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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1886
Page
3
Elia C. Lapham argues for a training school to empower untrained women who want work. The piece urges a broader social duty beyond charity, calling on middle and upper class women to aid real employment efforts, improve tenement housing, and broaden their outlook beyond exclusive circles.
Dr Golden of the Globe Democrat recalls treating gentlemen with alcohol withdrawal. Patients described visions of flowers and bands, strange animal comparisons, and pigmy troops on the floor. Several wrote checks and recited antique languages seeking sleep, which the doctor aimed to provide.
Mr Charles Marvin notes America as the leading petroleum power with Russia rising after Baku field development and England urged to claim third place. He flags Burmese and Egyptian fields, calls for Indian survey of Burmese oil, and mentions bulk transport growth with tank steamers on the Tyne. He also records 1482 Caspian oil activity and European tanker imports, alongside minor notes on marble and ink stain remedies and Mormon missionaries in Turkey.
An eight year review asserts kidneys drive blood purification and whole body health. It warns of congestion damage from habits, explains internal filters and pelvic pus, and links diseased kidneys to heart failure, dyspepsia, and nervous disorders, urging Warner’s Cure to protect and restore kidney function.
A New York City public building in City Hall Park holds a deep and dramatic past. It served as a British prison during the Revolutionary War housing patriots like Nathan Hale and Ethan Allen. After evacuation in 1783, it was shabbily repurposed, its bells later moved, and it now tolls for prisoners on Blackwell Island.
A Cincinnati Commerc ia Gazette excerpt urges young women to embrace outdoor life and equestrian pursuits in light garments with loosened corsets. It extols riding as a source of beauty and vigor, arguing that nature accounts for most charm while fashion supplies the rest, urging bold, athletic leisure over sedate tea.
A reflection on aging and cosmetics contrasts natural beauty with artifice. The piece notes past suspicion of powdered faces, while now Parisian beauty is admired though artificial, linking it to fashionable dissipations and social scenes in Saratoga and Long Branch, calling it Vanity Lair.
A busy exchange at a luncheon features a waiter describing roast beef and roast duck to a commercial traveler. The traveler jokes about fashion details, while a New York Times ad touts Hostetters Bitters for malarial symptoms and related ailments, followed by a quip about brewers and hops.
Visit and depart New York with baggage, expressage and $3 carriage hire. Stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. 613 rooms fitted at a million dollar cost. European plan elevator restaurant supplies. Horse cars stages and elevated railroad access to all depots. Families can live better for less money at this first class hotel.
A compact column offers guidance on happiness through effort, enduring adversity, and personal responsibility. It contrasts self supporting youth with dependents, notes faith and hard work as keys to success, and includes brief endorsements of remedies and medical opinions from period sources.
A historic Sicilian massacre erupted at Palermo on March 30, 1282, when French rulers were reviled by locals. A confrontation over an insult led to a brutal uprising. French deaths mounted as mobs roamed the island, with estimates of up to eight thousand killed during the rebellion.
An assortment of dubious claims and patent medicines flood the page. Nostalgic quack lines promote universal cures for diseases, weighty fantasies of wealth, and home income schemes. Notable products include Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Rough on Bile Pills, with Hallett & Co. offering at home work promises.
A compact excerpt contrasts shamelessness in sin with repentance and cites Brown's Bronchial Troches as a safe remedy for bronchitis coughs and throat troubles. The ad promotes boxed troches at 25 cents, typical of period health advertisements.
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