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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1890
Page
3
Tommy, talking with his father, recalls Miss Handsome praising a book about duties to parents. The boy asks about its cost, then hustles off after securing funds for two museum seats and more. The scene captures a humorous, old fashioned exchange in a family setting.
A Boston machine's traveling representative showed a pocketbook full of greenbacks to a Boston Advertiser writer. He claimed large sums were needed west of the Missouri River and said the bills were outlawed antebellum green goods kept for robbery protection, with a special pocket for genuine money.
The tale recounts Captain Josiah Shackford, a Portsmouth native who sailed to Surinam alone in a cutter sloop after leaving his wife. He survived a five week solo voyage, proved solo navigation possible, later settled as Portsmouth Township in Ohio, and remained famously discontent with his wife, denying any woman entry to his home.
The London Graphic recalls the Great Eastern as a grand but failed ocean venture. Once famed for its 691 foot length and 22,500 ton capacity, the ship lingered from 1857 with costly delays and fatal incidents. Though it helped lay the Atlantic telegraph cable, its engines and keel proved inadequate against modern liners.
A detailed critique of prison life for women, portraying compulsion as a bitter stripping of feminine vanity. The piece describes hair being shorn on intake, faces and voices forced to plead, and inmates plotting small defences like hair oil, rouge, and scarlet threads woven into blue shirts to maintain personal charm despite confinement.
A prisoner endures austere discipline and a comic scene as women improvise under orders. An accident shatters a window and the missing glass is found hidden with a strip of dark cloth serving as a substitute for quicksilver. Governor, chaplain, and doctor observe the strange penance and its quiet scandal.
The stokers on a great ocean liner work four hours at a time in up to 120 degrees. They feed furnaces, dodge burn hazards, and vent via a shaft to cool off between duties. After shifts they endure eight hours in the forecastle. A 28 year old veteran recalls hard work but steady meals keep them healthy. A nearly 70 year old stoker remains capable.
Advertises Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup and Strengthening Plasters as universal cures for rheumatic and kidney liver troubles. Cites testimonials from J Larzelere of Albion Michigan and Mrs M F E Jones of Prairie City Iowa praising cures, and offers bottles at one dollar each or six for thirty.
Described as a London Tid-Bill quip about a judge and a prisoner who asks for time wasted to come out of his sentence. The piece shifts to an advertisement praising Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites as a nourishing tonic for delicate children and debility, with a testimonial from Dr. W A Hulbert of Salisbury IL.
A compendium of quirky notes and short items begins with a reader quip about second class matter in papers. It then lists a checker-playing feat by Clarence A. Freeman of Providence Rhode Island, a remedy for asthma using hornet nest tea in Hawkinsville Georgia, a running dog race fiasco in Girardville Pennsylvania, a note about Brazilian settlers in Paris, and a peculiar Ohio marriage pairing near Wapakoneta.
The cork tree, an oak thriving in poor soil along Spain's coast, yields fortunes through its bark. Day's description notes two barks, careful yearly stripping, and a 40 to 50 year prime, with nets and floats derived from coarser bark. Spain's climate and neglect of future planting affect yields.
An 1860s style notice touts Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for invalids who struggle with poor health. It claims the tonic strengthens digestion and assimilation, overcomes nervousness and insomnia, and helps with malaria biliousness constipation rheumatism and neuralgia.
A Boston observer recounts an electric wire accident seen on a windy day. A red Irish setter barked at an English sparrow perched on a high light wire. The sparrow touched a nearby wire and fell dead, while the dog stood in astonishment watching its prey.
Frank J Cheney senior partner of FL J Cheney & Co of Toledo declares firm will pay one hundred dollars for each unrecoverable catarrh case. Notary public certifies oath dated December 8. Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised as internal remedy with testimonials and price. Sold by druggists for ten cents.
A circus elephant named Jumbo grew ill in Belfast and a whisky dose led to a wild escape. He broke a railway gate at Lisburn Station, damaged a private garden, frightened residents, and stampeded horses in a Hillsborough stable, with circus staff searching until 4:30 a.m.
A night and day promotion for Kemp's Balsam claims it cures throat and lung ailments including coughs croup bronchitis whooping cough asthma and consumption. Sample bottle offered free and prices listed at 50c and 1.00. Also notes a remarkable funeral procession in Peking for Tsching Tschu a grand chamberlain and brother-in-law to Prince King with a lengthy bier bearing red planks and many attendants.
Hibbard's Rheumatic and Liver Pills are marketed as scientifically compounded and safe for adults and children. They promise relief from sick headache constipation dyspepsia biliousness and act as an appetizer. The ad also touts Dobbins' Electric Soap and a warning line about an insect in a drunkard's eye.
The piece recalls how Russians gift decorations to foreigners as lower-tier honors. Dumas pere returned a medal of St. Anne after learning its social value, receiving a second class cross with an apology. A singer was mocked wearing the medal of St. Andrew, mistaken for a high honor, while Russians view it as an upper servant’s badge.
Fragmented antique notices. References to Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Little Liver Pills promise health for female diseases. Mentions a diving vessel concept Christopher inspiration and a college dorm remark. Oregon immigration board promotes farming paradise. Bronchitis claim praises Piso’s Cure.
An ode to courage aboard ship contrasts rescue urgency with warnings about blood disorders. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a guaranteed cure for early consumption and bronchial lung ailments, urging timely use and offering a treatise request via Worth's Medical Association in Buffalo.
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