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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1889
Page
3
A how to guide on laundering revealing starch timing and ironing methods. It covers drying before starching, using spermaceti for gloss, avoiding smelly greases, protecting colored fabrics, flannels washing with soap-suds and milk-warm water, air drying, folding, and ironing with multiple irons and boards. It ends with a wartime recall of a night march and fatigue.
George Middleton, owner of the trotting horse Jack, won a $5,000 stake and free-for-all in Lexington after investing about £3,200 with Jim Murphy. Jack led early heats, then Middleton feared a bad moment, but at the wire the horse finished first, quelling Middleton’s nerves and revealing a calculated deception by onlookers. The tale continues with an old Grenadier’s wartime recollections from Fuentes d’Onoro.
The artist begins with a small wax or clay sketch about six to ten inches high on a board the size of an octavo book. He adds wire supports inside the figure to allow independent limb movement, then shapes the form with modeling sticks to achieve balanced lines and clear views from all sides.
A historical summary describes a German scam starting in Stettin that claimed donations of 1,000,000 stamps would fund hospitals, orphanages, and homes for the elderly. The scheme drew sympathy through myths of Syrian orphan homes, Chinese missions, and various city homes, and reportedly collected over 100 million stamps in the United States, valued at hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. Each claim tied to a location, including London New York Cincinnati and Munich, with agencies urging stamp forwarding to Stettin.
The piece argues honesty can coexist with error and warns against bastard honesty masked by false beliefs and selfish morality. It likens shallow virtue to a vaccine that fails to prevent moral rot, predicting a looming scrofula of souls resistant to cures and urging genuine integrity. Source: St. Louis Magazine.
A critic praised a Royal Academy portrait then learned the sitter was the artist's sister. The exchange turns on a dig about likeness. French tax receipts fell three million francs in August and four million francs in September versus last year, sparking comment.
An American socialists colony in the Sierra Nevada Upper Kaweah region has about seventy five residents living in canvas homes with water, roads, and locally made scrip as pay. Members work up to eight hours daily at 30 cents per hour and receive dividends from surplus, while timber lands, houses, and personal effects are owned privately or in common as the venture expands.
A collage of short items includes a family reading scene with Mr May and Mrs May, a romantic marriage at a railway station in Cochransville, cannibalism reports in West Africa, a sea devil caught near Slaughter Beach, Paris city debt per person, failed attempts to rear buffaloes in captivity, and a quirky line about Ohio and voting at fifteen different times.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway leads in electric lighting aboard trains with a complete central station setup per car, automatic regulation, and a battery reserve. It features vestibule lamps and a patent Berth Reading Lamp in sleeping cars, offering bright, directed light without heat or odor, enhancing comfort and safety.
In a brisk exchange Smythe and Solomon discuss a burglary at their pants shop. They note twenty pairs were stolen but treat it as beneficial due to pants selling cheap, hoping the loss boosts sales and profits rather than harms.
Mrs. H. H. Ford of Corunna Michigan, long bedridden with rheumatism, swollen feet and limited movement, reports recovery after using Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup. She attributes two bottles to curing her and is now well. Druggists may supply or the company will send bottles on payment.
A Sunday school scene uses a lesson about water to illustrate faith and proper connection with Providence. A 5 year old quips you don t pay up revealing the misfit in the minister s plumbing analogy. The article then discusses Bright s disease and the claimed diuretic benefits of Westotter s Stomach Bitters. It cites a London daily about 2500 building associations and over six hundred thousand members with receipts over $100 million in the UK last year.
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one dollar reward for an incurable cage of catarrh and lists endorsements from Toledo druggists and bank officials. A Caribou Maine notice reports a woman harvesting forty acres of grain using a machine reaper with no male help.
An urging advertisement addresses women suffering from ailments tied to female health. It claims health can be regained through Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and promises refunds if unsatisfied. It promotes cleansing the liver and stomach with Dr. Pierce's Pellets as part of the regimen.
A Nash ville Times quote notes a Texas killer blaming the number thirteen as his misfortune. The piece cites Scott's Emulsion testimonials from Dr. Cameron of Halifax and mentions Samtra Moss's puzzling 13 year hunger. Kemp's Balsam ads promise relief for throat and lung ailments while noting price and free trials.
A collage of ads and notices mentions Hibbard's Rheumatic and Liver Pills praised for safety and efficacy for adults and children, plus claims about Dobbins' Electric Soap and various products. It cites curbside quips about burglars, soap odors, bronco army cough cures, and a plug for Oregon migration information. It ends with Tiso's Catarrh remedy.
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