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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1886
Page
3
A Boston Times style piece ridicules a renewed fad for tight lacings as foolish vanity and diseased imagination. It argues such dress harms health and appeal, noting men’s mixed reactions and the impracticality of the extreme silhouette while urging women to avoid destructive trends.
John declines a theater night for a home concern as the housekeeper suspects dogs may have measles or mumps. The narrator notes it would be sacrilegious to attend while Fido possibly nears death.
A New York Herald note extols simple walking as medicine for body and mind. It urges avoiding chairs, breathing air, and stretching to invigorate organs, improve posture, and lift spirits, warning against excess comfort. Also reports Van Dieman's Bay tin exports rising from 35000 to about 1.5 million dollars in four years, with a tin mountain on the west coast yielding rich seams and large specimens. A separate adage claims a verse about truth, innocence, and love as a fine adornment for a man.
Editor Lassing lauds the human body as a vast chemical laboratory and describes the blood purification process. He highlights kidneys as the key organs and promotes Warner's Safe Cure as a universal remedy, urging readers to heed medical counsel and pursue health.
A 19th century summary notes from the English Privy Council report that 3,672 animals were lost or fatally injured while transported from Canada and the United States to English ports in 1885, with thousands more kept alive but distressed during voyage. The piece ends with a joke about lawyers and unprofessional conduct in Toledo.
A Life cartoon captions a joke about a cold remedy with Bert joking that a fresh one cured it. In a separate courtroom moment, a Leadville lawyer cross examining a woman on the stand she proclaims I am a lady by thunder don t you forget it, tall tale style.
Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot advertises 613 rooms fitted at a cost of one million dollars. It offers baggage and expressage services and $3 carriage hire. The establishment features an elevator and restaurant with a European pig menu, with horse cars, stores, and elevated rail access to all depots. It claims families can live better for less money than at any other first-class hotel in the city.
The Inter Ocean article explains deaf mute instruction, starting with sign and word methods, linking objects with printed names, then building sentences. It covers sign alphabets, spelling, and progression from objects to properties, numerals, verbs, adjectives, directions, and simple tenses.
An article cites that most nervous conditions originate from indigestion and thinness, with symptoms like anxiety and tremulous hands. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a soothing, digestive regulator that enriches blood, helps biliousness, headaches, and bowel regulation, and aids sleep when taken before bed.
Excerpts recount generals McClellan and Lee sharing mutual respect from Mexican War days to the Peninsula campaign. Both cautious, they weighed strength and plans, while awaiting outcomes of the Army of the Potomac after Bull Run. Also notes St Jacobs Oil award and a wedding money anecdote.
Distrust treacherous in its workings poisons judgment and fuels suspicion. As doubt grows thoughts wander without facts, transforming innocence into imagined guilt and turning every action into judgment colored by jealousy and apprehension.
Rochester New York Rural Home Co promotes a cloth bound library deal with 150 titles and a weekly 8 page paper. For $1 subscription plus $0.15, receive any single book plus the paper for one year post free. Includes works on law, medicine, farming, history and more. References Hon. C R Parsons mayor of Rochester. Samples 2c.
A San Francisco Chronicle report recounts a college duel mock event where pistols were unloaded. One duelist fired accidentally, then the other remained calm and aimed as seconds urged negotiation. Bids escalated to $1000 before the pistol was finally dropped.
An odd collection of health pitches touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for liver and blood health, AYEN’s Ague Cure, and Dr WM Halls Balsam for the lungs. Advertisers claim cures for back pain, boils, skin eruptions, and weakness, with testimonials and a bold offer from Vourah Belts for nervous debility and vitality, all promising healing without modern medical scrutiny.
An 19th century styled health remedy claim touts Wells Health Renewer curing numerous ailments from dyspepsia to nervous debility. The text also promotes rates at the Gault House Chicago near Clinton and Madison, operated by Oyt & Gates, with mention of proximity to Union Depot and Wakevator.
A discouraged woman audience is urged to try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for chronic female weakness. It is extolled as a tonic and energizer surpassing others, with praise from thousands of women who testify. All druggists carry the remedy.
An old advertisement touts Lyon's Heel Stiffeners as instant relief for toothache and foot discomfort. It claims yearly savings on boots and shoes with a small 25 cent price for the device.
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