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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1880
Page
1
The poem laments urban drift and cherishes rural labor and home. It contrasts city weariness with fields and sea tied memories. The speaker recalls old homestead, vines, blackberry thickets, and Indian pipe while praising farming life as rational and enduring through history.
A poem recalling Irish history with references to Lord Edward Wolfe Tone Owen Sarsfield and Sarsfield. It contrasts the Irish Green and English Red through battles and sacrifices while asserting hope that the Green will rise above the Red in the end.
A reflective poem on aging and time by Wm D Pollock. It contrasts youth with aging, memory with loss, and contemplates mourning change as the years soften the heart and seek peace in heaven. The verses recall love, friendship, and the passage of life through winter imagery.
An evocative verse fragment describes old sheets and mossy caves with swallows nests. It traces shadows by elm boughs and orchard walls as quiet birds fly and distant bells or tunes drift softly.
A well dressed man shows a brass button said to be shot from General Hancock s coat at Gettysburg. The story spirals as multiple bystanders claim similar relics and trade them in pawnshops and stores amid boasts and laughter.
Edward Young of Hartford presents summaries from European authorities on how climate shapes American temperament and civilization. Doctors Reich, von Pettenkofer, Santa, Buechner, Muhry and others compare dry American air to damp English air, linking heat loss, nervous energy, and physical form to national character and aging.
An old advertisement touts Hop Bitters as the remedy for poor health promising fair skin rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes. It mocks costly beauty aids from France and claims health strength buoyancy and beauty come from Hop Bitters.
In Macon Georgia a moonlit hill scene unfolds with a weary singer named Augustus serenading from a vine trellis. A white robed man calms a chained dog, then returns to bed muttering about hunting a patch-work quilt and a pistol pocket.
A pet dove grieves for its mate after a collision with the Pacific express near Rathboneville New York. Each morning at 7 she goes to the mile post, hovers around the locomotive and smoke stack, then returns to her cote mourning the loss.
A five minute chat fuels a woman's long tale of gossip and family notes from Mrs Stuckup to Miss Giddigurl and beyond. The piece ends with a comedic aside on hair tonics and a quip about a sea Captain becoming a C Major in musical marines.
A London rumor claimed Burke had gone mad in retirement at Beaconsfield. A visiting nobleman sought truth and learned Burke remained lucid and gentle, caressing a beloved late son’s horse that recognized him and laid its head on his chest in quiet sympathy.
The 1650 Connecticut ordinances forbid tobacco use by anyone under 21 or unacquainted with physick approval. It bans public smoking on streets and training days with a sixpence fine per offense, payable on conviction as witnessed by a single magistrate. Contables must present violators to the respective courts.
Dr. William Roberts explains oysters are eaten raw due to their self digesting liver glycogen and hepatic diastase. Crushing the oyster brings these two together, enabling self digestion. cooking destroys the ferment, requiring the eater’s digestion like other foods. London Medical Record.
The piece criticizes Joshiah Gwinn for his debating stance on Mr Landers and the enthusiasm of New Albany on Monday night. It compares Gwinn to Granville Johnson and jabs at political content in county papers. The Boston Transcript notes musicians are judged by their accompaniments.
Two hobos in Montcalm street devise a ruse to beg from a homeowner. Their plan collapses when a six foot husband appears and knocks one man down, then pounds the other and flings them over a fence. The pair part ways in disgust.
The Marion Indiana address accuses James A. Garfield of partisan actions during the 1876 election. It claims he traveled to New Orleans to assist the Republican cause, served on the Electoral Commission, and helped overturn West Feliciana’s Democratic votes. It portrays him as central to fraud and improper juror conduct.
The article recounts a past incident where Mr. Beecher describes offers from a syndicate of 300000 for a year of lecturing and an advance of 150000 plus monthly payments. He also mentions P. T. Barnum offering 10000 for ten Coliseum lectures and a Baltimore suitor paying 100 per evening to sit on stage silently.
A Texas youth Tom Ochiltree rises to law after studied mentorship with a judge. He becomes a partner as the judge commissions a grand sign reading T P Ochiltree and Fathers Counsellors and Attorneys at Law. At Leadville a pie and coffee bill is met with a sharp quip about staying for health.
A humorous quip on social norms asks if a woman should kiss a man who chews tobacco. The line suggests permission if she herself chews, reflecting playful etiquette from the era.
A New York Works piece recalls General John A Logan waking the echoes of the Green Mountains with stalwart Western oratory. The Tribune praised his entrance describing him as a trick mule in a circus ring and his axe smiting the English language in the face.
Inprana PO is Sept 3 the motion for a new trial in the Wade and Mrs Brown murder case has been overruled. The court sentenced them to hang October 27 for the murder of Mrs Browns husband. A note on reptiles and a strange question about filling a flowing bow appear in the public record.
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