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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1890
Page
7
A Petaluma wedding near catastrophe ends in humor as the groom finds the ring in a hole in his stocking after his boots are removed on the altar rails. The incident draws a laugh and a remark from the officiating clergyman about timely marriage.
A grammar school head master scolded the top form for flirting with a young lady after a governor reported the incident. He declined to name the boy out of parental consideration, inviting the culprit to his private room after class, prompting six crestfallen youths to attend the interview.
The piece discusses cerebral sclerosis or atrophy from chronic brain inflammation, listing symptoms such as memory loss, mood changes, and motor issues, and notes differences between senile and other atrophies. It then recounts a Vienna jeweler case where a presumed nobleman conceals a theft linked to a mentally ill sister, followed by a Narragansett Pier reminiscence about a nephew of Jay Cooke who disappears after gambling debts and a mysterious recovered drowned man.
Police hunted a man reported to have outpaced pursuers and fled after a fishing incident. He eluded officers while it was noted he had been fishing for suckers and filling his basket as part of the narrative.
A mother with two children loses a baby in a street accident as bystanders hurry on. In Cincinnati a car worker near death recalls dinner for his children as they are kept away. Fads and urban transit schemes round out a slice of city life in 19th century headlines.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as the sole treatment for deafness caused by inflamed Eustachian Tube mucous lining, offering one hundred dollars for any cured case the remedy cannot handle. Claims local applications fail to reach the diseased area and blames catarrh for nine of ten cases.
A St. Paul resident meets a former poor acquaintance in Minneapolis. The man boasts with cheerful voice that he has received the use for life of a half million dollar Nicollet avenue estate. The twist: the gift is to the public library.
A compact parade of patent medicines and household health tips salutes readers with Kemp's Balsam proclaimed as a universal cough cure, Old-fashioned Doctor recommendations for gout diet, White's Palimonarian for consumption, and optimistic notes on dining cars profits while promoting Dobbins' Electric Soap.
A Paris register office offers couples a small memorandum book with twelve birth spaces to record marriages births and deaths avoiding copies from registries. A groom asks if all twelve must be filled. clerk says fill as needed and return at the thirteenth for a supplement.
A fragmented notice mentions a woman named Tuk who never cares for fashion and needs medicine for a sick headache, with a brief aside about BercHam and a reference to Rino's Lorn.
An ad style pitch claims 1000 buyers at 50 cents to make 500 dollars with one failure losing 4000 sales profits. Makers promise to cure head cold and chronic catarrh, offering a $500 payoff for overconfidence. They urge readers to try the remedy rather than catarrh.
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