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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1892
Page
3
Long before opening to foreigners Japan kept a sophisticated time system with twelve months and a day divided by watches divisions and hours. Priests marked time with bells while the lay public used hours, and two clock types the Jong clock and round clock were developed with ingenious month based adjustments.
In a swell Union Square shop a refined audience watches a pianist perform as a stylish girl plays. A shabby tramp disrupts, interrupts, and critiques the pianist, scattering the bystanders into stunned silence for moments before order returns. A later editorial muses on youth and aging, urging young women to cherish their fleeting season of youth.
A Santa Fe Railway belt track spans San Bernardino Los Angeles and Orange counties letting riders loop a circuit starting and ending at the same city. A tramp rode the line, mistaking a division HQ for a stop, finally realizing he rode through San Bernardino all day. Swycart’s LA lodging and wardrobe antics hint at his spendthrift days before returning home in old attire.
A reader reports Mr Maxim's experimental flying machine as a steam kite of thirteen by four feet, powered by a light screw at 2,500 RPM. A larger 110 by 40 foot kite is planned with an eighteen foot diameter screw and a petroleum condensing engine to lift 40,000 pounds, totaling about 11,800 pounds with two engineers onboard, aiming to carry ten to twelve tons. Hot drinks stated to curb thirst outperform cold beverages and aid digestion, suggesting temperature above 60 degrees.
A young girl and boy arrive together at a public school on opening day. The teacher records their names as Ralph and Edith Johnson and learns they are twins, not just siblings. The moment frames a surprising family link shared at the classroom door.
A New York Evening Sun piece discusses women’s vocal expressiveness, noting a decline in intonation and eloquent laughter. The author links corsets to restricted respiration, arguing full laughter requires unimpeded breath and that lost humor follows.
An Irish landowner hosts an English nobleman for a day of hunting. The gamekeeper, a loyal old servant, boasts that every beast or bird ever named can be found on the estate. When asked about paradoxes, the keeper grins and says two or three lie on the sand at low tide.
The text warns of hidden onset of influenza like illness and urges early use of Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters to speed blood flow and induce warmth and perspiration to expel the ailment. It claims benefits for malaria constipation rheumatism and kidney trouble and recommends a wineglassful before sleep for restful health.
A hoax advertisement hints at evolution of the big toe and a useless little toe, while a 83 inch display ad promotes The Dr Harter Medicine Co offering Crescent branded products and free gifts for guessing a word.
A description of Carthusian tableland near Monterey Mexico, 1,400 feet high and 2,500 above sea level, with a crescent shape and 80,000 acres of level land with streams. Also mentions bromohydrate of ammonia for asthma per Journal de Medicine. Campaign catalogue by Lyon & Healy and other varied items.
An old advertisement extols the true laxative principle of figs in Syrup of Figs as permanently beneficial, warns against cheap extracts and minerals as injurious, and urges use of the genuine California product. Also includes a humorous exchange about Mr. Simpson and a Dr Isaac Thompson eye product.
A 19th century advertisement touts Reid's German Cure for colds and ensuing illnesses like malaria cholera morbus and bronchitis. It claims safety for children, rapid relief for croup, and prices of 25 and 50 cents for small and large bottles from SYLVAN REMEDY Co Peoria.
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