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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1883
Page
3
A child acquires possession of a hearth brush and learns to unscrew and re screw the handle with patient effort. He starts wrong ends, corrects them, and repeats the action, showing persistent focus and eventual ease. The observer notes this as animal intelligence evidencing intrinsic drive to achieve a task.
A Mother’s exchange reveals that quarrels among children reflect immature minds and risk the family’s harmony. Quarreling is common, vulgar, and the sign of the common run of mortals, while peace and mutual regard mark the superior class according to Youth's Companion.
Dr Prestel findings connect climate disease to winds observed at a location and assert the regional climate is defined by wind nature. Weather and winds align by month with illness influenced by the prior month. Prolonged calm or light breeze is worst for climates with malaria or yellow fever outbreaks.
An elderly man once living in Alder Gulch 1864 65 is remembered as never having teeth. Born Joseph Bearclaw he, at age 60, had never worn teeth. An Eastern paper noted a Georgia boy of ten who also lacks teeth showing no future change.
The snippet notes a man named Bearclaw from Laois who returned to Montana in 1865 or 1866. It mentions nature denying him teeth and giving him long fingernails and toenails nearly as hard as bone, an eighth of an inch thick. It is unclear whether Bearclaw was his real name or a nickname.
The piece describes gut string production for violins guitars and banjos from animal entrails. It covers selection processing including splitting rolling twisting bleaching softening and final finishing taking about ten to eleven days per string and yielding long seventy two inch lengths arranged in bundles of thirty strings.
Frank H. H. Cushing recounts Zuni youths catching a boar in a playful trial of skill. A leader directs four or five companions using a lasso to trap the animal, cover its eyes, and smother its cries. The hog is repeatedly goaded, tethered, and dragged, ending with the weary, dead animal as dusk falls.
A Spanish minister’s sleep tactic aside, the tale recalls William Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle counseling in bed. Pitt, ill with gout, lay under blankets while Newcastle warmed at the other end. Disturbance from mutiny spurred Pitt to command, pen in hand, then he slept again as officers readied action.
A Boston judge and his wife spar over social rank as they move in America’s elite, arguing that a family line from a shoemaker is more prestigious than one from a horse-shoer. The Waterbury Conn. American notes the anecdote as a comment on class notions.
The Freie Presse of San Antonio Texas describes a ant species that stores honey in a pea sized pouch on its body. When the pouch fills these ants march into their subterranean chambers and deposit the honey within their cells.
Dr Henry MacCormac of Belfast argues against the notion that humans lack instinct for swimming. He claims that anyone can tread water and stay afloat if they imitate animals, walking on the water rather than panicking, since humans can be taught by nature to preserve themselves without prior instruction.
A mixed excerpt contrasts opium’s harms in China with satirical verses. It cites population decline, impaired fecundity, and degeneration among Page’s opium users, then shifts to humorous quips about St Jacobs Oil and a Missouri penitentiary governor describing whippings, reflecting a broad snapshot of contemporary concerns and curiosities.
Impure blood and weak organs are named as endurance enemies. Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla is promoted as a blood purifier that strengthens lungs kidneys nerves and digestion. The advertisement claims it boosts overall health and endurance and urges readers to ask their druggist for it.
Immigrants pour into Russia as the population rises due to yearly net inflows of about 250000 more entrants than departures. Native residents complain of German settlers competing for land and industry as proposals arise to curb the foreign appropriation of Russian soil.
An old advertisement page touts Brown's Iron Bitters and various tonics for health, promising relief from debility, nerve symptoms, and blood poisons. It cites testimonials and medical endorsements, notes German Hop Bitters as a top remedy, and urges purchases from druggists.
Corns pain relief claims spread by Pam Nam’s Painness Corn Extractor sold widely with wholesale support from Lord, Stoutenburgh & Co. in Chicago. Other ads tout iron tonics, electric belts, and a variety of patent medicines, urging readers to try trials and trust the familiar names of Caswell, Hazanp & Co. and Lyon's metallic heel stiffeners.
A compact observation notes that certain vegetables exert a strong cleansing effect on the blood by improving nutrition, relieving strain on the body, and drawing poisons from polluted parts, with a simple natural action that rapidly purifies the blood.
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