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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1882
Page
3
A collage of health notes on skim milk in Bright's disease, beef tea debates, and practical home cures. Advice covers soda water for burns, salt gargles for sore throats, and poison first aid with mustard and egg white. Includes a boastful bicycle anecdote and guidance on speedy recovery actions.
A New York grocer hikes tea from 3 shillings to 45 cents per pound, prompting a farmer with cider vinegar to question the rise. The broker replies tea-chest scarcity while cider costs eight cents per gallon, then cider slips to 7 cents as buyers exchange quips about bung-hole plugs.
A country surgeon describes riding a bicycle for five years and this summer relies on the bicycle for daily work, turning out horses, averting fatigue, and finding less monotony than driving, while covering about fifty miles daily.
A detailed note from A World of Wonders explains ant society and the slave making behavior of Amazon ants. War bands raid nests at night, seize larvae and pupae to train as slaves, and return in long orderly columns while the enslaved workers care for the captives upon arrival.
Century Magazine recounts A. T. Stewarts failed charity scheme built to house a thousand working girls. Experts warned the design risked police intrusion or moral laxity. advocates advised smaller, supervised homes. Stewarts self confidence and wealth yielded little public benefit or enduring honor. The piece also notes Grozazza's tiny foreign born population of 10,664 in a 1,542,000 state population.
The piece argues too much knowledge dulls originality. It cites Hawthorne’s museum visit and writers Sumner and Webster to contrast encyclopedic memory with creative thinking. A reflective essay from the Indianapolis Herald discusses education’s cramming flaw and the value of independent thought.
An ad extols PutNam’s Painless Corn Extractor for removing corn pressure from the outer skin without deep flesh soreness. It claims quick, painless relief and urges skeptical sufferers to try it for a complete cure. The page also parodies a lawyerly quip about brewing and baking status, plus a comic line on kissing wives on Sundays.
A collection of historical curiosities cites royal influence on orphan heiress estates under James I, a monk named Godfrey as early theater manager, Fontenelle's last words on existence, Voltaire's inoculation advocacy, Henry III era comfits craze, Duc de Genuse found with a comfit box, 1751 French dandy dress, and Sir Thomas Parkyus’s stone coffin collection.
A call against selling vile cathartics for liver and dyspepsia and a recommendation for Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as a strengthening tonic. The piece urges using true medicinal tonics with Yellow Dock, Sarsaparilla, Iron, Celery, Buchu and Calisaya to heal stomach, liver and bowels.
A Chicago Inter Ocean reader from Xenia, Ohio recounts recovery after using Dr. Quysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. The article notes coal as the core industrial energy of England, employing over 500,000 under mining regulation and producing 135,000,000 tons annually valued around 250 million dollars.
An early 20th century notice extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medica Discovery as a cure all for coughs colds sore throat bronchitis laryngitis and consumption in early stages. It claims blood purification strength restoration and liver relief with universal umbrella exchanges noted in a local Bridgeport sermon report.
An Arkansas joke aside, the article touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets and Golden Medical Discovery as health aids, claiming they cleanse the blood and bowels to prevent fevers and cure humors. It promotes Worth's Dispensary Medicine with two stamps for a large treatise and notes a Scranton Republican anecdote about a barber chair chloroform request roaring with local humor.
A Geneva Illinois man over 80 recounts paralysis four years past and recovery after Burdock Blood Bitters. He notices vigor return and endorses the Buffalo NY remedy, with thanks to the makers. Sold by all druggists. Boston Times quips about a boy and a clothes line in a separate aside.
Elmira New York resident Nash Bates recalls a four year illness with pilous fever and weakened digestion. After two bottles of Burdock Blood Bitters he shows marked recovery and can work a full day at six years old. A married woman teases her husband about never visiting the cemetery and he replies that is a pleasure he still anticipates.
Mixed items from 1881 include medical cures and testimonials for Safe Kidney and Liver Cure and other remedies, humorous quips, and assorted advertisements. Notable mentions reference H. H. Warner & Co, Buffalo testimonials, and Lydia E. Pinkham products alongside generic health claims and light editorial jokes.
Prof Charles Hastings outlines two main theories of Earth structure at Johns Hopkins. One argues a fluid interior with a thin crust, supported by subterranean heat and volcanic activity. the other posits a solid globe, with crustal and density arguments. He suggests a reconciled view, proposing a tarlike fluid interior as most probable.
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