16 Oct 1878
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1878
Page
1
Fragmented verse recalls a winter dawn with vivid sights. The speaker longs for clarity as bells ring and windless windows frame distant light. A morning scene unfolds in a city street amid music, weather, and distant figures.
The readable portions resemble a fragmented poem or oblique prose with scattered names and phrases. OCR errors leave it difficult to identify clear events, people, or places beyond scattered terms and partial sentences.
A garbled OCR segment shows scattered phrases about a seceding Cray corp and mentions readers and decay. Names and places are unreadable, with sparse legible items suggesting a column of poetry or notices. The readable bits provide little cohesive event or context for a full summary.
A nostalgic verse praising a beloved country cousin with affectionate, idealized traits and a gentle plea for remembrance. The speaker laments absence, exalts her beauty and truthfulness, and invokes a sense of national pride and longing.
A garbled reminiscence from the Polly Ann voyage on the Wabash Canal describes a lively trip with passengers, a captain, a gunner, and townsfolk. It recalls misadventures on deck, odd passengers, and anecdotes about local figures and events.
The piece recalls Miss Kilmansegge and her Golden Leg as a fable noting a 1795 incident where a Scottish lady wore a silver gauze dress at Queen Charlotte scene in the Queen's House. Her garter in gold letters flashed with amour provoking stunned reactions and a chorus of “Well, I never.”
A belief that steady eye contact deters a wild animal is challenged by a wasp which always approaches you head first, making eye contact impossible. The little insect ignores this tactic and persists in its approach.
The Emperor visited a poor officer and his eleven children, hearing of their virtue. He granted 100 florins per annum per child plus 200 florins extra, a lieutenant’s commission for the eldest, and promised to be their father in future. The officer and family wept with gratitude as the sovereign expressed joy at finding virtuous hardship.
A faithful nurse at St Louis Female Hospital administered corrosive sublimate to a patient by error. She blamed herself and whispered that she had killed the girl and ruined others. After the death, she drank carbolic acid and died within hours. Her letters to kin spoke of atonement and sharing the victim's fate.
The Virginia women form a society to retire state debt. In eight months the treasurer has collected 197 dollars and spent 165 on stationery and railroad fare.
Bright vignettes from readers include deaf-mute children at a Massachusetts church a silly hair cut joke from Lafayette Ind a Jed to admire the wisdom line about Mr Tinker and an ice house a Tom Corwin quip on the Whig party and a Kentucky minister’s servant amid a legal scare plus graveyard humor from New York and a Boston sign Quincy Tufts endearing oddities from daily life in early America.
A curiously pithy exchange unfolds as a wife wagers a ha'penny will keep a man awake long, while a placid druggist notes the salts dose extends wakefulness and thanks the heavens for profit over pain in the transaction.
The article outlines uncertain origins of the Arabian Nights and dates most tales to around 1454 in Persia or Syria. It notes early Persian or Syrian influence, references to coffee and tobacco as possible interpolations, and credits Antoine Galland with the first European translation after his Turkish journey and Paris return in 1682. The original collection is named Thousand and One Nights, with only part discovered and translated.
Reports from Port Senry describe a sea monster sighted by Professors Marks and Owen while sailing, claimed to move sinuously with multiple folds and a visible head. The page also features anecdotes, poems, jokes, and quips reflecting a lively late nineteenth century sensibility.
A series of aphorisms on character, self awareness, reading for thought, humility, and virtue. It contrasts vanity with deeds, notes that life improves as it aspires, and suggests practical wisdom over idle talk. It closes with the notion that even a stopped clock is right twice daily.
A column mixes proverbs on prudence and temper with a playful jab at promises to pay and debts. It promotes Dr. McLane’s Liver Pills, warning against imitations and insisting on the genuine Flem ing Bros. product from Pittsburgh, with full branding on wrappers.
A man who read the weather from a goose bone claims a bone answer. In Boston a div orced wife of a bowling-saloon keeper sues for alley money from her ex-husband.
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