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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1892
Page
4
Local notices report candidates for various offices including JOURN and WALZ while listing county tax cuts and a dry summer forecast. River levels fluctuated with rising tides and hay harvesting contests drew small crowds. A Democratic candidate withdrew, a patent information pamphlet is offered, and a local tonic advert features a Chill Cere product.
Personal items list residents visiting relatives and returning home from trips. Mentions include J P Boren crippled by a fall, T W Wilson attending the American Medical Association meeting in Detroit, Mrs Adler visiting daughter in Evansville, and numerous shorter notes on travels, visits, and local arrivals from Mt Vernon Evansville and Lafayette with names like John Wardelmann Mary, Miss Maggie Schlotter Minnie Chaftin, Charley Edmonds, Lee Hofreiter Ila Stewart, John Kellar, Prof C L Pulliam, D D Owen, and others.
Ex Memorea resolutions note the death of Bro Annam M Wattson in May 1892. Whitson joined New Harmony Lodge 87 April 25 1866 and was a member for 26 years. Lodge expresses profound sympathy to the bereaved family in the solemn loss.
A guaranteed safe plan offers relief for throat lung and chest ailments. Dr King s New Discovery is marketed as effective for consumption bronchitis asthma and whooping cough. Trial bottles are available at Wilmoth Wilhelm Co. drug store.
The Regular Baptists will dedicate their new church building at Griffin next Sunday, June 12. All are invited to attend. Robertson and Jones of Jonesboro, Ark publish an ad for a remedy: Certain Chill Cure with a no cure, no pay offer sold by Wilmoth Wilhelm & Co.
James Boren fell from a scaffold on a roof in the eastern town part last Saturday. He struck his head but regained consciousness after being taken home on East Street. Doctors reported no bones broken though the stunning impact will keep him bedbound for several days.
Mt Vernon Lud area supplier Kuck Gonxprauan & Co advertises threshing machines of 10 12 or 1 horsepower plain or traction engine models. They claim self manufactured engines and car-load purchases allow low prices with no agents, offering big savings to buyers.
Widworth Wilhelm & Co Druggists announce King’s New Discovery for consumption and other remedies. They guarantee satisfaction and offer refunds if results fail, highlighting the remedies’ popularity as earned by merit.
A valuable device for uncoupling the corn table has been perfected by two Manosae mill employees, Charley Moore who furnished the plans and Jim Baldwin who did the iron bolt and silver plate work. No patent will be applied for as the inventors wish the labor-saving apparatus to be free to all. Interested parties are urged to come and see it in full operation today.
An old patent medicine advertisement claims the salve cures cuts bruises sores ulcers fever sores tetter chilblains corns and piles with guaranteed satisfaction or money back. Sold for 25 cents per box by Winnemore Winnesa & Co.
The notice lists personal property assessments for New Harmony and Harmony Township with totals and dog counts, reports Black Township and Mt. Vernon city figures, and includes a string of local ads for Wilmoth Wilhelm & Co and Henry Brown’s clothing and paint products. It also mentions political commentary about Blaine and various sale items such as wallpaper, clothing, and accessories.
Four county tickets compete with Democratic Republican Prohibition and PF lines. Farmersville saw the Republican farmers' wing nominate a straight local ticket. Mt. Vernon rivals failed to control the meeting. J. Cox and Henry Linn garner endorsements for legislative and treasurer posts. John H. Montgomery leads for sheriff and Andrew Martin for commissioner.
A forthcoming entertainment is planned at Thrall Opera Home with Mr and Mrs Parry Robinson and Miss Fannie Col jen among the performers assisted by amateurs. The exact date and play titles will be announced next week.
In Louisville Kentucky experts at the Senther Medical Institute prepare a highly trusted remedy. Marketed as scientific and effective for coughs colds whooping cough and diphtheria with claims of superiority among similar preparations.
A Wadesville man Chastroclmeon suffered a fractured skull after a falling lamb while splitting heiseas in the woods. Reports say he is expected to recover. Campweth receives a shipment of paints and painters materials at its new drug store next to Alotta duy goods establishment. A Wednesday mad-dow scare frightened several children. the dow was shot. Lenny Brown advertises neckwear. Blaine of Maine is mentioned in a fragment. Vik rockeries were removed from the schoolyard. Harison chorus Blaine is noted in a stray line.
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