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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1887
Page
3
A curious occult student named Mr. Porcupine Rue demonstrates somniloquism aided by a home apparatus, guiding a coachman’s pillow talk with memories of a lost child. The scene shifts to a rugged Southern bridge scene, describing blue limestone rock, a wildlife themed lichened wall, and nature’s vast span across a chasm.
A publisher prints excerpts from a patron letter endorsing Warner's safe cure for kidney disease. The letter claims kidneys control health, cites mortality data, and asserts widespread medical endorsement. The piece urges readers to trust the remedy and its supposed public verification.
A Cleveland News item describes a "sassiety" belle hobby of collecting neckties hung across a bedpost with monogrammed notes, two months to engagement or the ties go in a black bag, later woven into a silk quilt after marriage, ending in fire at quarrel. It also notes Turkish birth customs, a Vienna wheat grain writing feat, and a giant Austrian eight feet six inches tall named Winkelmeier headed for London.
Important notice urges travelers to save baggage expressage and five dollar carriage hire when visiting or leaving New York City and to stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. The 613 room hotel is fitted at cost of one million dollars with daily rates from one dollar. Elevator, restaurant, and transit connect to all depots. Families can live better for less money at this first-class hotel in the city.
The Chicago Advance quotes Abraham Lincoln’s first annual message dismissing the idea of a fixed relation between capital and labor. It argues that many once hired workers become independent through prudent work, saving, and eventual ownership, describing a just and generous system that opens opportunity for all.
The article argues that daily mental exhaustion harms nervous system health and that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters restores brain and nerve energy. It claims rapid renewal of mental energy and vitality, and notes benefits against fever, rheumatism, dyspepsia, constipation, kidney and uterine weakness, with physicians endorsing it as a stimulant and remedy.
An early 20th century warning describes contagion through towels in institutions with many children and notes the house fly as a carrier. It highlights hygiene lapses in towel use and the need for care in protecting children from eye infections. The ad notes Red Star Cough Cure with vegetable ingredients and no opiates, priced at 25 cents.
A Boston Beacon clipping recounts a funny Back Bay scene where a serious young boy inspects a baby and presents a card with an eight on it, bowing to the mother and asking if she will take it. It also notes reports on spontaneous combustion of wood, Cosson's lab incident, and a caution to builders about air holes and warmth. The piece closes with a terse remark on self-delusion and a polite judge remark.
In a recent Senate debate Senator West of Missouri extolled the merits of St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism and neuralgia. The price is noted as fifty cents a bottle. Also described is the Isthmus of Darien tree killer known as matapalo, a rapid climber that envelops and kills host trees, leaving hollow trunks.
The Chicago Ledger offers a free sample of its Western literary paper with a weekly war memories page and compares costs to Eastern publications. It also promotes at home work from Hallett & Co. with earnings from five to twenty five dollars daily, capital not required and starting free.
A list of patent medicines and domestic tonics extols Dr Harter’s Iron Tonic and McEnn’s Beef Tonic for indigestion debility and specific cures. Also promotes Rough on Pain and Rough on Dirt lines with varied prices and claims. Includes Rovex on Rats and Rough on Corns, Teeth, Coughs, and a general disinfectant claim for Rough on Dirt. Caswell Hazard & Co. touts beef tonic as blood making and life sustaining.
A quirky observation notes that a particular season word is hardly spoken by men when they are in a peppery mood, highlighting gendered language tendencies in heated moments.
A London Christian World advertisement style note asserts Brown's Broncuian Trocurs relieve hoarseness and sore throat. It mentions a rumor about inheriting a landed estate but calls it groundless, addressing a companion.
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