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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1871
Page
1
An advertisement listing Hoofland’s German Bitters Hoofland’s German Tonic Hoofland’s Podophyllin Pill and Hoofland’s Greek Oil as patent medicines offered to readers, implying health benefits and cures through proprietary formulations.
Proprietary fluid extracts and pills claim to treat liver complaints jaundice and digestive issues with pure vegetable ingredients. They are advertised as pleasant purgatives that tone the system without griping and are not sugar coated, asserting adherence to pharmacy standards.
An 19th century advertisement extols a blood purifying remedy by Wenry T. Tlelmbolds. It claims to eradicate scrofula syphilis fevers skin diseases and numerous ailments from the system and to restore mental clarity and a healthy complexion. The text emphasizes purifying the blood renewing chronic diseases and curing pains and swellings of bones joints and skin eruptions.
The advertisement touts Helmbold's medicines for a wide range of ailments from urinary and sexual disorders to skin conditions. It claims efficacy across sexes and ages, mentions antidotes for urethral strictures, and promotes Rosewash as a facial cleanser. It warns about counterfeits and lists New York and Philadelphia depots.
An 19th century patent remedy advertisement touts Dr Hoofland’s Podsphyllia as a non alcoholic substitute for mercury pills. It claims extracts from German roots cure liver and digestive ailments and promote health with a bitters and tonic that include Santa Cres wine. It cites price and supplier details with warnings against cheaper imitations.
The Register lists subscription options and advertising rates for the newspaper. Yearly prepaid prices are given, with penalties for delayed payment and continuation rules. Advertising rates cover local, quarter, half, and whole column placements with time-based pricing and doubling for local notices. Transient ads require advance payment and job-work on delivery.
A long reader advisory warns against drunken, dishonest, licentious, or boastful doctors. It urges selecting a morally temperate, capable physician with good manner, neatness, and up-to-date knowledge, citing signs like family respect, patient welfare, and practical skills.
A admonitory note urges young women to avoid slang phrases such as not much can’t see it and you bet. The author argues slang lowers a girl’s refinement, degrades her from a pedestal of purity, and tempts her toward flippant, saucy speech that disgraces proper conduct.
A Cincinnati dentist confronts a man seated on his doorstep for days. The visitor confesses an aching tooth he cannot bear to pull, insisting the doorsteps prevent pain. The dentist urges him to relocate to other neighbors, to which the man balks, claiming the tooth would be treated elsewhere.
An article in the London Morning News reports a Plymouth to London express that could be the fastest on the globe. Departing Exeter at 10 30 AM, it is timed to reach Paddington at 2 45 PM after brief Bristol and Swindon stops, totaling four hours and thirty minutes for four hundred ninety four miles.
A Western paper article notes a reader asking if it is ladylike to retaliate by a gentle squeeze when a man touches her hand, advising subtle restraint. It references misplaced memories and a sense of distance from youth, mentioning England and a Boston sale with gold value and a real estate price per square foot.
A cautionary essay advises young people chasing a city dream to temper expectations. It warns that success requires money and connections, and that city life often yields long hours, isolation, and hardship rather than immediate reward. It emphasizes self-reliance and warns against leaving the country without support.
A Newark Courier correspondent describes Congress Hall and Stetson kitchens supplying poultry vegetables dairy and seafood for about six hundred guests per meal. Cooks use charcoal for broiling steam for boiling and coal fires for baking and frying. Space limits and waste are noted with staff of seven men and nine women handling meals and dishwashing. The report also mentions religious charity debates and a racist slur amid a separate street scene.
This reflection describes two forms of will power aggressive and passive. It praises enterprise and conquest while stressing the passive will as resistance that anchors virtue. Youth faces temptations and must begin practicing self restraint early to build discipline for greater trials.
In a Paris cabinet scene during the Communist era a Rothschild host is approached by two intruders demanding bread. They claim France has thirty million people and that Rothschild has hundreds of millions, proposing a share. He dismisses the idea and offers ten francs, leaving the men perplexed as they leave with the money.
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