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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1871
Page
1
An advertisement extols H. T. Helmbold's Compound Fluid Extract Catawba Grape Pills as a superior purgative replacing castor oil and salts. It asserts they soothe the stomach, avoid nausea, give system-wide vigor, and are not sugar coated or patent medicine.
A fourteen year old girl Bessie Lincoln overcomes age doubt and harsh bully Tom Miles to win a teaching post. Her humane approach replaces fear with trust, transforming Tom from troublemaker to top student and earning her another term. The tale blends small town grit with moral progress in a late 19th century setting.
An 19th century advertisement extols Welmbold’s Extract Buchu and Hoofland remedies purporting to purge the blood and cure chronic diseases. It lists ailments including kidney, liver, skin, and sexual disorders and claims safety, efficacy, and extensive distribution through depots in New York and Philadelphia. It promotes German Bitters and Tonic variants, with cautions about counterfeits and guidance to buy only from official offices.
In Pennsylvania long ago the Van Schreubendyke line held a remote farm descended from Peter Van Schreuabendyke. Johannes, sixteen, learns a hard pun about balancing a grist bag with a stone. The father rebukes the youth for thinking himself wiser than his ancestors.
A Chicago post office fire story notes an office cat present during the blaze. The cat, unnamed or unnamed, helped in moving the safe and survived by sheltering in a water-filled pail. The animal is described as a public spirited worker who remained in the burned district through Sunday night and Monday.
English physiologist and biologist Dr William 3B Carpenter reports findings from the Porcupine in the Mediterranean and Straits of Gibraltar revealing an outward flowing under current counterbalancing the inward surface current. He says surface water evaporates, becomes denser, sinks, and bottom layers move outward, driven by heat, suggesting a global oceanic circulation with opposing surface and bottom currents. Confirmation and repetition are needed.
Two English elms two Scotch larches two Norway spruces and a weeping willow were planted around Braddock’s grave in Unionville Pennsylvania. The willow was brought from near Napoleon’s grave at St Helena to honor the death and burial tradition, replacing a decayed forest tree marker. Beecher gets $250 for a lecture.
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