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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1882
Page
4
Article outlines restoring soil potash with unwashed wood ashes and kainite gypsum mixes, noting effects on beet sugar yields and clover. It also provides a pickling method for green peppers with vinegar, spices, and cloves, packed in jars or bags and sealed.
A Honolulu correspondent describes adjoin ing the police HQ a leper shelter and the sorrow of families at the departure of lepers to Molokai. He recalls two men aboard the Warwick bound for Kalawao and the wrenching farewells onshore as the ship leaves.
A stranger at the Union depot asks a clothing store clerk how far to a destination. The clerk counters with offers on jackets, vests, hats and undergarments, culminating in a shouted question about Dan to Ber as the shopkeeper peddles thirty to forty cent goods.
An old relief claim advertises a universal remedy for kidney bladder and urinary ailments. The terse notice urges purchase from druggists and references a depot location with a cryptic product code.
The Weekly Herald once sold for 35 cents. This item recalls the publication’s price point and its historical context in the newspaper market.
The article argues words reveal character and vocabulary guides social judgment. It urges teaching etymology, meanings, usage, and history, not just spelling, with emphasis on practical writing and daily word study for pupils, recommending more time for word study and a treasure-like approach to language.
A brief exchange in Texas Siftings shows a guest insisting on staying longer but being urged to return home. The host guarantees safety on entering the house and asks about the wife who is staying up for him, then they bid good night.
Accounts describe an explosion of violence in Lancaster with a white man and a colored man exchanging shots, leading to several fatalities and injuries before order was restored. Separately Captain Woolworth redirected eight hundred steer herd from Springer to El Mora Colorado for shipment to Denver and Chicago via multiple rail lines.
A Chicago Tribune note mix reports on George Ames's fall from a Richmond Grand Hotel window. Moody’s Scotland visit ends as he tours Europe. a $12,000,000 jewelry theft at an exposition. a country wife jokes about slippers. urban crime and civic notes including mastodon bones in Dallas and political moves involving Blaine and Nebraska.
Martin Thayer died Wednesday evening after being shot by G W King of Ossian in Wells County on Monday night. King waived examination and is jailed at Bluffton on $5,000 bond awaiting November trial.
An assorted page notes a patent medicine advertisement for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup curing teething distress in children and promising safe, pleasant relief. It also reports editorial changes with Joel P Heawood purchasing in Gilenco Minnesota Enterprise, Henry Holt buying the Franklin Jeffersonian, and Francis Johnson’s senate candidacy withdrawal.
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