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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1888
Page
3
A humorous essay extols tobacco as soothing for the tired, irritable man and his family. It argues women exaggerate tobacco’s harms yet favor the smoker, detailing how pipes and cigars shape moods, calm anger, ease sorrow, and foster friendship. The piece contrasts smokers with non-smokers and ends with a vivid exotic scene and a guest writer Fannie B. Ward’s reflection on a courtyard and garden setting.
A vivid description of a La Calle del Flamingo casa used as a temporary seating and sleeping area. The stone structure features a twenty five foot front, a large central sala, a nearly square parlor, and a twenty foot vaulted ceiling with blue beams and whitewashed walls. wooden knobs along beams hold Panama grass hammocks serving as chairs sofas and beds. The narrator notes initial awkwardness climbing in and out of hammocks.
The Philadelphia Times describes photography from collodion coating to nitrate of silver, printing on albumen paper, and the necessary darkroom steps. It notes the negative to paper printing, washing, gold chloride dip, and final mounting, plus amateur appeal and portable detectives cameras.
Dr J J Leiser proposes that irregular breathing on ships disrupts blood oxygen, poisoning the brain temporarily. He suggests steady, full breaths at about twenty per minute, likening it to playing music, supported by tests from a British Medical Journal correspondence with Stockman and Prentice from a voyage aboard the Etruria.
A collage of dialogue about Mr Tanker and polite farewells, a note on sending him away. A report recalls attempts to transport fish alive from Paris to Chili, noting losses but sustenance for carp and eels. A writer praises nightly dews as blessings amid hard times.
Medical Summary recounts a practice for cinder in the eye urged by a doctor. The narrator recalls an engineer advising to rub the other eye instead of the injured one, claiming it will expel the irritant in minutes. The method has worked repeatedly, with rare exceptions requiring surgery.
A discussion on the duty to aid the sick and impoverished, citing a typhus outbreak in Edinburg where a widowed mother toiling to feed her three children dies after failing to receive help, and Carlyle's moral critique of communal neglect. It argues that neglect of slums and municipal cleanliness risks a devastating epidemic.
A common sense remedy promises cure without interrupting work. Allcock's Ponhovs PuAs-TEKS plasters are claimed to be entirely botanical, harmless, and unaffected by weather. They urge demand for the genuine product and warn against substitutes or imitators.
Dr. W J Baker reports bicarbonate of soda curative in many tonsillitis cases. Patients who could not swallow liquids gain relief within days. Apply powder to moist fingertip and rub over tonsils every five minutes for thirty minutes, then hourly for the remainder of the day.
In a playful Tid-Lits exchange Aunt Priscilla pokes fun at Laura for laziness and lack of reading. Laura laments discouragement after requesting a fencing handbook and receiving a comic misprint titled Wire Barking for the Farm from the book clerk.
A satirical line contrasts two men while an English paper suggests table centerpieces with ferns ivy and flowers for decor. It warns about long quotes on upholstery and gifts with gilded baskets. It notes Lord Ly xpurrsr born in Boston 1772 died in England 1863 and remarks North Carolina convicts work on plantations and railroads.
The Detroit Free Press argues that girls who pursue marriage by questionable means abandon modesty and invite men's scorn. It condemns flirtatious talk, dress, and behavior as liberating yet enslaving, warning that such conduct appeals to baser men but fails to win worthy husbands.
A medicinal tonic like Hostetter's Stomach Bitters calms the nervous system and strengthens the stomach, enabling the body to resist daily health subversives such as malaria. It claims to prevent rheumatism and kidney troubles and to provide broad protective benefits supported by professional evidence.
During the last Presidential crisis in France a Rennes correspondent wrote to his newspaper while the political police opened letters. He then labeled letters Inclosure of 100 francs to shield privacy. A postal order for 100 francs arrived inside unbroken seals, fooling officers who substituted their own envelope to dodge inquiry.
The passage portrays Uncle Rastus joking with his employer a law yer about carrying coal. A humorous dialect exchange shows a staged misunderstanding of legal work and tasks within the office.
A composite, fragmented ad-like passage extols Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as superior laxatives, sugar-coated granules, vegetable and harmless for constipation and liver bowels ailments. It also touts Scott's Emulsion for tuberculosis and throat diseases, and includes diverse testimonials and fashion notes about beverages and shoes.
Cincinnati hosts a major Centennial Exposition as the city becomes the center of celebrations for Northwest Territory pioneers and their descendants. New permanent and temporary buildings rise as crowds flood in for a hundred days of demonstrations and displays.
A provisional Chicago communication details three resuscitation cases using subcutaneous nitroglycerine. In one case a presumed drowning victim revived within three minutes after four minims were injected over the stomach, with atropine then restoring warmth and respiration, leading to full recovery. The other cases are described as equally striking.
A vivid advertorial piece urges a renowned citizen to seek Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for early consumption symptoms including appetite loss night sweats and coughing. It warns delay risks death and promotes Sage's Catarrh Remedy Castor oil and Wells invisible velvet cream with contact for E S Wells Jersey City.
It cannot truthfully be denied that the Burlington Route, C B and Q HK B, is doing extensive business. From June 16 to 19, during National Republican Convention excursion rates, over 12,000 strangers came to Chicago over the Burlington, exclusive of suburban passengers. In live stock receipts, Union Stock Yards report Burlington far in the lead with an average of 26,140 cars in the first six months of 1886, 1887, and 1888, and 24,425 cars for the first half of 1868, about 24 percent below the later figure. Of the total 102,413 cars brought to yards in the last half year, Burlington exceeded all others by more than six percent.
A notice quotes Mrs A offering a position for a nurse girl. The nurse demands payment of £2 per week and the use of laudanum, with or without, as part of the terms cited by Harvard Lanpoon.
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