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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1889
Page
3
A humorous narrative from a Washington era column recounts Mario the St Bernard cat at the Smithsonian like a dog, his colossal size, nocturnal antics, and a farcical end with a neighbor's boot. The piece weds satire with social commentary and closes with literary homage to Reynolds and Gainsborough.
A historical note on Thomas Gainsborough as an Academic painter, his clashes with the Royal Academy over exhibitions, and his, Reynolds’s, and the Academy’s reactions. It recalls letters of protest, a final breach, and Gainsborough’s withdrawal from Royal Academy shows.
Harper's Magazine notes varied yields per acre from small plots across fruit and vegetable crops, including strawberry profits over 1700 dollars from two acres and cabbage, tomatoes, and asparagus results. It highlights examples from New Jersey, Atlanta, Rochester, and Long Island, plus dairy area efficiency via agricultural science.
A reflection on destiny and law in history, linking great minds across eras. The piece cites Blowitz in Harper's Magazine and recalls a Chicago belle turning down a feet exhibit, plus a Jersey City undertaker offering funeral furnishings.
A fragment discusses a columnist’s complaint about proprietaries in newspapers. It critiques medical codes, praises Warner's Lafe Cure, jokes about doctors using back stairs for ads, and laments sensational ads amid health cures. It also touches onions for children, Hoatetter’s Stomach Bitters, and a dodgy hat-band headache note.
In a Detroit Free Press excerpt Brother Gardner decries the inevitability of divorce in unhappy marriages and argues the law should allow divorce to spare misery. He notes most scandals involve wives, not divorced individuals, and urges less moral panic, praising divorce as a humane exit.
A Manistee Michigan resident, S. S. Conover of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, testifies after twenty years of rheumatic pain and use of crutches. He reports relief from Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup, noting improved mobility, no need for liniments, and resumed daily walking to his office four blocks away.
A doctor recalls Mrs Brown’s panicked reactions at a patient’s house as his son Bob, six, hears the tale. When Mrs Brown visits, Bob fixes her with a serious gaze and asks if she knows about a wet hen, prompting a puzzled pause before he implies she should.
Over sixty people were forced to leave their homes yesterday to call for a free trial package of Lane's Family Medicine. The advertisement claims the remedy cures blood defects and liver and kidney issues, constipation, headaches, and an unsightly complexion. A large size package is 50 cents and praised by ladies.
A medieval French maxim about daily hours contrasts with modern schedules. The translation notes rising at five, meals at nine, and bedtime at nine, arguing the pace of life has altered centuries apart while suggesting human routines endure across time.
Stop the cough with Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites. It will ease coughing and promote lung healing, endorsed by physicians and sold by all druggists. Palatable as milk. Coax-Shure, Zulu’s bite off by the butcher. a noisy domestic scene follows.
A Lexington club in Georgia boasts a log house built with clay chinking and a massive open fireplace. The weekly supper features fireside cooking of birds, fish, possum, and oysters. An unrelated ad extols Electric Soap as pure and cost saving.
A farmer finds a lazy helper asleep under a tree and scolds him for idleness while the man explains he rests in shade because he is slow. The ad urges teachers and clergymen to write to B. Johnson & Co. in Richmond for changing employment and profitable odd hours.
A correspondent recommends tar smoke as a diphtheria cure. The treatment involves placing tar on a warm stove lid and the patient inhaling and swallowing the smoke ten times daily for five minutes each session. The writer claims consistent success in experiments.
A fragmentary item promotes Oregon as a fertile, temperate land with abundant crops and invites readers to contact the Oregon immigration Board in Portland. The piece also includes a string of local jokes and puns about types of people, carpet cleaning, and hair. It concludes noting smiles as higher responses of emotion.
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