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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1890
Page
3
Investigations by St Paul Garnier show a 30 percent rise in French insanity from 1871 to 1888, driven largely by alcoholic insanity and general paralysis. Men exceed women in cases, with spring bringing the most new instances, especially for general paresis. Alcohol and overwork blamed for much of the rise. cases peaking in May.
In October 1888 a night telegrapher at a Illinois railroad depot recounts seeing two phantom trains approach from opposite directions, one a stock train and the other a light engine and cars. The spectral collision unfolds before his window, with a dead railwayman named Frank Willard later found on the floor. He once doubted ghosts but now believes spirits may visit their former stations.
The piece recounts authors like Dickens Browning Balzac and Sandeau who treat fictional characters as real. It notes Balzac’s habit of mixing life with fiction and the reverence authors place on their creations, sometimes confusing art with reality.
A Paris report describes hypnotism drawing unrequited love from youths and women, producing indifference and renewed passion in others. The Winter Palace at St Petersburg is praised for grandeur despite mixed luxury and squalor. A note recalls Bismarck's peace table souvenir from Versailles. Also remarks on U.S. presidential power and Italian currency production, plus a Gainesville furniture firm’s 1000-piece inlay table and a London inventor for heated piano keys.
A St Paul attorney at the Editorial Convention argues traces of arsenic in a stomach after death are not reliable proof of murder or self-inflicted death. He notes arsenic may exist in all bodies and concentrates postmortem, citing cases where exhumations showed arsenic despite other evidence. He warns juries against overvaluing such findings.
The piece extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safe mild laxative and general tonic. It claims regular bowels are essential to health, warns against violent purgatives, and asserts the medicine cleanses bile, stimulates the liver, aids digestion, and helps rheumatism fever age kidney debility.
Recalled from Brooklyn Standard Union praise for Kate Shelley of Moingona Iowa who saved a passenger train during a flood. The tale notes her heroic crossing of a swollen stream with great risk, while years later she remains the sole support of a widowed mother and three children, living under mortgage after a meager railroad gift and forgotten passengers.
The Amherst College athletics policy will be controlled by a new advisory board of ten members including faculty and alumni, with appointments by the college senate. The change centralizes oversight of athletic policy and finances, prompting wide attention among colleges.
Advertisements tout scientifically compounded pills for headaches constipation dyspepsia and biliousness claiming safety for adults and children. Other notes mention stilts with wheels English invention, Georgia Railroad safety record, iron in food affecting the soul, a soap promotion offering free novels for soap wrappers, Bulgarian rail investment, and a dated quip about wise men.
A vintage note promotes Syrup of Figs as a mild cleansing laxative to dispel colds headaches and fevers. It claims to purge the system effectively without irritation, cleansing the blood and stimulating kidneys and liver for healthier activity.
Reported chat on social events from Harlem women on Madison Avenue about Mrs Blunk's party. note that invitations were scarce and the gathering was selective. Also mentions Russian maneuvers near Volhynia with 250 battalions and various promotional snippets for medicines, land offers, and tobacco promotions from the era.
An excerpt shows a boy seeking medicine from a druggist while his mother is ill. They discuss Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, claimed as a cure for women's diseases, with a mail order offer for a 160 page booklet sent in a plain envelope for ten cents.
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