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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1887
Page
3
A historian of contortion describes how performers begin as tumblers, train for years, and endure injuries as their bodies stiffen. The piece explains the hard path to becoming a contortionist and the limited, aging window for such a demanding stage life.
In the Boston Transcript excerpt Mrs Fogg guides her husband through buying a suit. The couple visits a store where the indifferent salesman flatly addresses Mrs Fogg while Fogg shows sour reluctance. She samples fabrics, questions color fastness, washability, and suitability, then plans to consult friends before returning.
The Victims of religious persecution have been many since his day and we undervalue the first heathen philosopher who sealed his evidence to goodness with his blood. His life and death form one of the most consistent records in profane history, akin to Sir Thomas More. Socrates, like More, might have escaped extreme persecution.
In a Philadelphia North American excerpt, Mr. Bowser urges Eliza the kitchen maid to sing piano and sketch, arguing noblesse and moral equality. Mrs. Bowser questions the plan as tension rises over her meals and status.
In Mrs. Grey's boudoir the group debated whether couples with children are happier than those without. Views split. some praise orderly, well raised children, others note conflicts with noisy, ill behaved offspring. A shrewd notion: upbringing largely shapes harmony. Truth gossip context.
A London coffee house and a market town in Rutlandshire display witty notices on shutters and signs. The items include medical for sick dogs, birds to board, foot and hand treatments, straightening hunchbacks, hiring babies, false wages, painted eyes, and a shanty offering meals like a mother’s.
An observant man notes Chicago businessmen are forced to transact quickly during the day and wonder why they rise early. The reply reveals they do wake early but waste time waiting in restaurants for meals.
The passage argues that deeper conceptions of justice reveal itself through acts of gratitude and generosity. It asserts that a poor man showing gratitude indicates a readiness for generosity that would persist if he were wealthy.
A Philadelphia Press view argues unemployed women persist despite new jobs in telegraphy and clerking. It urges shifting more women into domestic service, condemns cramped servant housing, and calls women to improve working conditions by better treating servants and upgrading living quarters.
A nurse tells a nightmarish story about a boy named Herbert and a petrifying beast to scare a five year old into sleep. The tale features fire eyed creature with long teeth, savage animals, and parents harmed, delivered in a grim warning voice.
The piece touts Moxie as a harmless yet powerful cure all capable of replacing liquor and tonics. It claims to ease nervous exhaustion in women and acts like a food without a crash. Druggists nationwide reportedly stock and sell it widely.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt records a tense exchange as a stranger tried to insult a proprietor's family in a Michigan Avenue shop. The proprietor defends his kin, leading to threats of violence before the stranger is told to leave. An unrelated ad extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as immunity against malaria and general health booster.
The Chicago Herald notes Illinois repeatedly proposed its own for the Presidency. In 1856, 1860, 1864, 1880, 1884 Illinois backed Lincoln, Grant, Logan, and Washburne as party leaders. The piece praises Illinois role and recalls near-unanimous support under Logan and Cullom. A second brief item mentions Sir Roger Trennorne praising St Jacobs Oil for rheumatic cure.
Testimony on steam engine work notes firing as skilled labor, needing steady coal feed and tight fuel placement to keep steam up. A veteran fireman reflects on six years of firing without a guaranteed locomotive assignment despite prior experience.
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