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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1892
Page
3
A public notice warns buyers against Salvation Oil bottles offered without wrappers or in mutilated condition, urging to demand perfect genuine packaging and to avoid potential dangerous or worthless counterfeits. The advisory notes rising reports and emphasizes caution.
A young, fortunesome woman hires a horse dealer to buy a horse, questioning its training, fit, and age with comic misinterpretations. She insists on forefoot shoes, wonders about the withers and spavmned risk, and leaves with the horse and a $250 bill, the dealer netting $100.
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat letter argues mail clerks face high risk in head end collisions. It proposes light but strong dummy cars next the locomotive to absorb shocks, with rubber or other protective designs from various countries. The writer urges public opinion to push for adoption to save lives.
An anecdote from Burton’s Gold Mines of Midian is cited to debunk the belief that camels are ugly or temperamental. It recounts a Muslim creation story where Allah reshapes the South wind’s breath to form the horse first, then the camel to mock the horse’s complaints.
A Brooklyn Eagle note reports a writer hearing small birds in flight during crane migrations near Crete. While cruising about fifteen miles offshore, a flock of sand cranes passed by the yacht and a peculiar chirping was heard. After firing, three small birds rose from the flock and vanished among the cranes.
A Kentucky political reminiscence recalls Col. Joseph Le Compte a long time congressman from Henry County noted for illiteracy yet strong common sense. He clashed with Thomas Q. Wilson a college bred rival who urged electing an educated man. Le Compte retorted he learned to "butcher the king's English" on River Raisin. The story ends with Le Compte winning reelection.
Bright New York readers discover dollar stories from the World and a carnival tale of art and fortune. An artist recounts turning a revocation into a profitable displayed sea serpent and talking baboon orders, while Hostetter's Stomach Bitters touted for rheumatism and digestive troubles draws a testimonial from a hotel fire survivor.
A collage of past era notices and snippets cites Gen Lew Wallace and The Youth’s Companion promotions, Catarrh cures by Cheney, moral maxims, Jayne’s Expectorant, metal gallium pricing, and assorted quips about love, beauty and brains. The text weaves literary promotion with health ads and miscellaneous remarks.
A vintage advertisement extols the Royal Baking Powder as the purest and strongest option for best tasting bread and cake. It warns against powders offering gifts, prizes, or discounts that may include alum lime or sulfuric acid, claiming those adulterants render food unwholesome.
The article weighs theories about Mars canals, dismissing artificial waterways as unlikely. It argues gravity would limit builders to modest sizes and suggests the canals, if natural, are enormously disproportionate to any conceivable giants.
A mother’s son writes from the countryside describing rough camp days. He mentions a boat accident, a burial, a Lincoln mother’s tears, a boss kicking him, needing money for a doctor, plans to set an old barn on fire, losing his watch, bringing mud turtles, and a tame woodchuck as tidbits of wartime mischief.
The saying contrasts the attracting forces of the maelstrom and comet with the steady fountain and star, urging that it is better to be a fountain than a maelstrom and a star than a comet, living in the sphere of quiet usefulness God assigns.
A new use for the tobacco plant is claimed to be discovered. Its stem and waste are said to equal linen rags in the manufacture of paper.
A historical notice advocates humane rat traps and recommends Ely s Cream Balm as a cure for catarrh. Testimonials claim quick relief, with imperial insistence on safe, effective use and wide customer satisfaction.
A new device is described as a watch set in a leather breeclet to be worn around the wrist. It is touted as useful for women by eliminating the need to disarrange clothing to check the time.
Fragmented advertorial page notes weight loss at small cost with offers to mail two cent copies to Betina Circulating Library in Chicago and subscriptions for Louis Weekly Globe Democrat. It mentions Brass pins by Saravens, Catherine of Aragon, Garfield Tea remedy claims, a telescoping envelope inventor, throat disease cautions, and Braun's bronchial remedies with prices.
A historical note claims pigeons suffer a croup like human cases with a false throat membrane. It advises RerD German Coven and Kipnry Curn as the best safe treatment, sold by druggists in small twenty five cent and large fifty cent bottles from SYLVAN Remedy Co of Peoria Illinois.
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