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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1885
Page
3
Analyzing Toledo in Spain, the cholera spread from a sanely built Moorish city to the ill drained lower streets. High in the Alcazar area a soldier sparked the outbreak. eventual cases appeared in a pauper’s ward and a mad asylum, with no official record of earlier incidents.
A mechanic informs Richelieu of a discovery promising national wealth and power. Imprisoned for his delusion, a madman’s tale reaches a British nobleman who notes steam power. The Herald reports War ner's safe cure achieving wide fame and gradual professional approval worldwide.
A Philadelphia record recounts two grooms at a parsonage who struggled with ceremony mishaps. One clutched a cigar during the hand joining, then bit it from the minister. The other balanced a silk hat on his finger, castor between his knees, as the minister struggled to proceed.
The writer describes Icelandic wonders seen in Reykjavik including three large mountain ash trees about twenty five feet tall, appearing healthy, and people preparing white awnings and cloth covered bowers for the long bright Icelandic summer evenings.
A woman and an old man banter over a newspaper’s tale of a cannon able to hurl a 200 pound ball thirteen miles. She asks how long a mile would take and how the weight affects travel, quipping about the lodge homeward bound if fired from such a cannon. The exchange hums with playful distrust of grand technology.
The tale explains how a Pinte maiden signals dislike to a persistent suitor. The grandmother throws hot ashes in his face as a first rebuke and the family escalates with water, switches, and removal from the lodge. Sometimes persistence wins the girl, but rarely. if she agrees she informs the grandmother who then informs the father.
The Washington Post lauds physicians who endorsed Red Star Cough Cure for coughs and colds. The item notes the remedy is effective, free from dangerous ingredients, contains no morphia or opium, and costs twenty five cents. The broader narration wades through authorship quips and adages on character and honesty.
Mr M P Schrock of Chicago describes nearly losing a leg to rheumatism in 1884. After failed treatments and a potential amputation, Arthophoros provided swift relief within days. He returned to work, uses about one and a third bottles, and praises the remedy. The ad urges readers to order directly if no local stock is available.
A fragment from a periodical column recounts amusing and cautionary items. It notes a mother using scripture to persuade her son, William X, away from clerical ambitions, claiming his feet are too large for beauty. Other notes mention quack cures, product endorsements, and small ads.
An advertisement touts California Vinegar Bitters as a versatile vegetable tonic and alterative that claims to conquer stomach ailments and a wide range of disorders. It promotes the Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya by Caswell Hazard & Co as a premier remedy for dyspepsia indigestion and debility, noting its preventive use against fever and ague and its superiority for fever recovery.
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