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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1886
Page
3
A commercial traveler and his party read a crooked sheriff sale notice posted on a board. A colored constable arrests a drummer for contempt of court and the case comes before a colored justice. The judge, misreading law, releases the prisoner and fines the constable, while the crowd laughs at the courtroom farce.
A Chicago Ledger tale from Northern Ohio shows a lawyer and editor sharing offices and chasing a farmer's rock samples. The official misread leads to a prank investigation, ending with the secretary exposing the lawyer’s bluff about geological specimens.
Six green Shelton residents drove to New Haven to visit a family, were blamed for a smallpox scare, and spent the night in one hotel room. An old woman shut a gas jet and turned the faucet, causing gas smell and flooding. The porter found everyone unconscious but all survived.
A Lincoln anecdote recalls a judge and a drunken coachman on a county road. The piece shifts to a medical critique of sleeplessness and uric acid linked to perceived drunkenness, praising Warner's Safe Cure to neutralize uric acid and end drunkenness in the blood. It cites The American Rural Home as source.
A Washington society tale shows Japanese guest lingering through lunch dinner and midnight, until a friend reveals that in Japanese etiquette the hostess signals departure. The humor stems from differing norms about ending visits and the guest’s awkward relief.
Huxley suggests if everyone faced a life changing chess game, we would learn the game. The world becomes a chessboard with laws of nature as rules, phenomena as pieces, and a hidden opponent who plays fairly yet never overlooks mistakes. Good play yields great rewards, bad play ends in checkmate.
Samuel, a young boy from Portland, returns home with torn clothes and a bruised jaw after a fight at school. His mother and visiting ladies discuss his virtues and future training, while Samuel proudly shows a bloody mouth ridge and asks to have a picture taken for Uncle Jake.
A dissipated lawyer enters a brother’s office with a battered copy of Paschal's Digest and offers to sell it for a tonic. The other lawyer replies that he won’t buy single books, and that if he had a whole library he might buy it. The reply prompts a quip that this battered copy is indeed the library.
Notre Dame near Baltimore promotes Red Star Cough Care as a safe, affordable cold and throat remedy for pupils. The Sisters in charge claim the potion is poison free and costs twenty five cents.
The Binghamton Republican records a quip between Paternal Joke and Maud about monstrosity and shared heads, with Papa musing on definitions. A joke about an elastic stove pipe and doubling the missionary force follows, noting a short cashier often proves longer in discovery than assumed.
A Peoria man injured his ankle and slid down a banister when unable to walk. He describes months of pain before using Athlophoros, which allegedly cured his rheumatism after four bottles. He urges others to obtain it, noting his improved condition and no relapse.
A collection of literary and commercial snippets featuring violet lore from Shakespeare to Ophelia, a note on the Jeux Floraux in Toulouse, a pansy reference, and assorted advertisements. Also mentions medical cures, travel ads, and product pitches from Dr. William Hall and Lyon's patent had.
An old advertisement extols Hostetters Stomach Bitters as a tonic that stimulates urinary secretions and organ activity without overstimulation. It claims to avert renal disease, cure dyspepsia, prevent fever and ague, and relieve biliousness and constipation, while acting as a blood depurent for gout-prone individuals.
The article describes the Delmonico family’s hot water with lemon cure as a cheap beverage reform, explains how to properly boil water, and notes its purported health benefits. It also includes nostalgic ad-style endorsements for Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Dr Walker’s Vinegar Bitters, urging readers to believe in these preparations for women's ailments and general health.
A noisy fragment references Bly’s Cream Balm and Ely’s Cream Balm as cures for catarrh and hay fever. Includes testimonials from John H. Vansant and mentions Men man’s Peptonized Beef Ton tic from Caswell Hazard & Co. Also notes Fly’s Cream Balm as a non liquid remedy and lists price and mail order details.
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