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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1885
Page
2
The Regis yver reports a Virginia suit against a mutual insurance company with upward of 30 000 parties named across five columns in a Richmond paper. The Reichstag opening speech is shown in large letters due to Emperor William’s reading difficulties without spectacles.
The report portraits Bisnor Canyon as a future head of the Mormon Church, detailing his upbringing, devotion, and extreme measures to sustain Mormonism. It notes his four marriages, Salt Lake City property with a house per wife, a central school for twenty six children, and his monthly rotation among families. It also mentions Senator Pannen of Michigan with a high income and Palmer's youth in Spain, ending with reflections on illusions and the three alleged realities of life.
The New York correspondent reports Reverend W. H. H. Murray runs a Montreal cafe about sixty by fifteen feet. Its decor features toboggans, snowshoes, lacrosse sticks and a ladies' section behind muslin curtains. Murray, now grayer, remains bright eyed, modest, and reserved socially. A matrimonial agency tale ends with a widow's swift remarriage and a staged arrest that tests her claim of having a living husband.
The article surveys a mass of topics from the Crouch massacre and Washington society figures to Christmas in Paris under siege, then shifts to glacial history in the Alps and the rise of sea bathing as a public health practice, citing Venetz, Forel, and early English seaside resorts. It blends anecdotes, quotations, and antiquarian reflections across periods and places.
The article traces sea immersion from classical antiquity where survivors offered votive tablets to Neptune, through medieval times when various ablutions carried religious significance. It notes a lingering fear of the sea and the ritual responses of cultures to peril faced at sea.
The article details steel pen production from rolling sheets to strips three inches wide, annealing to remove brittleness, thinning to standard pen thickness, blank cutting, stamping, shaping for grace and strength, and the ink distributing slit. It describes hardening by cherry red heating and quenching, tempering to straw then blue, and instant water quench to fix elasticity. It notes slitting, polishing, pointing and finishing require dexterity, with little change in twenty years and prices from 75 cents to one dollar per gross.
A tale recalls Dean Buckland father of Frank Buckland the famed naturalist. His Westminster deanery housed a menagerie of live and dead beasts. A grandfather recollects dining with Buckland where a dish tasted like fox to satisfy the dean’s long curiosity about fox meat.
A description of catfish used as a folk remedy in African cultures. Native children screamed at the sight of the fish while it was bathed with, touched, and drunk water from. the fish was eaten as a cure all for both external and internal use. The note ends with a quote about wisdom.
A public letter extols Warner's Safe Remedies for kidney liver and blood disorders as protective against epidemics. It claims permanent cures based on six year experience, with guarantees and testimonials, noting multiple products and a pledge of $5,000 for proof to the contrary.
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