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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1871
Page
1
Advertisement for Henry T. Helmbold's Compound Fluid Extract Catawba Grape Pills claims a pleasant purge surpassing castor oil and salts. It promises rapid bodily vigour, blood purification, and relief from chronic diseases and skin ailments, asserting superiority over sugar coated pills.
An advertising claim details Henry T Helmbold s Extract Buchu and Improved Rosewash as cures for diabetes kidney and urinary problems and skin ailments. It promotes Buchu for urinary obstructions and sexuality related issues and Rosewash as a facial wash for skin conditions. It lists depots in New York and Philadelphia and warns against counterfeits.
Promotes Dr Hooflands German Bitters and Pedophyllia as alcohol free cures for liver disease dyspepsia and blood purification. Describes tonic with Santa Cruz rum and asserts superior extracts from German roots. Claims rapid pill action for liver cleansing and bowel purification, with broad list of ailments and nationwide sale through Druggists and the German Medicine Store in Philadelphia.
The Register lists subscription prices 200 advance 250 after six months 300 if paid at year end and states no paper stops until arrears cleared. Advertising rates for squares months columns vary with size and duration. All ads in advance. job work paid on delivery.
The passage lists various historical measure conversions and common weights. It explains acre size, square mile, mile, fathom, league, Sabbath and day’s journeys, cubit, hand, palm, span, pace, barrel and bushel weights for multiple goods, timber ton, cotton bale, wool pack, government land section, liquid ton, and a box size equating to a bushel.
An old traveler named John Wilmot faced the police court as two stories interlace. He quipped on travelers and vagabonds, praised restraint in others, and mocked folly in politics while his blunt observations drew dismissive verdict. Paris figures and city life close the scene in a rapid aside.
Don Pratt recounts Horace Greeley tale from the Capital. Greeley, irate, dismisses a visitor, a darkey in broadcloth arrives to urge scientific pursuits. Greeley erupts with a sharp rebuke gallerying a hoe handle and New Jersey remark before ordering him out.
Reported in North Carolina, a Hillsboro man planted a sagsairas tree thirty years ago to fashion his own coffin and recently had it cut and crafted. In Murfreesboro another man kept an iron coffin ready since before the Civil War, burying the date 1861 on a brick wall tombstone while living on. He stored the iron coffin in a corn crib and used it for shelling corn, deterred by the fearsome neighborhood guard.
A traveler's vivid account from Cordova describes the annual flagellation ceremony in the main church. Disciplinas slash the skin as lights go out and penitential psalms echo. A railway whistle heralds dawn as the crowd endures this night of grim ritual.
A Norfolk Gazette note describes a traveler cured of neuralgia after visiting a German physician who used a poultice from field thistle leaves and a decoction taken before meals. The remedy is claimed to relieve pain and regularly cure, with strong endorsement to try it.
The article notes Jefferson could have been rich rather than poor if not for the constant influx of visitors who filled Monticello. Up to fifty strangers a day crowded in, arriving by horseback or carriage, and many stayed overnight or for extended periods, exhausting his resources.
Mark Twain discusses Artemus Ward born 1834 Waterford Maine later known as Charles F. Browne and his career from a boy printer in Skowhegan to a reporter in Cleveland. The talk includes Ward’s humor, work ethic, family background, and anecdotes about his early life and inventions such as a steam powered treadmill idea.
John Barnes aged 110, claimed oldest man in the state, resisted court guardianship. He traveled to the county seat and had the guardianship action set aside, declaring he will manage his own affairs and joking that heirs may wait for him to die.
A French traveler from New Orleans on the Strader discovers poker, loses heavily, and ends in a running joke about the game as he departs St. Louis. He vows to avoid poker after the costly lessons, while locals recount his misadventures and misunderstandings of the sport.
A commentary notes how the Neapolitan fisherman's dress becomes iconic for an actor, with a body found at Pompeii preserved in plaster showing a slave’s beads and a shirt of coarse wool. The fragile pose captures a fierce struggle and sudden death.
A young woman injured in a railroad accident is taken to a hospital. The surgeon asks which limb is broken and she replies it is the limb that wears a garter. The doctor admonishes her, saying never say limb to me again or I shall pass you, noting a fastidious tone may hasten her demise.
A feature notes the vast variety of ribbon colors with a playful count of 80 000 shades, highlighting the depth of options for craft and decorative uses. The piece emphasizes the range from subtle pastels to bold hues, inviting creative experimentation in design projects.
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