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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1887
Page
3
The piece presents optimistic and pessimistic views on a boy’s future in New York City. It contrasts the potential of advancement through progress and rivalry with the challenges faced by undereducated youths forced into factory work, highlighting widening gaps between capital and labor and between skilled and unskilled labor.
A guide describes wall ornaments using old boots corsets and a coal scuttle painted in scarlet and blue. It suggests decorating with cotton wool patches for snow, vines on corsets, vegetables in the scuttle, painted tomato cans tied with ribbon, and a gilt star studded water sprinkler for dramatic effect. The tone is descriptive and whimsical from Whithall Limes.
Reflections on self sufficiency urging individuals to be strong companions for family and community. Includes notes on cheese digestibility from the Chemical Society and a western scene about free speech ending in mock threat, plus historical Mary Rose wreck and Canadian foot-walk by electric light becoming popular.
An 19th century prose piece extols the microscope as key to diagnosing Bright's disease and kidney disorders. It claims the instrument exposes disease progression, helps prevent death, and praises Warner's Safe Cure as the sole effective remedy, while noting medical professionals' hesitation to publish the formula.
The text mixes social etiquette instructions with brief notices on machinery safety and hotel promotions. It discusses polite behavior towards women in streets, parlors, dining rooms, and bedrooms, then shifts to a critique of New York counter shaft hangers, hotel advertisements for the Grand Union, and finally Japanese land regulations in Hokkaido limiting ownership to prevent speculation and outlining ten-year occupancy with a $1.20 per acre purchase option.
A miscellany of dramatic figures and curiosities including Bakersville apples 35000 pounds bought this season and Sing Sing prison consuming twenty one barrels of flour daily. Eastport herring sold nationwide as imported sardines. A Detroit supper misstep left fourteen guests pledging with ink mistaken for port. London Lancet reports tea leaf chewing triggering delirium tremens like attacks. Warren County New Jersey onion yield 20000 bushels last season with next cycle expanding to 250 acres. Madeira pork praised for flavor from fruit and nuts diet. Tennessee peanut crop valued at 700000 dollars with 42 bushels per acre. New Hope Cal farmer expects 500 acres of potatoes yielding about 50000 dollars. A Tehama County wheat sale netted 225000 dollars. California native raisins gaining ground against Spanish imports. A quip on why things are sixes or sevens, followed by a scolding for feminine ailments and promotion of Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription at one dollar.
A Philadelphia Call snippet hints at a tense domestic ruse as a wife suspects her husband Charlie stayed late at the office every night. She questions his alibi while a neighbor overhears and a drug store telephoned clue emerges about his whereabouts. The piece then shifts to a Marine Hospital physician in Baltimore endorsing Red Star Cough Cure as safe and effective for children, priced at twenty five cents.
A Saint Louis Globe report extols Japanese sabers as vastly superior to Sheffield and Birmingham swords. It notes Japanese soldiers commonly split a pig with one stroke and even iron bars can be cut without damage to the blade.
An 19th century ad style piece touts Hosetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy to stimulate urinary glands, purify blood, aid digestion, combat biliousness, fever, and early decay. It hypes safety and universal benefit, then shifts to crime fiction and a job scheme from Portland and Westboro. It notes a Chicago Ledger serial by Edmond C. Strong and a work-at-home opportunity claiming high daily profits with no capital.
Manufacturers urge public endorsements forDr Harter's Tonic and Liver Pills and a range of remedies. See Rough on Pain, Catarrh, Piles, Worms, Itch, Corns, Coughs and more. Also claims for disinfection cleaner Rough on Dirt and a pronouncing dictionary offer. Includes hotel laundry machines and Piso's Cure notes.
A fragment quotes the Boston Star suggesting a lynching party in the West spared Diop for lacking a single foot of rope. The remark hints at violent mob action while underscoring the era's brutal vigilante justice.
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