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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1882
Page
4
A New York music teacher recounts a married woman who secretly studied singing to delight her husband. Her weekly lessons strengthened her voice, and a visit to Saratoga revealed the couple’s rekindled affection after the husband fell for his wife’s singing all over again.
A Contemporary Review writer notes that most leading New York figures and many Boston professionals were born in the country and foreign to the city. Country upbringing fosters energy, industry, and economy, supplying fresh blood cities need for growth and success.
A Cherokee tale recounts a captured chief doomed to death who falls ill in a warrior’s cabin. His nurse, a dark faced maiden, loves him and urges escape to save his life. She consents, but homesickness chastens their flight, ending their bold plan in sorrow.
In Bock's account of Dayaks the fierce head hunting exists alongside tender village life. Warfare fuels marriages and rites, yet women work hard and the sick are cared for. The Orang Buhik and Trings stand out among tribes for ferocity and cannibal practices. Pomali avoidance and leaf signs mark crops and misfortune.
A correspondent describes wild turkey abundance along the Blue Mountains border in Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. Hunters corning clearings to lure birds, selecting ground and air shots, using large bolstered powder charges, and relying on keen senses of turkeys to avoid flushes. The piece notes trapping by locals, predator effects, and markets sending birds to New York and Philadelphia, with sport subsiding as seasons change and extinction looms.
A fragment from the Newark Sunday Call cites cures from St. Jacobs Oil by a Louisville Courier Journal reader’s family. It then mentions Brown county’s early Methodist mission led by Rev. E. P. Farmer, who after a year reported under a hundred members. A Paris Biological Society note defines death from alcoholism as one part alcohol per 100 parts blood, explaining severe intoxication.
Foretelling that a foul stomach dulls the brain and heightens life’s anxieties, the ad extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the swift cure. It claims the bitters purge morbid humors, restore stomach vigor, regulate the liver, steady nerves, and clear mental fog. It urges regular use through the season for indigestion, bilious headaches, bowel irregularity, and stomach sickness.
A factory owner bemoans college education after sending his son to run the plant. The young manager reportedly shipped 50,000 of the firm’s patent snow shovels to South America, provoking the father’s frustration during a vacation.
A Boston Transcript item cautions that spring and summer greens commonly upset the stomach and trigger cramps diarrhea and dysentery. It urges cautious eating and notes Perry Davis Pain Killer as a remedy sold by druggists. The piece ends with a quip about a rich broker who claims poverty in town.
A letter from Rev Isaac N AraustTin of Buffalo N Y describes his 18 year old daughter treated with Golden Medical Discovery for presumed consumption and eventual recovery. The note mentions the product is sold by druggists and includes a humorous anecdote about a head waiter in a barber shop.
A reader recalls a two month Hop Bitters cure for his wife doctoring and ill health, praising the remedy as effective for eighteen months. The note is followed by a light exchange about gossip at a club and a Paris paper recounting a public slapped-face episode.
A jumble of old advertisements and quips reviews various products. Mrs J C Henderson of Cleveland credits two pills daily of Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Polleta for curing sick headache. A polka night joke about asking to be taken for better or worse. A warning to look well to the name on German Hop Bitters with a blown-in word German. A note on counterfeit coins and a pricey European tour. A boast of Great German Hop Bitters curing dyspepsia and headaches. A new anti burglary machine that fires a cannon wakes the family and guards the corner.
A neighbor refuses to rent next to a young family, instead keeping the house for four maids who keep peacocks dogs and birds for company. A jumble of odd ephemera urges stamps for pamphlets and features flirtatious quips about love and wit amid garbled product names and misprints.
A Brooklyn Eagle notice recounts a remarkable cure of severe rheumatism near Newark, New Jersey. Mr W A Davenport of Butler Pitken Co in New York recounts how St Jacobs Oil aided the patient just as hospital care loomed. The tale includes a Cleveland Practical Farmer report and a digressive anecdote about loans and quack medicines.
An advertisement extols Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as a cure all for malarial fevers and general weakness, claiming it strengthens liver and kidneys, invigorates the body, and boosts vitality. It includes patient testimonials, product ingredients, and appeals to physicians to endorse the remedy.
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