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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1893
Page
3
A vintage ad proclaims Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a purely vegetable remedy eradicating fever ague bilious remittent and stomach liver bowels disorders. It argues malarial susceptibility wanes with vigorous digestion and cautions quinine is inferior. Also notes Nevada chaplain plagiarism claim and Bavaria beer output versus drunkenness.
Pennsylvania boards outside Philadelphia have already provided free text books to more than 2,000 schools. The effort aims to ease costs for students and ensure widespread access to educational materials.
A San Francisco Examiner writer argues we are in a peak era of transport speed, with steam and rail nearing 100 mph, ocean liners over 21 knots and the need to abolish grade crossings, double tracks, and automatic block signals to safely reach faster cross continental travel. The piece notes current lines like Pennsylvania and New York Central, plus practical barriers like city-entrance improvements and tunnel projects. A humorous aside follows about a cynic and a French pupil misinterpreting marsupials.
A compilation of amusing anecdotes from schools and public life. It notes Austrian pupil misstatements, a chimpanzee with a hypnotized gaze on a mirror, and a humorous Irish pamphlet anecdote. It also comments on German Empress Augusta Victoria and Wilhelm II's distant, non-ambitious stance in European affairs.
The passage surveys renowned individuals reputed to have stammered, listing Moses and Aaron, Claudius II and other rulers, Louis XIII anecdotes, Admiral Annebant, Tartaglia, Boissy Anglas, painter David, critic Hoffmann, Camille Desmoulins, and actress Mrs. Inchbald, noting varying degrees of speech difficulty and public adaptability.
A collage of brief items and quotes spans topics from a Civil War anecdote about Jeems C. to iron water purification claims in Antwerp and an 1936 affidavit guaranteeing a cure for catarrh. Also listed are old watchmen rules from Boston 1769, estate oddities in Vienna, Dobbins soap praise, pug dog farming in Osage City Kansas, a Japanese greeting, and a note on elephant height.
A New York World legend tells how cholera killed six thousand in a king's realm while ten thousand died of fear, illustrating fear as a deadly companion. The piece then notes aluminium's cost hindering use, a possible rich aluminium clay find in Alabama and Georgia, and various short notices including laxatives, real estate in Jerusalem, playing cards for sale, a snake laboratory, and a tobacco-using hog.
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