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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1883
Page
3
A Montana letter recounts diving down into darkness and the marvels of the ocean. It describes sensory details of air pressure, changing light, and surreal underwater scenery, including ships wrecks, emeralds, and coral, with encounters by sharks and cuttlefish and a humorous anecdote about a crowbar and a sleeping giant cuttlefish.
In crowded Tokyo districts blind sham pooers earn a living by performing massage and shampooing on passersby. The practice provides healthful exercise and profit, with practitioners shown to possess notable anatomical knowledge and skill in locating pain and guiding treatment.
Fragmented OCR recounts a strange tale of grass transforming into snakes in a harsh landscape. The piece references travel through a badlands area, a dry period, a ravine with scarce water, and a discovery beneath stone suggesting hidden water sources.
The National Exposition of Railway Appliances in Chicago extends to June 28 in the Exposition Building covering eleven acres. It showcases locomotives, cars, machinery, fuels, oils, and office furnishings, with a vast display from fifty years of railway innovation. Aimed at the public, it highlights affordable rates and emphasizes the broad economic significance beyond railway men.
A colored worker describes an Odd Fellows badge and a misunderstanding about affiliation with white members. He explains that they do not affiliate but aid each other, recounting a distress signal in a saloon and a bung starter thrown at him, which shows mutual help without formal unity.
An ox hiding behind a saloon counter confronts the proprietor who tries to drink. The beast thwarts him, offering a horn as a tool to open a trap door, ending with a moral about opposing a strong bull movement alone. Narration imitates a New York World moral cartoon.
A Georgia custom sees dogs brought into worship with believers. In Macon a bulldog slept at a mistress’s feet while the sermon began and the dog threatened to leap toward the minister before being calmed. In Albany a pointer dozed near its owner as a preacher spoke.
A modern science argument links consumption to blood and kidney liver health. Dr Felix Oswald argues consumption is a blood disease caused by poisoned blood from diseased kidneys or liver, and Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure is promoted as the remedy. A Buffalo foreman testimonial supports improved health after using the cure.
A vivid fishing scene from Forest and Stream describes a three hour trip on Maxincuckee with heavy black bass and wall-eyed pike. A ten-pound lasson fights the boat in a fierce struggle against wind rain and waves before Charles nets the quarry from a sunken tree.
A fragment notes the Mont Viso tunnel as possibly the Alps oldest, driven under Margrave Louis II in 1472 1480. It details cost about 12000 florins, height six and a half feet, width eight feet, and length about 250 feet. Also cites 1882 US farm animal totals and a medical testimonial to Brown's Iron Bitters.
A collage of 19th century health ads touts German Hop Bitters and other tonics for dyspepsia, malaria, and debility. It includes testimonials, pricing notes, and promotions from druggists and manufacturers, plus gimmicks like Electro-Voltaic belts and Rough on Rats. The piece mocks medical fads while cataloging popular remedies and household ailments.
Advert describes Hood's Sarsaparilla easing lingering illnesses in children after measles scarlet fever and vaccination. Seven Burne children in Middleboro survived diphtheria with ulcers and dropsical effusions healed after five bottles. A Chicago boy lingering ear infection and a Warren Massachusetts case of sores post vaccination also cured. Sold by Druggists at $1, six for 65 cents.
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