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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1888
Page
3
A Detroit Free Press sketch shows Mrs Skinner bargaining at a rural shop. The talk covers gingham prices, fast colors claims, and the humorous back and forth as customers try to squeeze value, while the shopkeeper laments losses and sticks to two bit margins.
A Baltimore paper hanger sleeps from early spring afternoon until late September, a long idle period described with humor and social commentary. The piece contrasts labor types, notes routine noise and pride in work, and laments stress and overwork in America driven by lack of recreation.
The Louisville Commercial criticizes Amelie Rives's The Quick and the Dead for overdone panting by all characters including the heroine her maid a lover and even the hound puppies dragged into the novel The piece notes the critique seems fair while admitting the writer did not read far into the mix.
In a Chicago News extract a weary Dorcas recalls Gotham sneaking toward a confession. He steadies himself and whispers that his heart pants in a tender moment, while Dorcas playfully presses for truth about his feelings in a small parlor scene.
In a Jersey City Heights dwelling, patent lawyer Livingston Gifford built a room for each case won, creating a house that rivals a hotel in size. His son notes the mansion now requires a pocket compass to navigate its many wings and extensions, a legacy of courtroom success.
Gov. Smith now Judge Smith recalls a Washington moment in the House gallery with an unlit cigar. An Irish doorkeeper instructed him to stop smoking, prompting a witty exchange about whether a cigar is lit. The officer doubted the lawmakers’ ability to tell.
A New York Sun item outlines a sugar-free preservation method using clean wide mouthed bottles packed with fruit, corked tightly, sealed with twine, then boiled gently in water to preserve fruit for years. It mentions related antiquities laws in Greece and Egypt, a Japanese armor find near Victoria British Columbia, and other assorted notes from Baltimore to Dayton.
A narrator recalls a boy living in Germany who reads a German novel with gutural language and reacts strongly. The boy grows up to become a German philosopher Fichte, leaving a difficult name behind. The speaker laments not being able to hear his parents’ views on Fichte’s philosophy.
Worth Knowing that Allcock's Porous Plasters are deemed the highest in medical science and skill with unmatched ingredients and method. They are advertised as original genuine plasters whose reputation rivals imitators and said to rapidly and effectively remedy weak back rheumatism sciatica colds lung trouble kidney difficulties malaria dyspepsia liver and stomach affections strains and local pains.
A Panora Unpire note mocks Quaker young ladies in Maine who reportedly kiss men to test liquor tampering. It depicts a bold approach by a girl delivering a playful accusation and an exaggerated role play ending with rousing cheers for Maine women and a wish to travel to Iowa or back to Maine.
The advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a life saver for rheumatism and heart risk, claiming it frees the sufferer from pain and danger. It touts purging impurities via kidneys and bladder, aiding gout, dropsy, dyspepsia, fever and ague, and general debility with clock like bodily function.
A fragment from a nightly collection shows a professor teased by a wife on stairs while a passing quip on reading and Bacon surfaces. Cartoonish banter includes misheard lines about drinking, schooling, and a miscommunicated toast in a public setting.
An old reader asks about earth division. The piece quotes a teacher and humor, then advertises products. Scott's Emulsion claims to aid consumption and bronchitis and notes a child gaining weight. It includes endorsements from doctors and advertisements for various remedies.
A public wellbeing comparison links a citywide transport strike to trade paralysis, then shifts to medical advice on constipation. It warns neglecting a sluggish liver can cause kidney and liver issues, malarial trouble, and dyspepsia, promoting Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets as a safe preventive treatment. A Detroit Free Press item notes a man died from Kentucky whisky, saying he was not a Kentuckian.
A patron imagines the next comet taking the form of a huge bottle labeled Golden Medical Discovery. Dr. Pierce continues to publish this vegetable compound hailed as a universal rememvered tonic for liver and kidney vigor, blood purification, and whole-body renewal. It is described as a specific for scrofula and early lung consumption.
Advertises the Great Rock Island Route as the fast safe and luxurious option for summer travel via Chicago to Council Bluffs Omaha and beyond. Highlights round trip tourist tickets at low rates include vestibule trains with palace cars to Colorado Utah Idaho Montana and Wyoming plus popular resorts like Colfax Springs Spirit Lake and Lake Minnetonka. Addresses E A Holbrook Gen Ticket and Passenger Agent for information.
Offer from J. D. Larkin & Co. invites readers to mail name and address on a postal card to receive a Great Box on trial. The box includes Sweet Home Soup and presents, with an assurance of no risk if acted on promptly.
A playful exchange ends with the couple revealing a $60,000 fortune was a joke. He professed love, she pretended poverty to test him, then confessed wealth, and they both admit the money was not the point.
An article extols duties of the good housewife and promotion of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for feminine ailments with a guaranteed satisfaction or money back. It also notes testimonials and the presence of advertised cures like Rough on Rats and various tonics and salves with prices.
A long standing claim touts a purely vegetable remedy described as a scientific specific. It purifies the blood and kidneys, cures disease, and has been tested thoroughly before market release. Endorsements come from Prof S A Lattimore and the New York State Board of Health along with numerous chemists and physicians.
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