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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1882
Page
3
A period medical column warns against trusting Green wart remedies and scarlet fever cures, promotes turpentine for croup, bee tea for strangury, careful nursing with covered refreshments, and a creosote-based treatment for bronchitis and catarrh with detailed preparation and dosing, citing Dr Paccioti and American Agriculturist.
A Pall Mall Gazette excerpt contrasts Eastern and English coffee customs. It praises daily morning roasting and pounding to an impalpable powder, uses specific tools like the copper ibrik and eggshell cup, and notes the precise heat management and presentation in Eastern homes. It argues that careful, slow preparation elevates the beverage above casual methods.
A Maine pastor near Bangor operates three churches and diverse enterprises. He runs a salmon fishery, a large farm, a coal office, a teamster route, and owns carriages. He is a road contractor, stage coach owner, partner in a public bath and mineral spring, a turnpike gate order, lodging house keeper, guardian of the poor, a board of health member, and a sheep shepherd.
A fragment describes a female alligator laying 150 to 200 eggs in mud and grass as a swollen heap. The male, or center, faces a long incubation of a week or two to hatch the colony while the sun provides the heat. The text notes a paternal reaction to the abundance.
A vivid scene portrays a father with 172 hungry mouths to feed and educate, moving along the shore to secure food and clothing for his many children. He appears astonished, like discovering an orphanage in a clothes basket, while he scavenges meals from wary dogs and bathing urchins, even amid unlikely calamities.
A detailed study by Charles A. Cameron analyzes morning and evening milk from forty two cows at the Government Agricultural Institution Glasnevin Dublin. Results show higher solids and fats in evening milk, with averages around 13.2 to 13.74 percent solids and about 4.2 percent fats, based on meticulous ether extraction and ash determinations.
At the Milan Italian Industrial Exhibition the Mason & Hamlin Organ Company won a silver medal and diploma for their cabinet organs, the only reed organs awarded a medal. The organs drew Italian interest and were shown by Carlo Ducci to the royal court in Rome.
An Union officer recalls a bright Irish soldier who, after a charge and retreat, refused to hand over a captured rebel flag. He tells the officer to take it to the rear, while joking there are plenty more behind the ridge for others to claim.
A collection of quotes and reflections on life, virtue, and human nature from figures such as Arabioc Proverb, Old Proverb, Horace Walpole, Johnson, Emerson, and Courton. The passages touch on work and patience, luck, kindness, naturalness, temper, simplicity, and mental pleasures, with broad observations on humanity.
An 19th century advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a superior tonic and nutritive for bronchitis coughs colds and incipient consumption. It asserts the dead cannot be raised and promises pamphlets via Buffalo New York publishers.
The Virginia City Enterprise notes Piute and Indian practice of river crossing by treading water with sticks held forward. Squaws and children carried four to six foot sticks, moving hands alternately while feet tread water, keeping water below shoulder level.
An anecdotal letter from Buffalo New York extols Favorite Prescription claiming it cured dragging down and other female ailments after six years of suffering. The message also references free pamphlets and a quip about an elderly man gaining interest in another business.
A Republican notice extols Hop Bitters as a pure effective medicine made from well known remedies. It argues bogus certificates claim miracle cures and urges polite treatment of helpers to ensure respect.
A Missouri farmer in debt reassures Walt Perkins that he will settle next year. He outlines a plan to raise corn, trade for an oxen yoke, swap for an old mare in St Charles County, and ultimately grow mule colts to pay the twenty five dollars owed, promising the first mule colt as payment.
A Victorian health testimonial touts Hop Bitters as a cure for kidney trouble and general debility. The old speaker claims renewed vigor at 72, comparing blood and kidney health to youth and praising the remedy as worth a trial despite age.
A Chatsworth Tennessee resident endorses Pigso's Gaze as the best remedy for consumption, coughs, colds, sore throats and asthma. The testimonial claims Pig's Cre for Consumption is the best cough remedy on the market with no exceptions.
An 19th century advertisement lists Electro-Voltaic Belts from The Voltaic Belt Co Marshall Mick offering a thirty day trial for nervous debility and vitality loss with a guarantee of restoration. Also promotes Dr Winchel’s Teething Syrup, Munsatan’s Pekroxy, Einert’s Liver Pills, Hulman’s absorption theory, Catneline deodorized extract, Mass Organ Tournettes, Uncle Sine’s Nerve and Bone Liment for rheumatism sprains and bruises. High ad density with multiple products and claims.
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