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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1892
Page
6
A miscellany notes saloonkeepers doubt the Keeley cure and a humorous fiction as The Lowest Lawyer. It mentions overexertion in a Philadelphia rope skipping contest causing two deaths and comments on Washington society. A French officer invents a vitriol throwing rifle and remarks on safety hazards.
The passage ponders whether Emperor William is a victim of self conceit or bears the burden of great potations once associated with Bis marck, framing a moral question about excess and leadership.
The passage notes speculative lawyers pressing for indemnity on behalf of victims, suggesting Chili would need to move out and issue a quitclaim deed of the Republic to satisfy the large claims.
A current news film estimates the funeral expenses of the country as the piece threads through Darrow rackets and Seafishery talks. Juxtapositions include Derew on brain food and a Paterson man thwarting a poker game, plus foreign nobility and the Hopkins Searles settlement.
The text argues that paying 75 million a year for funerals seems costly but living another year is costlier. It suggests avoiding extravagance could cut funeral expenses by about two thirds, presenting economy by reducing ongoing costs.
A Chicago doctor, Dr. H. M. Scopper, who allegedly killed his mother-in-law, faces calls for confinement whether sane or insane. He is said to have brutalized his feeble father during an attempted console visit, while carrying a message from the young man's wife.
Vegans plan substitutes for leather with boots made without animal products by Mr Gottschling. They urge committees to assess hygienic, animal free footwear and consider replacements for kid gloves bone knife handles fiddle strings glue and other common items.
Slowly but surely a woman is invading the realm once sacred to men. Chicago has a woman bridge-tender who performs her duty as faithfully as Horatius at the bridge. The piece likens her courage to heroic verse and notes her Western blue type among card references.
A desperate young man breaks into a clergyman’s house but leaves without theft after his wife and children faced starvation. The family and clergyman obtain lenient treatment and gentle advice. The item also surveys plays by Lill Nye and Hoyt, and discusses legal oddities around counterfeiting disks and tobacco smoke rulings in New Hampshire.
A humorous take on desires for simple fixes and ideal voices. The speaker rails at pretension and excuses, imagining preachers, lawyers, and drinkers aligned with common sense. The refrain laments slow progress and the gap between wishful thinking and hard work.
In Omaha a lively house party watches a hooping fakir from India entertain guests. Frank’s masquerade prank triggers a barber-shop heist that leaves his mustache mysteriously severed while Gertrude’s flirtatious schemes threaten social balance and a sudden confession from the schemer.
In a tale from Wuayverley Magazine, Frank plans a prank with a fakir scare that misleads Idalia Genevieve and Gertrude. Gertrude identifies a vagabond quarry man as the imposter, disguising a trap with a gold dollar in a brass dish. The plan collapses when the duo learns the truth and Mrs. Richardson reacts with horror at the access given to a vagabond.
A dog loyal to his former master refuses reconciliation after the owner marries and moves with his wife. The pet drags his bed to the old home, then refuses to return, illustrating a dog’s jealous, philosophical steadfastness. Also recounted are Holmes lecture terms and a landlady’s reminiscences about his reluctance to travel for speaking engagements.
The Esquimaux trade reindeer skins for seal oi and walrus oil with Siberian Chuckbees at a summer fair on Kotzebue Sound near Behring Strait. Much dancing feasting and trading occur with Carter handling exchanges. Wives are bought at the fair sometimes, with prices quoted around ten dollars.
The text condemns using drastic mineral laxatives like mercury for constipation and praises Hostetter's stomach Bitters as a safe regulator. It asserts the remedy does not gripe, concuss, or loosen bowels and claims it can aid stomach weakness, liver disorders, rheumatism neuralgia insomnia appetite loss malaria debility and kidney complaints.
A historical note tracing building superstitions to blood sacrifices at completion. It describes foundation rites from pagan times and how Christian builders preserved the bloody sign in mortar with offerings of dogs, pigs, wolves, black cocks, or goats, sometimes using a malefactor's blood to heighten the ceremony.
Frank J. Cheney of Cheney & Co asserts in Toledo that the firm will pay $100 for every case of catarrh that cannot be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. The sworn statement dated December 6, 1886, notes the product is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
Officers Kubitzke and Tomaszesky of the Thirty second Precinct arrested Katie Muikowski Paulina Wolleski Adam Potaski John Keskie John Venner and Luke Kulas on larceny and receiving stolen goods charges. Justice Severson fined Potuski and Keskie $100 each and held Mulkowski Wolleski Kulas and Venner in $700 bonds.
A 3-inch display ad from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co promises a single unique word in each weekly issue and offers BOOKS lithographs or samples in exchange for the word. The note adds a quotation about a yellow jacket nest disrupting worship and mentions a Georgia woman’s gray hair turning jet black. Bradyerotine is advertised as a cure-all head ache remedy.
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