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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1892
Page
3
The Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy makers promise $500 if they cannot cure catarrh no matter how long standing. They claim absolute confidence in the remedy and a long record of perfect cures. The offer is a plain business bet: cure or pay, so if you’re cured you gain, if not you’re paid.
An old Maine woodsman warns against flawed forestry ideas arguing that thinning old trees would ruin the lumber industry by exposing the forest's duff a natural sponge storing moisture. He explains how duff sustains rivers through spring freshets, then details the need to preserve forests to keep waterways and logs flowing to market.
A pointed moral reflects that despite temporary success of schemers, the mastermind who hires or uses knaves will ultimately face consequence. The message cautions against deceit and manipulation in public or private affairs.
A historic anecdote explains how two lead wolves lure a horse with playful behavior then strike in tandem. The first decoy distracts while the second targets the hamstrings or flanks. The horse wheels, the front wolf assists from behind, and the prey collapses as the others close in to feed.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any catarrh cure case Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsing letters from Weat Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin Toledo drug firms attest Cheney & Co. pay obligations. Cure taken internally claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
The Canadian government passed a bounty law offering one cent per pound on beet root sugar produced between July 1, 1891, and July 1, 1893, with an extra three and one third cents per hundred pounds for each degree over seventy on the polariscope test.
Mamie Dickens shares her father's prayer from What My Father Taught Us in Ladies Home Journal, adding Auntie as a personal touch. The piece also extols Wisconsin's prosperity, detailing crops, lumber, manufacturing, livestock, mining, fisheries, and water power, and promotes the Wisconsin Central Lines for settlers with cities along the route.
Hartford experiments reveal that a wedge of light passes through a cleanly cut opening as small as one forty thousandth of an inch. The method uses two clean edges with paper between, observed via a strong light in darkness to calculate the gap. Also noted are Ely's Cream Balm claims for catarrh relief and a new mineral bolerite found near Santa Maria, Lower California.
An 8 inch display ad features a unique word puzzle promising a reward when the word is found. The ad from The Dr Harter Medicine Co claims a crescent mark on all products and publications and offers lithographs as a prize. Additional items promote Broncial Troches, Dr Jayne’s Expectorant, and a hospital in Glasgow with Lady Aberdeen staff.
The sister of W. 8S. Huntley of Cortland New York a famed carpenter speaks of her illness a miraculous recovery aided by Hood's Sarsaparilla. She recounts twelve years of hemorrhages beginning twelve years ago and four years of severe decline as doctors warned their prognosis.
A diatribe on wealth cites Jay Gould traveling to Mexico in a private car. Word of danger from revolutionaries supposedly prompts a cautionary lesson about riches as a burden. The column lightly mocks readers’ happiness without wealth and promotes Rems German Cure with dubious health claims.
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