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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1885
Page
3
A Chicago Ledger item relays a humorous moonlit scene where a couple endures a noisy night. The husband and wife banter over insomnia caused by a howling dog and mischief with dumplings. Subtly, the piece mocks domestic life and public night scenes with wry, satirical tone.
A historical reflection notes that thirty years ago a young broker could build a business with little capital but strong contacts, earning liberal commissions. Today intermediaries face tighter margins as manufacturers source materials directly, telegraphic orders replace brokers, and capital-intensive services gatekeep opportunity for new entrants.
Macmillan's Magazine notes that juniors face extended delays and increased effort as they advance. The piece emphasizes patience and continued striving in the path to achievement, reflecting a period tone on education and progress.
A mysterious passenger on a New York ferry entertained onlookers by lighting five large cigars tied together and smoked them all at once. He calmly answered questions, then alighted at Tompkinsville, tossing the cigars into the sea and remarking that was a very good smoke.
In a Sudanese engagement described by Trith Hicks Pasha, Mehdi followers surge toward a British square. Rockets and howitzers cause limited effects as fanatical chiefs ride in to the cannon’s mouth, but are killed, while Nordenfeldts mow down many attackers.
A Philadelphia Press interview notes that glass eyes wear out after about a year as tear duct chemicals roughen the surface, and thicker matching remains difficult. Rosewood trees in South America and the East Indies yield valuable ornamental wood used for piano tops, with plantations expanding to avoid exhaustion. A Kossuth hat fashion tale from 1851 links dress trends to political icons. Science advances but cannot explain why a boy’s hat brim is chewed.
A Boston man seeks consolation from a West erner about sundown. The reply is stark: business is down, wheat unlikely to improve, new enterprises rare, merchants slow to hire, railroads merely run trains, and matrimony is depressed with a widow needing $20,000 to attract a husband.
Madame Marie Carandini of Wellington writes to the Christ Church Telegraph praising St Jacobs Oil for rheumatic relief and neuralgic pains. The note highlights personal relief and recommends the remedy to readers seeking such benefits.
In Appomattox I found General Lee at McClean's house after a note exchange. An old hillside orchard across from the house shows where Lee halted the advance as a white flag appeared. A farm road winds up through the trees where roots were worn by wheel traffic and a low bank marks the path. General U.S. Grant sent a reply and asked Lee to wait inside a house for the reader to join.
The piece urges peevish people to address feeble health with a course of Hasten Body Stomach Bitters claiming it toning digestion eases nerves and bodily ills. It asserts the remedy conquers dyspepsia fever and ague rheumatism kidney and bladder troubles and liver bowels symptoms while medical practitioners commend its use.
Historian McMaster rejects the myth of the good old days claiming progress in earnings attire food and knowledge. A Thanksgiving sentiment notes wider world experience and improved living. Oliver Cromwell is cited as starting a military career at age 43 and rising rapidly without formal tutelage.
The report notes a dreadful cough with blood and weakness cured completely by Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It cites many testimonials and jokes about divorce suits, while promoting the Grand Union Hotel in New York and a remark about Mormons and spare rib in a separate Atlantic source.
Description of Gukhiwn owned by M. W. Duta at Wayne Illinois, claiming 500 Percheron stock at Oaklawn and 2000 mares on Colorado ranges with 32 Percheron stallions. Also notes massive imports to date totaling 2,000,000 and pedigrees in the Vercheron Stud Book of France. Mentions contemporary cures with Compound Oxygen via inhalation and ads for Drs. Starkey and Palen in Philadelphia.
An 1890s style advertisement for Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription promotes curing weakness and irregularities in women and men, claiming relief from bearing down sensations, internal fever, displacements, and potential cancer concerns. Price reduced to one dollar. illustrated book available with three stamps. Also notes a caustic aside about ward politicians and a Boston suitor calling his beloved bewitching.
Mr Jacob Hyzer of the American Express Company touts Hops and Malt Bitters as a cure for rheumatism and kidney issues after six months of use. The product, made at 136 West Larned street, is advertised with testimonials from ministers and widespread wholesale distribution across the West.
Readers are invited to mail fifty one cent stamps to the American Rural Home in Rochester New York before March first, 1885 to receive a handsome eight page weekly paper free until January first, 1886. The publication is a fifteenth year issue, billed as the cheapest farm journal in the world, with a one dollar annual price in advance.
An advertisement for the Gault House in Chicago proclaims first class accommodations at two price points. Located on Clinton and Madison, the hotel sits near Union Depot with elevator and modern appointments, run by proprietor H. W. Hoyt. The page also contains multiple patent medicine and cosmetic ads from Caswell, Hazard & Co. and others.
Addison Pennsylvania resident A J Holeman recalls violent cold that settled in the lungs and led to spitting blood before trying Allen's Lung Balsam, which helped him recover. Somerset Herald editor A J Colbom also endorses the remedy as the best for colds and coughs.
Languid, tired feelings and loss of vitality are praised as quickly relieved by Hop Bitters. Advert claims irregularities and periodical issues are removed, cites Bradford PA and Rochester NY testimonials from 1876, praising cures for nervousness stomach sickness and infant constipation via mothers' use.
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