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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1890
Page
3
If Your Liver Reminds You of its existence by dull pain or sharp twinges in the right side or beneath the right shoulder blade, accept the warning and regulate the organ with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The remedy alleviates constipation, furred tongue, and nausea, restores appetite and digestion, purifies the blood, and strengthens the system against malaria while also aiding rheumatism and kidney bladder troubles.
A drunken man offers his seat to a lady then yells at another passenger, while other riders side with him. The page also touts remedies from Favorite Prescription to Dr Pierce’s Pills, a Montreal police note about a missing son, a claim for Hall's Catarrh Cure, and a Paris nightly fashion drink of hot boiled milk with orange water.
In East Brady Pennsylvania Grandfather Lickshingle recounts an unusual day in the newspaper office. A rugged visitor sought to trade a load of wood for job work and demanded an eight by twelve inch printed card. The exchange underscores quirky barter motives amid a crowded paper.
In East Brady, J C Kirkwood, known as the father of thirty four children, agreed to a portrait with a caption printed across his breast. A tintype reversed the letters, producing a backward inscription. He refused a corrected print, choosing to keep the tintype and its odd record for the Kirkwood family.
A European vignette on French thrift and pastime describes hatter delays in St. Malo where customers are kept waiting as shopkeepers nap and dine. It contrasts with a Norman town where M Perrin’s shop is closed for the weekend, showing how time is treated differently by tradespeople.
A Bengal planter sent for a well educated wife from England. The woman arrived to cold reception, and after limited contact the couple found they were not suited. On parting, the man entrusted a note to his London factor for the wife with a request to consider. She learns in town of a letter pleading for acceptance of fifteen hundred.
A woman who had been distressed by a man’s misbehavior was likely consoled by a compensation of 28 pounds for the disappointment his wayward fancy had caused her. The lady cared nothing for the man and found solace in the settlement.
W T Carleton recalls a McCaull Opera Company prank that froze his voice during a Kansas City to San Francisco tour. Comedian Francis Wilson held up a caricature of a fat woman as the singer delivered a sentimental speech, leaving him unable to finish and forced to apologize.
A Boston paper reports a five century old preserved head of a South American Indian named Huambilra, killed in a war with the Angaruan Indians on the Santiago River. The embalmed relic, measuring about an orange in size, is valued at $5,000 and will be donated to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
A man reads a pretend kiss from a crinkled paper corner as a cousin jokes about a girl leaving a lipstick mark to imply a kiss. The Philadelphia Press notes satire of sentimentality and predicts printers may soon market ready biased paper with red lips scent.
A Virginia City Enterprise item describes Piute customs noting the father-in-law often causes trouble while a son-in-law welcomes his mother-in-law. The mother-in-law’s visit doubles a man’s workload, as she is sent to town with fuel to trade for money for his poker game.
A Van Wert reader in 1689 testifies that rheumatic sciatic pain nearly paralysed him for a year. After trying physicians he used Hibpard’s Rheumatic Syrup and was cured after four bottles, with surgeons endorsing the testimonial.
A fragmenting parade of social quips and curiosities from a New York Sun cartoon remark. It recounts a streetcar encounter on Bleecker Street, a quip about a woman’s gait, and a witty platform remark. The page also advertises Kemp’s Balsam and a strange Curacoa drawbridge tale along with assorted brief notices and misc. items.
ABBE Dis Gopins has returned to France with a manuscript of a Thibetan dictionary to be published in Europe in Latin French and English. Anna Brackett notes that before Richard II English women who rode rode like men and introduced the side saddle via Anna of Bohemia. Pro Pico the aged Mexican governor is a pauper. pawnbrokers in New York funded a move against usury reform. The olive-tree aged. a Beaulieu tree five centuries old. The BC sealing fleet has taken some seals.
A tense scene shows a father banning a young man from visiting, only to learn his daughter values the power of the press. The daughter concedes the reporter’s influence, noting it would be pointless to resist and that yielding to the press is wise.
The item highlights a public health claim for Syrup of Figs noting its gentle action on kidneys liver and bowels and cleansing effects. A St Petersburg dispatch warns English readers to doubt Russia claims amid suppressed works and rising political tension. Also reports a Dutch gold sand claim on the Rhine and the death of Benjamin Darling inventor of the red volver pistol at eighty two in Woonsocket R I.
An assortment of patent medicine claims fills the item with pills for rheumatic and liver ailments, a bridge note on Pierre South Dakota, homestead boosters urging Free Home information, Piso’s Cure for Consumption advertised at 25 cents, and Vansill’s unch cigars pushed to travelers.
A physician claims Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription cures female ailments and promotes health through an extensive tonic and regulator. The ad extols benefits for irregularity backache nervous prostration and fatigue and invites readers to request a 160 page book by mail with a 10 cent stamp.
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