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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1888
Page
3
A Montana road agent era tale shows a woman concealing $1000 in her dress for safety. When masked robbers confront the coach, she returns the man’s money, sparing her husband a heavy loss. The grateful host reveals her ruse and the unintended consequence at breakfast.
The article notes Haggard’s view of American novels as dull and cites Dorothy and Earnest from a fictional exchange. It references Haggard born in 1856 at Bradenham Hall Norfolk, serving as Master of the High Court in the Transvaal, and now a London lawyer with 200,000 copies of She sold in England and the United States per St. Louis Magazine.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote sets in a grocery where castaway talk leads to a grim pause. The crowd debates life on an inhabited island with a grocer and a red-hot stove. One by one the wrecked agailors depart on errands, the mood turning quiet.
A St. Louis professor is credited with a bizarre claim that the word potato could be spelled as pht height teeall provoking debate among reformers. The piece mocks regressive views and calls for universal peace and progress.
The Spectator Publishing Company Boston Maia issues a pamphlet detailing cures attributed to Dr. R. C. Flower many with noted figures as patients. It highlights diagnostic powers described in the New Haven Register and features a portrait and image of Flower’s Health Palace. Free mailed copies offered to readers who send name and address.
Industrial World describes a Congo method to cook an elephant or hippopotamus by burying flesh in a sealed earth oven. A four foot hole is filled with coals and layered with wet flag, mud, sod, and earth. The thirty six hour bake yields meat that is white and tempting after skin removal, eaten by the locals with avidity.
A humorous, mixed text notes dangers at sea and rail travel, praising Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy for seasickness, stomach disorders from brackish water, and climate fatigue. It blends travel lore with an advertisement and a brief joke from Siftings about a servant and mistress debating dress usage.
A fragment from a Washington critique portrays a scene where a suitor asks for Mr and Mrs Smith, only to be told they are out. The woman responds with a sharp retort that would have saved trouble if spoken to her first, then shifts to weather as a closing aside. The Epoch notes a satirical tone about romance and distant propriety.
A collection of brief quips and anecdotes from a Chicago Mail item and assorted readers. Jokes cover a tramp’s blessing, advice on smoking meat, a joke about a girl named Mise Jones, and a note on a catarrh remedy. Includes a short Herald mention of a dispute between two New York clubs and two policemen.
A mixed set of testimonial snippets includes G B Harrison of Liberty Texas praising Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup and Planters, and a dealer note by Col Walker from West Lebanon Ind. Also quoted are favors for Scott's Emulsion and Wells' Velvet Dream cosmetic claims, plus pest control tips and assorted ads from 1887.
The article lauds Dr. R. Pierce and his Golden Medical Discovery as a universal remedy from nature. It credits the Creator for plant remedies and claims the lab reveals its secrets through labor, touting the medicine for consumption in early stages and for chronic nasal catarrh, scrofula, tumors, and blood disorders.
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