and New England, plus a cat lore dialogue. Notable bits include a Big Rapids shingle mill blast, a Virginia creeper bottle, and humorous vignettes from justice courts.
A poem about bereavement and memory. The speaker reflects on a loved one who has died leaving partial shares of flowers, summer, and light. The verses describe tears, longing, and the enduring impact of the deceased on the speaker’s life.
A speaker recalls a night in Newport last July describing ballroom romance on a terrace under starlit skies. Both men ponder confessing love and wonder about marriage plans while exchanging playful banter and shared memory of courting. The piece ends with a playful twist as both confess mutual rejection.
A poem recalls a night vision where a deceased friend stands at the bed, offering comfort that true friendship survives death. The speaker reflects on boyhood summers and timeless bonds beyond mortality, sensing a rapture and lingering fear as dawn breaks.
The East side radicals, buoyed by recent reverses in Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, express gleeful relief. Hays Sherman McCrary and Schurz are cited as sharing the joy while noting grim humor in the mix. Democrats claim the victory for now as eight Congressmen lost in three states, including Iowa.
A Brazilian count dining at a fashionable hotel caused a scene when the maître d'hôtel refused a second cutlet with a single fish-ball. He left, bought the hotel, returned, kicked the manager down the steps, then demanded and was served another cutlet.
A house agent reassures a lady that the stairs are not steep, insisting they are the easiest staircase she has ever seen and that climbing them feels almost effortless. The conversation emphasizes the stairs’ simplicity and accessibility.
A New Jersey physician, distracted by town lots he partly paid for, wrote a quick prescription. When asked how to take the pills the doctor quipped that payment should be one third now and the balance in six and twelve months with interest.
The Yonkers Gazette mocks a girl with a diamond ring while the Courier-Journal retorts about the "seven years' itch" afflicting the nose of the girl who wears two rings.
A newspaper item notes a striking headline titled The Afghan Affair but reports the following dispatch has no reference to pat. The piece underscores a misprint or disconnected briefing affecting the story’s continuity.
A widow visits a barber on C street to dye her dead husband’s hair for his funeral. She asks the barber to fix him up as a beauty, recalling his final wish to be prepared prettily. The barber dyes the corpse in high style, and she notes he was the lowliest corpse ever buried on the Comstock.
In a village scene an old man named Pompey wears a large brass watch-key on a shoe-string chain. A young Black observer questions the display and Pompey jokes about appearances. He notes the difference between owning a horse and carrying a sign. The piece ends with a witty reflection on mistaken identity in romance.
A fragment notes a peanut seller amid turning forest leaves and chestnut worms, with images of a fiery bed and cities where books will soon be carried by every city maiden as something called as axe appears.
A sharp comic vignette follows a woman in a butcher shop as she waivers through choices from mutton to ham to pork sausage and veal before finally settling on beef steak. The punch line pivots on a cynical man who mourns a rich friend’s burial and a marble statue of a heroic woman.
It is left for futurity to produce two men who have sufficient Christian grace to occupy different offices on the second floor of a building, and then not wait for each other to sweep the stairs.
A light quotation hints at anticipation for a notable arrival or leadership figure. The line suggests public interest in who will emerge as a decisive leader, replacing cycles of change with a strong individual.
A playful mix of dog anecdotes and a St Louis boy story from Chicago Primer. It blends humorous dog quips about guarding homes and finding paths with a tale of Tom saving drowning boys, plus a peasant pun about coins and a flash of a pastor’s gratitude.
The piece recounts a college scandal involving Ben Butler, who feigns drunken bravado to break an engagement with a Waterville belle. His ruse backfires as the girl’s temperance family hits back, he is fined, freed by her note, and the pair later diverges with the woman marrying elsewhere. The column ends with a joke about almanac designs and a parent’s quip.
The Sun pledges independence and truth in 1879, promising prompt, full, accurate news for daily, Sunday, and weekly editions. It aims to strengthen readers with broad coverage of national events, politics, and Congressional debates, anticipating the 1880 presidential election and reforms. Subscription rates are listed for daily, Sunday, and weekly formats.
An advertisement proclaims Dr C Mclane as a cure for hepatitis liver complaints dyspepsia and sick headache. The claim positions him as a trusted medical figure offering a remedy to a broad range of digestive and liver ailments. The copy targets chronic conditions with promises of swift relief.
The passage lists right side liver pain under ribs and into the shoulder blade, sometimes misdiagnosed as rheumatism, with loss of appetite, bowel disturbance, head pain, memory loss, dry cough, fatigue, cold feet, skin prickling, low spirits, and fear of remedies. It notes variable symptom presence and postmortem evidence of extensive liver derangement.
An old advertisement promotes Dr C McLain's Liver Pitts for ague and fever with quinine. The remedy is said to prevent fever, serve as a purgative, and aid bilious derangements. Readers are urged to give them a fair trial and consider them preparatory to or after quinine use.
The advertisement warns buyers that genuine Dr C McLane's Liver Pills are sealed with a red wax seal and bear the signatures C McLane and Fleming Bros on the wrappers. It cautions that imitations named McLane exist with different spellings, urging insistence on the Fleming Bros Pittsburgh produced product.
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