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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1879
Page
1
A poem from Chambers Journal explores a woman's life as a daily knitting of joys and pains. It contrasts bright sunshine and hopeful futures with twilight weariness and inner longing. The verses trace feminine desire, duty, and resilience through seasons of emotion and memory.
A lyric reminiscence of memory and longing as the speaker recounts how the lost beloved returns in dreams and visions. The poem traces nighttime silence, moonlit memories, and vivid impressions of the beloved through light, shadows, and nature, renewing youth and joy.
The poem describes a small spring bursting from a hill and rains reviving parched plains. Each tiny drop does its part to fulfill the Maker's design, offering a moral: people should strive to fulfill God’s will and serve Him. The piece ends with devotion to the Creator.
Poem lyric urges tender love spoken softly as weather shifts. The speaker asks for silent, knowing affection conveyed by eyes and sighs, preferring deep feelings over spoken words and stressing enduring emotional bond.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution recounts Old Si lecturing a ladder-bearing Black man with exaggerated dialect. The piece ends with Advice on managing enemies, noting enemies reveal friends and keep one vigilant, drawn from a Sunday Magazine excerpt.
A collage of quotations and light humor touches on manners, jokes, medical quips, a London book sale anecdote, and family life scenes. It strings together witticisms about dogs, honesty, health cures, marriage, and social behavior, ending with a sharp remark from an elderly reader about a preacher’s notes.
The article surveys Earth's immense history, noting rock strata, extinct populations, mountain upheavals, and shifts in continents. It underscores how geologic and fossil records reveal an antiquity far beyond human experience, with coral reefs and coal forests illustrating long epochs before present.
Dr Pierce of Buffalo New York asserts his Favorite Prescription will cure numerous female ailments and weaknesses. The medicine is sold by druggists with a positive guarantee and many physicians now prescribe it in practice.
In Lombardy large fields of water melons are raised solely for making sugar. They are planted on sandy river borders after spring floods. Vines are spaced one foot apart in rows eight feet apart and all directed the same way. Only two melons per vine. Fruit is cut open scraped, pulp strained, juice boiled into sugar.
A play on words notes that experience matters in hotel management. The line suggests seasoned leadership yields smoother operations and guest service.
A historical account portrays Queen Elizabeth as cruel and ugly in appearance yet highly vain. During a Holland embassy audience she sought praise about her beauty and rewarded Dutch ambassadors with generous gifts. The Dutch envoy’s charm led to a chain of 1600 crowns for him, double the others.
St Helena records show Napoleon endowed family with vast sums from 20 to 100 million in our money. Napoleon III inherited wealth at his father’s death in 1846 and received generous allowances after the Strasburg affair. Joseph, Lucien, and Jerome Bonaparte also died wealthy through royal marriages and familial liberalities.
The growing use of Dr Bull's Baby Syrup signals its usefulness for children with wind colic diarrhea or dysentery. Price is 25 cents per bottle.
A survey of famous leaning towers in Italy and Britain notes the Pisa tower and others at Asinelli Garisendi Caerphilly Bridgnorth and Corfe. The second piece recounts a California visit to Mrs Maxwell and Miss Braddon with insights into her writing routine and character focus.
A Boston Gazette humorous observation compares a woman's glove to a vest pocket for men, noting how women fit many items into a small space without bulk. It admires the glove’s efficiency and the ease with which a woman can conceal or reveal articles with a simple turn of the wrist.
English papers report a schoolmaster named Heap suing Miss Marvis for breach of promise after a forty year courtship. She pledged property and a yearly income until marriage but settled for 1000 pounds to suppress letters. Heap's conduct hints at a literary Uriah Heep style scandal.
A fine display of extra choice butter won prizes at the International Dairy Fair. Prized packages were gilt edged in quality and color with Wells Richardson & Co Perfected Butter Color widely recommended by makers and buyers.
A reflective line asserts that while fun brings joy truth anchors life and love defines meaning, presenting a triad of values in a concise moral stance. The emphasis rests on prioritizing honesty and affection over mere enjoyment.
A satirical hotel notice outlines harsh conditions for boarders. It mocks strict, absurd rules including changing sheets every six months, preferring colored cooks, and guardianship of valuables. It hints at improvised lodging policies and comic pitfalls for guests and relatives visiting long-term.
The piece urges a young man to be direct and forceful when pursuing a goal or a favor. It compares assertive, blunt tactics to a charging bull and argues that frankness and firmness yield results, even over politeness or civility. The tone emphasizes bravery over hesitation and stresses speaking one’s mind.
A sick man asks for a cure for back pain and disordered urine, the druggist prescribes Kidney-Wort and he is reportedly cured. The ad urges readers with similar symptoms to buy a box today before incurable illness sets in. Also included are humorous language anecdotes about a Frenchman mispronouncing English.
Prof Tice describes tornadoes as forming from the southwest or south, bounding along the ground, and often drawing water from wells and ponds. They lift water into the clouds, disperse it as vapor, and leave mud on paths. mud can seed hail. Cellars are safest in frame houses, bricks may crush interiors. They occur late in stormy periods, as low pressure wedges between highs drive them eastward.
Explorers report a mountain of obsidian near Raver Lake in Yellowstone, rising hundreds of feet in columnar cliffs and domed masses. They hacked through a glassy barrier by heating and cooling the surface and removing large fragments for use by Native Americans on spears and arrows.
John Bloomingheimer faced Justice Kilbreth after his first offense in Harlem police court. The carpenter admitted being drunk and laying in the street with two children nearby. The judge imposed a five dollar fine, noting it should have been ten.
A Baltimore Sun item notes Edgar A. Wilkins of Bristol England left a humorous message at the Dorsey station on the Baltimore and Ohio line. He claimed lodging and a vegetarian breakfast, while locals point out the nearby field sources for dandelions and peas.
A man credits Hop Bitters with ending six years of severe illness costing $1,200 total and says his wife’s use of the remedy let her resume full housework for a year without a day lost. He urges others to learn from the experience.
The girl’s father will pay a reward of 85 to the young man who called on a girl on Fourth Street last Sunday night and left the yard with a dog attached to his trouser leg. No questions asked.
The Jeffersonville Madison Indianapolis Railroad announces new schedules effective May 19 1879. Accommodations and mail trains depart Madison at 3 30 pm and 6 00 am toward North Vernon Columbus and Indianapolis with arrivals at 5 45 pm 7 21 am 8 08 pm and 10 50 pm respectively. North Vernon and Cincinnati connections noted along with through tickets available at the depot and W H Rogers Drug Store Madison. A Anderson general ticket agent Louisville and Norace Scott superintendent signaled.
R. Wumphrey Master and J. M. Gittner Clerk announce weekly departures from Madison every Monday Wednesday and Friday at noon with return trips from Louisville at noon on alternate days. Passengers from Madison receive meals and arrive in Louisville by evening. freight or passage inquiries to on board or Williams Parton & Co. jani 78.
The notice lists opening and closing times for multiple locations including Cincinnati Louisville Indianapolis North Vernon Aurora Rising Sun Pa triot Vevay Carrollton Ghent Warsaw Hanover Lexington Milton with various 12 M or 2 30 P M close times and 9 P M closings across towns.
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