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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1885
Page
3
A vivid portrait contrasts Venice’s pedestrian cityscape with its traffic-free lanes and the gondoliers. It extols their fitness, cleanliness, and attire, noting their refined appearance, disciplined daily life, and polished homes, while reflecting on memory triggered by scents of apple blossoms and dusty books.
In a recalled New York Judge piece Clyde recounts Barnum’s quick fix instincts during a Connecticut tour. The circus life is sketched through a teasing scene where a sacred bull dies from cholera and the stock of dromedaries dwindles, while Barnum issues a memo about a horse and camels.
A century ago a shabby French merchant in Philadelphia became famed for amassing wealth from furs, then dedicating his fortune to orphaned boys. Stephen Girard built Girard College with marble halls and a focus on practical trades, educating workingmen rather than gentlemen. The piece praises industrial schools and notable endowments like Bethlehem, Peabody, Cornell, and Johns Hopkins for empowering poor boys through education and skilled labor.
A discussion on the sense of smell notes its health guard role and its power to evoke emotions and memories. It recalls cases of a lawyer drawn to farmyard scents, a writer delighted by ammoniacal lab odors from youth, and a student savoring laboratory smells in later life. A French author cites a young woman who loved old book aromas above perfumes.
The article warns that any hard object dropped in a piano causes rattling and recommends protective covers. Dampness and heat threaten tuning and mechanism, with summer dampness and near heat sources causing issues. Moths damage cloth and felt. camphor can deter them. Regular tuning by a competent tuner is advised, especially in the first year with intervals lengthening over time.
Bill Arp laments how wealth numbs the rich to others pain while war makes soldiers indifferent to corpses. He contrasts compassion for public tragedy with neglect for beggars and notes money dulls empathy. He questions when the world will defend the rights of the poor, expressing wary resignation that both rich and poor die.
A new instrument in the California Secretary of State’s office can compute taxes on any amount from a small sum to a million dollars without forming figures. It enables nearly anyone to perform work that previously required an expert in figures, improving efficiency.
A New York reporter reviews a sharp satirical book alleging physicians misdiagnose malaria to cover ignorance. The narrator traces a patient from travel cures to spring therapies, worsening rheumatism, neuralgia, and costly medical fees, and cites Warner's safe cure as a supposed remedy. The piece echoes skepticism toward medical authority and notes public figures hinted in the tale.
A reflective analysis contrasts Mexican views of Americans with admiration for foreigners like the French and British. It explains Yankee arrogance, claims Mexicans regard the United States with superior instincts yet fear future loss of land, and notes treatment of life and death themes through varied anecdotes.
The text paints a vivid landscape along the Baltic’s southern shore. It highlights vast grain farms with rolling hills, distant horizons, dark tree clumps marking farmhouses, tall windmills, a straight chaussee road, bordered by mountain ash and birch. It notes abundant roadside wild flowers and large brick barns signaling harvest wealth.
In Paris the great powers and Turkey agreed to abolish privateering and protect neutral commerce. The United States refused to accept the rule without guaranteeing private property at sea except contraband. During the Civil War the U S offered to join without its prior condition, but separate conventions failed. No letters of marque were issued by the U S during the war though authorized by Congress.
The article notes a rising reluctance among young men to marry, calling it a contagious epidemic spreading nationwide except in farming regions. It cites outnumbered men in some areas and a desire to marry rich women or to amass wealth beforehand, viewing the trend as unhappy and demoralizing.
A Boston medical journal urges mothers to beware medicines with morphin and opium given for colds and coughs. Otto Grothe of Brooklyn certifies a new vegetable Red Star Cough Cure as a safe alternative. An elderly North Scotland woman recalls Byron visiting Glamis Castle in his youthful days.
A mixed passage promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for travelers and mariners facing unfamiliar climates and digestive issues, asserting preventive and curative effects for constipation biliousness malaria and indigestion. It contrasts safe preparation with sewer engineering dicta and ends with a joke about the jackass and ears from the New Orleans Picayune.
An old advertisement claims Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription can restore health to worn and ailing women, with a reduced price of one dollar. It also touts Dr Pierce’s Compound Extract of Smart Weed for colds fevers cramps and dysentery at fifty cents, ending with a quip about curtain lectures.
Visit or serve New York City and stay at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot.600 elegant rooms cost one million dollars, later offered at $1 daily with European plan Elevator and restaurant. Horse cabs and elevated railroad access to all depots. Families can live better for less at the Grand Union than at other first-class hotels. Carr may kill a cat, but a boot-jack sent with precision is faster.
Chicago Inter Ocean reports radical interior remodeling at McVickers Theater making it a model for patron comfort and safety. Upgraded gallery, seating, ventilation, and water access. seven aisles each with exits, twenty three egress points, and fireproofing. All lighting electric. boilers moved across alley. stage and audience separated by a fire wall. invitations extended for outside visitors to inspect.
An advertisement promotes the Gault House at Clinton and Madison in Chicago offering first class accommodations for 32 and 2.50 per day. The corner hotel is described as central, near Union Depot with elevator and upscale appointments, run by Horr and Garis. Also contains medical product blurbs for catarrh and digestion.
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