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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1871
Page
1
Medical advertisement touts Fluid Extract Rhu barb and Fluid Extract Catawba Grape Juice for liver complaints jaundice bilious affections sick or nervous headache costiveness and other ailments. It promises a pure vegetable preparation containing no mercury minerals or deleterious drugs.
Advertises Helmbold’s Compound Fluid Extract Catawba Grape Pills as a gentle, non nauseating laxative that purports to invigorate the system. Claims lack of sugar coating improves dissolution and effect, denying patent medicine status while stressing taste, odor, and pharmacy standards.
Advertises Hoofland's Pedophyllin Bitters Hoofland's Greek Oil and Hoofland's German Bitters as alcohol free and highly potent with extracts from German roots. Claims include liver and digestive cures plus nerve and skin ailments and a tonic with Santa Cruz Rum in a blended bottle. Prices and superiority claims accompany testimonials of broad healing potential.
An advertisement extolls Dr Hoofland's Pedophyllin as a powerful liver cleanser and choleric cathartic, claiming two pills suffice for cleansing, with accompanying Bitters or Tonic for system toning. It promotes universal availability via express delivery from the German Medicine Store in Philadelphia and cites Charles M Evans as proprietor, with broad distribution claims across the Americas and West Indies.
Henry T Helmbold's will proclaims a radical cure that promises to expel from the system a wide range of ailments including scrofula syphilis fever sores ulcers sore eyes sore legs sore mouth sore head bronchitis skin diseases salt rheum cankers runnings from the ear white swellings tumors cancerous affections nodes rickets glandular swellings night sweats rash tetter humors and chronic rheumatism from years established in the body.
Being prepared expressly for the above complaints, its blood purifying properties are greater than any other preparation. It claims to restore health and purity, purify the blood, cure chronic constitutional diseases, pains and swellings of the bones, ulcers, blotches and facial pimples, erysipelas, and all skin eruptions while beautifying the complexion.
An advertisement proclaims The Great Diabetic as curative for diabetes and numerous urinary, kidney, and prostate disorders. It also touts benefits for both sexes including fatigue, memory loss, sleeplessness, and skin issues. The extract Buchy is highlighted as superior for female reproductive health conditions and general frailty. It notes widespread medical use by physicians and midwives.
An advertising notice extols Helmbold extractbuchu as a cure for imprudences and dissipation related diseases with little diet change and no exposure. It claims to ease urethral strictures and inflammation by promoting urination and clearing poisonous matter. Also promotes Helmbold improved Rosewash as a face wash, removing pimples, rash, dryness, and skin flaws to restore clear complexion.
Full directions accompany the medicines offered by Henry T Helmbold. Delivered to any address and secure from observation. Established over 20 years. Sold by druggists nationwide. Inquiries to H T Helmbold at 694 Broadway New York or 104 South Tenth Street Philadelphia. Beware of counterfeits. Ask for Helmbold's family remedy only.
The Register lists subscription prices 200 year in advance 250 after six months and 3800 if paid after year end. It outlines advertising charges per square column and durations including local notices double rates, with restob work due on delivery and advance payment required for all transients.
A nostalgic poem recalls a luminous Paris night with the Empress amid riches and music, followed by a half year later when gloom returns and the Emperor’s fate shifts. An amusing anecdote and a note on plum tree care conclude this eclectic Western Farmer column fragment.
The author Southey claims every person has two immediate parents, four ancestors in the second degree, eight in the third, and so on, doubling each step until the twentieth generation yields 1,030,896 grandfathers and grandmothers.
A reflective piece critiques contemporary coquetry as a fashionable craze surpassing Renaissance efforts. It contrasts past simple dress with current elaborate millinery and gowns, arguing true character outlasts outward adornment. The essay defines coquetry in two senses and warns of its moral hazard, especially among young women who manipulate love for vanity. It laments the damage caused to trusting men and calls for cautious judgment from elders.
A fourteen year old arrested for drunkenness was found not drunk but showed signs of intoxication due to a hereditary condition. The boy, healthy yet ever staggering, revealed he had always acted like a drunkard, reflecting a family pattern as the father, once a secret drunk, reformed after the revelation. The piece argues for inherited traits over Darwinian theory.
A rousing, period voice extols the power of will and persistence. It contrasts bold, energetic self belief with cringing fear and failure, urging readers to adopt a relentless, forward mindset to conquer obstacles and influence the world.
A 19th century veterinary note advises pouring a gill or more of oil or melted grease down the horse to cure the heaves in ten to twenty minutes. Dr Ransom cites feeding half rations of hay for 36 to 48 hours then giving small water portions and an armful of smartweed before the horse. If lung cells remain intact, relief or cure often follows after a single dose.
An old and new collection of sayings echoes from Father Taylor. He warned against delaying repentance noting a powder mill blast could end life before one may seek forgiveness. The quip cautions readers not to rely on fate or a dramatic death to trigger contrition.
The Richmond Inquirer says lawmakers should not rely on persuading Congress and Northern legislatures to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, arguing against staking political future on such repeal efforts.
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