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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1882
Page
3
A reflective piece on the word sometime and the visions it spawns. It follows youths, a girl, a new lover, a weary worker, an invalid, and an aged pilgrim all imagining future happiness and better existence. The piece muses on hope, growth, home, wealth, love, and the dream of a blessed afterlife.
The speaker expresses sympathy for jobless wanderers and vagrants, cherishing the memory of their mothers and the loving care from childhood. He reflects on the cradle, lullabies, and the harsh journey from maternal arms to hardship and want.
The article reviews lingering beliefs in animal oils as cures. It notes believers in rattlesnake oil for rheumatic ailments and recounts a traveling quack who profited from such cures. It mentions demand for pickerel oil claimed to treat deafness on the square.
The article notes pickerel oil and mud turtle oil were once common staple items in drug stores priced at 50 cents per ounce and one dollar per pint respectively. It observes these oils are now rarely found and that their scarcity may heighten belief in their wonders as reported by the ew ing on Maine Journal.
Florence Nightingale, born in May 1820 in Florence Italy, rose from affluent roots to become a humanitarian leader. She organized nurse leadership in the Crimea, aided soldiers’ care, and inspired a £50 000 testimonial fund to train and employ nurses. Her writings boosted global recognition of compassionate medical service.
A city paper suggested using old newspapers as an inexpensive bed covering to trap heat. The piece notes paper is a poor conductor and layers of air heat insulates better than heavy blankets. It recommends stacking newspapers for warmth, a thrift approach for destitute families, travelers, and window plants during severe cold.
A colonial voice jokes about education and nature in Ebony style while Lucy Hoarts describes three Paris dress classes, from Mondaines to actresses and tradeswomen, noting Catholic nobility in plain garb. Death’s tyranny haunts imagination in stark prose.
A historical account notes early arranged marriages in Hindoo families with girls as young as six or seven contracted to marry and living with husbands by adolescence. It contrasts the orthodox ideal of a single faithful husband with Krishna’s reputed many affairs and elopements, highlighting attitudes toward marital fidelity.
A Baltimore man credits Dr R V Prewer of Buffalo with curing his wife after nearly twenty years as an invalid using the Favorite Prescription. The letter is part of a broader collection including a schoolboy's playful letter from Brooklyn Fagle, describing everyday child life and mischief at boarding school.
For those with weak lungs or coughing blood a pamphlet is offered. Send two stamps to Dr. R V Pierce at Haftalo New York for his treatise describing these throat and lung maladies.
A New York society note recalls a leading Astor woman cutting new moneyed names from her visiting list to protect old families. The Vanderbilts are specifically excluded while Vanderbilts and other newcomers are urged to stay away. The piece weaves in satirical quips about medicine ads and comic translated scraps, hinting at social friction and era humor.
A 1881 Portiano Michigan notice lauds Safe Kidney and Liver Cure for urinary issues. Includes testimonial from J. S. Mathews and claims of back pain relief. Mentions urging recipients to try Kidney-Wort as a cure.
In a London Punch style scene a mother defends home ties for boys while a general predicts marriage schemes. A lady awaits word of her son George who has vanished with the maid. A footman reports the maid gone to fetch fresh air and the boy and maid are missing with lunch awaiting.
Health and Strength. When you wish to renew your health, use a medicine that will act in harmony with the entire system. It builds up without tearing down and creates a healthy appetite. This remedy strengthens every part of the body and purifies the blood, leaving disease less able to react. The principal ingredients are Yellow Dock, Sarsaparilla, Juniper, Buchu, Calisya Bark and Celery. Try one bottle. Its effect is charming.
Reported tale tells how Dr. Landon of the Army Medical Department, wounded at Majuba Mountain as Sir George Colley fell, propped beside a rock and self-administered morphine to ease a wounded corporal, dying in agony. The account is supported by Jone N. McFannan of Ashland Kentucky praising Dr. Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparita as life saving.
A discussion frames amusement as a real need, not a luxury, vital for all ages and classes. It notes varied sources for satisfaction and mentions a Brigham Young son teaching at West Point. An advertisement promises thirty days trial of Electro-Voltaic Belts for nervous debility and restoration of vigor, with no risk.
In Evrspure Dl on December fifteenth eighteen eighty one Browsnack Bros endorse Piso's Cure to all customers. They warrant every bottle and claim it gives complete satisfaction and regard it as the best cough remedy on the market.
Hopkins Mower is highlighted in this issue as a fast rising ad favorite, praised for broad appeal and rapid rise in popularity among readers aware of the product.
Catarrh of the bladder suffered with stinging irritation and discharge is claimed cured by Buchu paiba and Slat druggierx. Prepaid by express at 125, six for $5 from E.S. Wells, Jersey City New Jersey. Also marketed Elert's Extract of Tar and Wild Cherry said to cure colds coughs croup catarrh consumption and bronchial complaints. Advertises Mensman's Perrowizep Breer Tonia beef extract for debility and pulmonary woes from Casweil Hazard Co New York. Uncle Sam's Compound Power for stock health guards against disease and improves appetite. Sold by druggists.
A thief stole a lamb carcass from a meat market and fled into an alley. He was chased by two pursuers who mistook a passerby for their man, claiming a fellow ran off with a sheep. The true thief escaped as the meat was recovered by the others. Detroit Free Press. YouTarrE anecdote follows about a yolk and farina jelly diet for stomach debility from Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.
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