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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1886
Page
3
An elderly Washington Star anecdote recalls a story from decades ago of cats overrunning a square near the Patent Office. Villagers posted a demand for cats hair, attracting boys who killed many felines and attempted to separate hair by shade for payment. The plan collapsed. cats nearly vanished.
A. W. Osborn, bee keeper in Cuba, argues bees hear and react quickly. He recalls California observations where swarms attacked horses dogs and more within minutes, showing no mercy and indicating communication among bees. He warns against freeing targets during such stinging furor and recounts his own painful sting episode.
The article recalls quill pens common in schools forty to fifty years ago, noting goose quills as standard and swan quills as better yet costly. It explains selection by wing side, spring-harvested quills as best, and preparation by sand-bath heating and scraping to produce usable, elastic yet brittle pens.
The article describes methods to create artificial ivory. One French method uses gelatine and alumina with acid immersion to absorb alumina into gelatine, drying to produce a hard polishable material. A second method mixes bone or ivory dust with equal parts albumen or gelatine to form a paste for rolling.
A French invention uses two parts caoutchouc and thirty six parts chloroform dissolved with ammonia gas. Distilling off the chloroform yields a residue mixed with phosphate of lime pressed into molds and dried. This method yields a convincing imitation of true ivory.
A Detriot Free Press account recounts a river steamboat scene where a weary former slave explains that freedom feels mixed. The old man describes fears of being thrown overboard during slavery and now feeling ignored as he is treated like ordinary white trash by others aboard.
The article discusses competing shamrock legends, noting the black Nonesuch or Medicago and the Dutch clover as candidates. It recounts St Patrick’s Trinity illustration using a trefoil to explain one God in three persons, a tale that allegedly convinced the Irish to convert and led to the shamrock’s dedication to the saint.
The passage notes various regions supposedly exempt from malaria and extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure or preventive for fevers and related ailments. It also mentions foolscap paper history and cites Mr. James A. Sample praising Red Star Cough Cure for coughs without adverse effects.
A dialogue excerpt contrasts mindless routine with fresh feeling in performers of the Mikado and mentions literary allusions to cuckoos and Lear. It cites St Jacobs Oil as widely recognized for pain relief, noting growing press and public endorsement across lands.
The notice promotes the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot offering 618 rooms, a million dollar fit out, and rates from $1 daily. It urges travelers to save baggage and express age and carriage hire, with elevator service by Bybee Jan and Hontaurant supplied for t. Horse cars and stages to all depots. Families are urged that they can live better for less money at this first class hotel.
The long running experimental tea farm in South Carolina, funded by government money, has yielded little beyond indifferent results. Cold weather this winter stripped leaves and worsened prospects, prompting Commissioner Colman of the Department of Agriculture to suggest abandoning the project. The piece argues the U.S. cannot compete with China on tea due to low wages there and profit in middlemen, urging retreat from the costly venture.
A long advertisement lists free bottles of Warner’s White Wine of Tar, and various tonics and salves. It cites ministers, lawyers, doctors, teachers, druggists, and the public with names of products like Rough on Rats and Ely's Cream Balm, praising cures for coughs, catarrh, hay fever, bilious stomachs, rheumatism, and hair loss. It includes testimonials and mailing details.
The snippet sells Dr Pierce products and other tonics for health, including Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery, plus Jones Red Clover Tonic and Vixegar bitters. It touts cures for consumption early stages, coughs, dyspepsia, and skin ailments, with testimonials, price references, and various “Rough on” preparations. It also mentions a political note about a baseball player in the legislature and ends with Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners.
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