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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1880
Page
1
A lyrical meditation on summer fragrance and a childlike recollection of a vanished day. The speaker catalogs garden scenes, faded blossoms, and a beloved girl, linking memory to a sweet-brier and a tomb scene.
A reflective verse narrates fading hope and memory as the speaker recalls past deeds, eyes a Bethlehem manger light, and envisions a future dawn where pain eases and the gleam of a bright star guides toward peace. The speaker contemplates sins, aging, and the promise of redemption.
In a Nebraska setting a revered horse wins hearts with its noble stride and unbuyable grace. A robber named Daher attempts theft but Neber shows mercy, gifting the horse back to the owner and urging charity instead of revenge.
Fragmentary verse speaks of a wind bearing flower perfume from a lady and soft songs of laughter. The lines evoke affection and memory, mentioning a named poet Leonard Joyce as the source of the stanza.
An eleven year old girl reports a dream of a conical pole island near the north pole. She describes a molten sea surrounding a warm tropical climate inside a thin crust, with monkeys and bright plumage feeding on fruit, a central hot blast opening, and an impassable ice barrier beyond. The tale ends by urging polar explorers to heed the girl’s vision.
The text warns against drinking water from open containers or surface sources. It advises keeping water covered in vessels, using covered distributing reservoirs, and preferring treated water. It cautions against drinking large amounts at once or between meals and notes multiple successive sips can harm digestion.
A reflective piece on a mother's enduring love through aging. It contrasts physical decline with persistent devotion and laments youth's neglect, noting how remembrance grows after a mother’s death and expresses bittersweet regret.
The fragment notes Baron Liebig praising the Malt Bitters formula to boost nourishment and strength while reducing debilitation from drugs, reflecting 19th century concerns about medicinal tonics.
The passage urges a shift toward more suitable candidates and less self styled bravado. It calls for fewer loafers at railways and stores and fewer impetuous youths eager to rush into print. It promotes a steadier, more capable leadership corps.
The snippet promotes Hop Bitters as the purest and best medicine made from well known remedies and claims it cures with its own surety. A collage of quips and a joke column follows with light humor about a Bridget and a grandmother, a boy and an alligator, and a coming home club.
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