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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1882
Page
3
A new musical instrument named the angelico uses fifty crystal pieces and a piano length keyboard to produce half tones with two hammers. Cervivexorp and celluloid printing advances are described, followed by notes on Bush men artistry, geographic overviews, and boiling point changes with altitude.
The Boston Post notes rising quality of American draft horses and foreign demand. American breeders crossed native mares with Normandy and Scottish stock, creating a strong new horse breed. EU buyers, including the French army, seek top bloodlines, depleting older countries’ stocks as American imports spread nationwide. Salvini opines on Lady Macbeth sleepwalking scene, debating authorship shift from Macbeth to Lady Macbeth and the dramatic implications for the play’s climax.
Fragmentary report describes a man seen on the street jostling a lady or shoving her aside at a theater causing a lady to sit mortified between acts. The passage mentions graduation of others and achaotic scene.
A fragment depicts a man in a crowd boasting of sexual conquests and vulgar behavior. The text criticizes his coarse talk, conceit, lack of manliness, and disrespect toward women, labeling him as behaving like a hog and lacking proper place.
The article surveys enduring beliefs about the man in the moon, noting lines on its surface resemble a figure or symbols such as a man with a fork and thorns. It cites varied origins from Bible passages to Jewish Talmudic lore and 17th century scholars, naming Endymion, a lyon, and a fox as possible interpretations.
A fragment notes Indians in the United States testing some statewide force during the week ending Friday, detailing a regional assessment and scheduled events with uncertain specifics and no clear outcomes.
An Ohio man Jacob Widber arrived in California seeking a “little wife” after inheriting a $100,000 estate. He had worked a year on a Yolo County farm, pledged marriage to a twelve year old girl, left, and later returned to claim her. The Brooklyn Eagle cites a related tale of rheumatism cure via St Jacobs Oil told by W A Davenport of New York.
A collage of contorted classroom math drills from a Philadelphia Record note, odd child quips about weddings from Newark’s Sunday Call, and anecdotes about remedies, work, and street life. The items illustrate humorous, disjointed public life and era chatter in brief, scattered forms.
Ancient remedies claim three organs stay in harmony. Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla mixed with Juniper and Celery reputedly renew health. Testimonials from Hart County Ky and Liberty Ind praise cure but the piece weaves in jokes and a Punch quip about 1882 openin of a new era via telephone.
A fragment from a 1881 notice: a customer at 1400 Parry Street writes to Wanwen & Co. praising Safe Kidney Liver Core for curing her lifelong kidney illness and expressing gratitude to the company and physicians.
A Temple Mills Maine writer to the Cincinnati Farming World portrays herself and her sister as capable homemakers and farm workers. She details spinning wool harvesting gardening and chores while noting ages twenty one and nineteen. The piece contrasts with London officials receiving fine cloth gifts to promote fine goods.
A San Francisco Coast item quotes a Bodie arrival praising a health slogan and recommending Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purga tive Pellets as mild but effective for bilious or constipated conditions. The report notes a local saying about a recently wed mining heiress and her behavior, reflecting light gossip tone.
An aged collage of ads claims Bu chupaiba cures bladder catarrh and kidney complaints and promotes tar and cherry extracts for colds bronchial issues. It promotes Eilert's Extract of Tar and Wild Cherry for respiratory ailments and lists Mrs. Van Bonen in Buffalo and a supplier network. Also touts curing horse ailments with Rescuing from Diata and J uniper Tar Soap by Caswell Hazard. A testimonial extols Dr Winttan Hane’s Ballsam for consumption with a dated patient story.
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