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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1890
Page
3
The piece outlines etiquette and playful advice on gifts for bachelors in crowded social scenes. It suggests practical, affordable items for men in apartments, from teacups and linen to silver and mending gadgets. It notes costliness is no longer prohibited if done with refinement and hints at gifts suited to yachts and boats.
Tim recalls the winter accident that cost him an arm when he failed to hear a train at Asbury crossing. His wife Katy saved Baby Tim by pulling him to safety, but a brutal crash left Tim losing his arm and years of hardship behind the sorrowful tale.
A summary of Marcus Aurelius era currency issues in China noting copper cash variability across cities and regions, plus silver and bullion use. and a New York Sun excerpt on Jay Gould receiving vast, mostly hostile mail, with him replying rarely, moving fast, and avoiding detectors.
Surnames began in France around 987 with barons naming themselves by estates, a pattern common in European nobility. Commoners adopted surnames later, largely after Edward II's era. Many names derive from a father’s name, nicknames, or distinctions in size and color, and some crests once displayed publicly may have origins people now overlook.
A dainty flower stand can be built using a table a bucket and six old tin cans. Center the bucket punch holes in each can and screw to the table arches of wire across the tops. Ferns need water so cover the table with a shallow tray to catch drips while other plants stay damp. Geraniums coleus euclias and petunias suit winter blooming and trailing plants in corner cans complete the display.
Prof Meijer reports cloud heights across classes with cirrus reaching about 30 000 feet and cumulus tops around 16 000 feet. Observations from Netleberg note a vertical cloud extent of over 1 200 feet and mixed cloud layers with rain and snow forming as upper clouds thicken.
The 1891 Hostetter's Almanac is praised for health, entertainments, and calculations with editions in multiple languages and free copies from druggists. A Bostonian athlete, Mrs. H E Burmeyer, is profiled for extraordinary strength and endurance, lifting 625 pounds and performing long-distance feats across walking cycling skating swimming canoeing and gymnastics.
A historic advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure. The text asserts I J Cheney as trustworthy and lists Toledo firms WERE & Troax KINNAN & MARVIN as wholesale druggists. It describes the remedy as internal and affecting blood and mucous surfaces, with testimonials and price of 73 cents per bottle.
A miscellany of notices and anecdotes describes hay wagons and a brick wagon on Cassavenue with a banana peddler cart and two Polish boys, plus blurb ads for Kemp's Balsam, Dubbins' Electric Soap, and trivial curios about gold dissolving agents and a diamond studded cradle in the Sultan’s treasury.
A fatherly crockery dealer counsels a newlywed husband about a family jar. The dealer jokes that the wife’s mother, who visits regularly, always brings a jar, implying patience and humor in navigating in law relations. The exchange appears in Epoch.
A collection of testimonial style ads promotes Syrup of Figs as a family cure all and warnings against inferior worm candy. It praises Dr Bull's Worm Destroyers, Brown's Broncial Traches, Breecha m's Pills, Sapolio soap, Dr Isaac Thompson's Eye Water, and Piso's Cure for Consumption with prices and vendors implied.
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