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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1883
Page
3
A discussion among literary and scientific minds explores whether dreams reveal a possible nonphysical future life. The dream account recounts travel in France with friends, a storm, inn life, and nature’s scenes, prompting questions about consciousness without the body and whether dream life mirrors earthly existence or outlasts it.
A Philadelphia Press correspondent recalls a tour of the Hermitage, noting faded relics and neglect in Gen. Andrew Jacksons former home. Washingtons chair rests near the entry, portraits and era furnishings line the halls, and the sickly wife of Andrew Jackson Donaldson remains among the few living links to history.
A London scene shows bootblacks in bright scarlet coats marching with boxes on their heads. They sing popular songs, call out for tips, and workers apply boot blacking on street corners. A box bears the label 4 6 use Bunkum's blacking, which is provided free by Mr. Bunkum.
A historical note contrasts naval tactics at Trafalgar with modern sea warfare. It describes guns placed low to limit enemy fire and boarding through lower-deck ports. It recalls ships, despite close combat, remaining maneuverable, and notes that ramming would not yield the same outcome today.
A fragmentary report notes that several torpedoes exploded successfully, risking the Inflexible turning into a helpless wreck in an instant, as described by The Nineteenth Century.
An essay on Paget's theory that diseases pass through families via inherited dispositions. It notes cancer, consumption, insanity, epilepsy, gout, and alcoholism as inherited frailties and warns against intermarriages of disease. It argues consanguinity heightens risk and urges considering posterity over affection or status in marriage decisions.
A Massachusetts town reports a curious English composition exercise in its annual School Committee review. It cites a long ornate sentence praising Mozart, Haydn and Handel and the magic of prose and song, noting Mainz and Greece as cultural landmarks, with a New York reference to Thaddeus Davids and St Jacobs Oil.
Indian chief relates to Sam Houston a tale for the origin of Texas. Spaniards overran Mexico forcing red men north to the Rio Grande. They crossed salt marshes and, exhausted, spotted a bluff over the Colorado. The lush scene spurred joyful cry Tellas Tehas or Tejas meaning Parise and thus the state's name.
A fragment from Newbern North Carolina notes a pond scene with about twenty domesticated geese and peculiar mating habits. It mentions that geese do not mate until age eight and cannot be raised from the third year, and that if one mates it never pairs again. The piece also cites a Baltimore Catholic Mirror endorsement of St Jacobs Oil by Rt Rev Bishop Gilmour.
A Boston Globe reporter meets Mrs. M. W. Wingate in Haverhill. The middle aged physician details twenty five years in medicine, her Harvard ties, and her focus on female health. She praises Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure and notes offers such as a professorship at a Pacific coast college were declined.
A public notice urges young men to curb injurious habits and seek health through temperance and Dr Guyson's Yellow Dock and Sarsa parila. It warns against quack doctors and advises asking a druggist to obtain the remedy to restore strength and protect manhood.
In a wartime tale Ninon and Armand share a fragile reunion. Armand, blinded and crippled, questions love and fidelity as Ninon consoles him. She declares devotion, asking him to give all he has for France and love, then draws close in a tender kiss.
The New York World reveals vast profits in funeral goods with manufacturers selling to undertakers at half retail and often less. Coffins shrouds and fittings show gross margins of 50 percent or more, with firms stocking thousands of coffins priced from 10 to 400 dollars.
An elderly Boston host introduces two scions of leading families to ladies opposite. One man dismisses the women as peasant beauty, but the host reveals they are his country nieces and insists on honoring their status, refusing apology yet aiming to vindicate his house’s honor.
In Hart County Georgia a woman born twenty children and reportedly raised every one. A neighbor recalled storm, horn signaling, and counting as children entered. She believed twenty-one but then tested by sending them out to enter one by one while a visitor tallied.
Public endorsement by religious leaders for Warner’s Tar Syrup, free bottle offers to ministers, and a collection of medicinal and consumer product notices. Items include Hood’s Sarsaparilla anecdote, electrical appliances trial for men with debility, Army and Navy cures claims, Lyon’s heel stiffeners, and various patent medicines.
An advertisement touts Caswell Hazard Co. Pure Cod Liver Oil as superior and sweet tasting, claims physicians prefer it over rivals. Also promotes Carboline petroleum hair restorer for silky hair. A Boston case extols Hood's Sarsaparilla for a severe facial eruption in a child, with corroboration from local residents Carey and Cook.
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