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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1890
Page
3
The Mifflin Centre Blade recounts a comical yet distressing incident. A wife washed a white vest containing fourteen dollars in a fold, only to have a brindle cow devour the vest and money after wandering through the back gate. Despite protests, the cow’s owner Ferdenbaugh refuses to slaughter the animal, leaving the money lost and the dispute unresolved.
A mother and her five year old son on a middle car ride spar over discipline as the boy runs the aisle and taunts passengers. He jokes that his father ran away and that a grandfather was arrested, while a passenger carries a bird cage. The mother scolds, then reads, and the boy finally sleeps before a final quip about grandma.
A Boston Miss Adams who wed De Camp and later died established a long line through Mrs. Hancock in Washington. Daughters married Governors, generals, and engineers, linking Abigail Adams names across generations. Ninety four year old Miss Adams recalls runaways and family ties, as Aldrich is named a cousin. Washington gossip notes truth stranger than fiction.
From the Lewiston Journal a memory of a Bangor school flag presentation with a Maine village company preparing to depart for the state capital. The scene features a pastor’s speech a witty color-bearer and a captain’s faltering pledge ending in a humorous Irish interruption about bringing back the pole.
On a steamer a gentleman simplifies the steam engine for a curious lady. He explains in simple terms that one thing goes up, another comes down, then they let the smoke in to make the wheels turn. The listener admits she never understood it before.
An orator faces ridicule from a burro’s bray before claiming only a jackass would challenge his truth. Bonn and Bond, once divorced, remarried after years apart, with Bond running Crete’s opera house. Also noted are a petrified moccasin found in Pendleton sent to the Smithsonian, a Maine town’s $10 popcorn bill for an estrayed pauper, Paris Exposition inflow estimated at 250000000, and ninety year old twins in Wizow Michigan.
Rheumatic patient from Port Wayne Indiana reports being unable to work until using Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup from Dreier & Bro. The letter asserts a full cure after one bottle and urges readers to ask their druggist. Dnrerer & Bro., Druggists, verify the statement.
Mary, left in charge of Mr. B and Mary the servant while Mrs. B visited relatives, keeps a family secret from her mother. On the father's return the child reveals she shared all the news but not his kiss with Mary, prompting the mother to send Mary away despite the father's attempts to explain.
The passage discusses how nervousness shadows life and describes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a tonic that strengthens nerves, reducing supersensitiveness and chronic weakness. It claims the remedy helps with ailments linked to nervous fatigue and suggests using the bitters for waning appetite, rheumatism, biliousness, and kidney issues.
Spring runoff erodes and dissolves rock from slopes sending solid matter to rivers. Material travels to the sea in solution, returns via plants and animals, and settles as sediment on the ocean floor. The land gradually sinks while surface wear wears it down, driven by water action.
Catarrh cannot be cured with local applications and is described as a blood or constitutional disease. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, said to act on blood and mucus surfaces. It is advertised as a non quack remedy from a reputable physician and sold by druggists for 75 cents. testimonials available on request.
An old veiled woman confronts a stylish young rider over a market basket on a streetcar. The altercation escalates as the elder orders the girl to carry her pail home, exposing tensions between class and public transport norms. The girl leaves after the driver halts the car.
An advertisement touts Dr Fierces Golden Medical Discovery with a $500 refund guarantee if it fails to cure blood and skin ailments including scrofulous afflictions. claims the remedy cures a wide range of conditions and promises reimbursement to buyers if not successful. It also notes a separate offer for an incurable catarrh case.
Oregon described as paradise for farmers with a mild climate and abundant crops including fruit grain and stock. Full information available from the Oregon Immigration Board in Portland. Also promoted are Piso's Cure for Consumption and various tobacco and cigar advertisements.
The Rock Island Route releases Sunshine and Moonlight 1890 a 112 page illustrated volume for boys and girls and adults. It explains sun moon planets comets and lunar and solar movements with clear scientific language and designs in color. Priced at ten cents plus post payment to Chicago address for distribution worldwide.
A Washington Post quotation recounts an amateur baseball game tale where a young Hebrew player dodged between bases. His father, watching intently, shouted to him to "Compromise, Jakey" as the shortstop intervened. The scene captures a spirited, humorous moment from last summer.
An advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as a cure for lingering coughs with a money back guarantee and trial size free. It also reports Dononutt of Wilkesbarre, Pa., gaining fame for punishing a wife-beater by flogging the prisoner at the bar, with a French New York resident praising his action.
A cluster of 19th century ads praises Hibbard's Rheumatic and Liver Pills for safety and efficacy against sick headache constipation and biliousness. It notes Dobbin's Electric Soap from 1863 and mentions comic opera stars retreating from public view. Also advertises Brown's Bronchial Troches at 25 cents and a remark about a man becoming a fence if he rails constantly.
The advertisement recommends Syrup of Figs for travelers both pleasure seekers and businessmen. It claims the remedy acts pleasantly and effectively on kidneys liver and bowels, preventing fevers headaches and other sickness. Available in 50c and 1 bottles from leading druggists.
Seventeen years after Ebbs, described as a crippled pauper, left Mifflintown Pennsylvania and wandered the state a Bellefonte court ruled he is a charge there. The town now owes $1000 to support the old man, tying the town to legal responsibility.
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