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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1882
Page
3
A Brooklyn boy recalls a comic misadventure with a pistol, a minister, and a mischievous parade of family chaos. He contrasts bread and water punishment with an insistence on practicing the umpah as a brass band plays outside.
A Europe aware of gender roles contrasts: in Paris the woman leads bargains and orders, while in England a householder keeps meticulous accounts and teaches daughters bookkeeping. The piece highlights economy, work, and household duties as defining national traits behind a small island sustaining 20 million Englishmen.
A historical note advising writers to avoid italics and minimize punctuation. It argues italics signal clumsy writing, urges readers to parse sentences without heavy emphasis, and warns against excessive punctuation while stressing proper adverbial placement.
A fragment from a 19th century quote arguing punctuation misuses and excess. It condemns semicolons and commas as signs of weak writing while suggesting dashes. The passage reflects editorial attitudes about language and style.
At a Company A reunion, Lt Henry Starkey recalls a bold wartime order to swing right and rest behind a stone wall. While he slept, veterans supposedly left their muskets and went blackberrying, leaving the enemy near. Starkey contrasts seasoned soldiers with jittery green recruits in Virginia.
Deacon Wilder explains to Deacon Taylor that timely Hop Bitters kept his family free from illness, avoiding doctors and enabling work. He claims three dollars' worth lasted a season and suggests others could save on medical costs. Taylor vows to use the medicine.
A correspondent in New York recreates a visit to Ottoman tombs describing nursemaids who feed royal babies, with a grim note on the seven year rule and infant deaths to limit succession. A Danish king is praised for ordering Dr Bull's Cough Syrup to ease guards from coal and coughs.
A Cornish village scene describes Saltash perched on the west bank with hillside streets, gray macadam lanes, and brick stone cottages. The church, seven centuries old, shows economical restorations using rubble and gargoyles. Locals are hardy seafaring folk, with strong builds and modest virtue, while a neighbor mocks a drunkard remark from a yard side anecdote.
A historical reflection on unseen hardship among the needy, noting many suffer daily in silence. It highlights women in city homes earning by needlework, enduring low wages, pride, and the quiet demand for humane help given kindly without ostentation to brighten their dark hours.
A fablelike meditation on the dangers of an unruly tongue. Mount Taurus cranes arm themselves with stones to silence chatter, as eagles prey on cranes that cackle. The piece urges readers to bridle speech through watchfulness and prayer. It echoes Psalmist admonitions to guard one’s way and tongue.
A New York paper mocks Patti as fat dumpy lame and aged noting her teeth eyes and mouth but conceding the audience will pay top prices to hear her sing. The piece argues that voice justifies fame and audience appeal over appearance and charm.
A letter from Hex Wiatima of Boston urges acceptance of gratitude for a claimed two year fever cure by the Golden Medical Discovery, addressed to Buffalo, Massachusetts. The missive praises the remedy and extends thanks to the unnamed recipient.
An advertisement touts Dr Prence's Favorite Prescription as a potent specific rather than a cure all for chronic weaknesses in women. It notes Dr Pierce's pamphlet on Diseases Peculiar to Women as a related item, priced at three stamps, and directs readers to World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York for information.
A Boston man earns the title by politely excusing a collision in a crowded street. He speeds away, apologizing if he caused the scrape, while a second man looks angry. The piece mocks social bustle and features an aside about Pellets liver pills and a dusty traveller.
A Rochester reader recalls personal healing from Hop Bitters curing ague, biliousness, and kidney complaints in family use. The note warns readers not to undervalue the tonic and mentions bridal fashion trends and diamonds seen at fashionable hotels.
An eclectic clipping mocks patent medicines and social anecdotes, noting Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure and Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as remedies. It recounts a Yankee woman who married a Chinese laundryman and a barber’s shop pigtail incident, alongside a circus proprietor missing a lynx.
An advertisement spread offers the Voltaic Belt Co's Electro-Voltaic Belts on thirty day trial for nervous debility and related troubles from Marshall Michigan. It also promotes Dr Winener's Teething Syrup for infant ailments, Musxiwax's Pepronizep beer for debility, Hilert's Daylight Liver Pills, Canull Lyne hair remedy, Muaptactic Insoles, Frazer Axle Grease, and Uncle Sam's Nerve and Bone Liniment with standard druggist distribution.
Somerville man William J. Coughlin recounts a 1876 lung illness with a hole in the lung later treated by Dr William Hall's Balsam. He credits the medicine with recovery after hospital confinement and years of poor health, urging others with consumptive symptoms to try the remedy.
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