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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1893
Page
3
An old notice warns against quacks and imitators while urging use of genuine Brown's Broxenial TracHEs for throat disease and coughs. It condemns self treatment for backache and rheumatism until a doctor is called, saving on medical bills and debt.
Six points praise Doctor Pierce's Pellets as small sugar coated granules easy for children to take with no griping. They claim lasting effects and no after reaction while cleansing or regulating the system. Guaranteed satisfaction or money back and sold fresh in glass jars amid claims of curing constipation indigestion bilious attacks and liver stomach and bowel derangements.
A nuisance inspector in a London suburb uncovers a cellar mushroom bed beneath living rooms and a plan to grow vegetables in cellars. The piece warns of pests from animal tactics in homes and describes ostrich nesting, eggs called haucho, and dramatic fights over brood after hatch. It notes how some keep donkeys birds and rabbits in back rooms, stressing sanitary knowledge.
The piece recounts cases of literary piracy by Henry Mackenzie’s era and Mme de Genlis, noting forged copies and plagiarized works. It also narrates M Thouar’s encounter with hostile Indians in South America, detailing a sentry, a moving tree decoy, and a Toba’s leg wound after a gunfire surprise.
The text extols self-preservation against disease and praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a prudent medicinal safeguard. It claims protection against kidney and bladder diseases, liver issues, constipation, dyspepsia, malaria, rheumatism, and nervousness, urging early and persistent use for best results.
The article details extensive steam plow operations in California with five gangs of four plows, twenty plows total, each ten inches wide and five inches deep. Gangs work continuously day and night, with multiple crew roles and on-the-move fuel, water, and seed during plowing, harrowing, and seeding in a single operation.
Advertisement warns that baking powders marketed with a gift or at half the cost of Royal are usually alum based and dangerous to health. It notes every can of Royal Baking Powder contains a ticket offering a free copy of The Royal Baker and Pastry Cook with 1000 practical recipes.
A fragment from an old era recounts baby prodigy Christian Henry Heinecken born in 1721 in Lubeck who supposedly knew languages and world history by age four, with later notes on widows and household remedies. It blends historic lore with sensational claims and includes unrelated anecdotes about potatoes and tea substitutes.
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