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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1871
Page
1
Medical advertisement notes Helmbold's Compound Fluid Extract and Catawba Grape Pills for urinary and general health. Claims include relief of weak kidneys and cost-focused marketing aimed at male consumers, with period branding.
An advertisement extols H. T. Weimbold's Compound Fluid Extract Catawba Grape Pills as a superior purgative, surpassing castor oil and salts. It claims they tonic the system without nausea, avoid sugar coating, taste pleasant, and are prepared by sound pharmacy methods rather than patent medicines.
The will of Tenry T Helmbold asserts a method to eradicate many ailments from the body. It lists diseases such as syphilis fever sores ulcers sore eyes and chronic conditions along with various tumors swellings and humors, claiming broad curative efficacy.
The text promotes a blood purifying preparation named Sarsapril le as superior for cleansing the blood. It claims to restore health and purity, cure chronic constitutional diseases, and address bone pain and swelling, throat and leg ulcers, facial blotches, pimples, erysipelas, and skin eruptions while beautifying the complexion.
This advertises IL T. HELMBOLD'S Extract Buchu as a cure for diabetes related issues, kidney and bladder inflammations, urinary retention, prostate diseases, bladder stones, and various female conditions. It claims to strengthen the urinary tract, relieve strictures, and improve overall vitality, urging use across ages and both sexes.
The advertisement touts I. T. Helmbold's Rosewash as an unmatched facial remedy for pimples freckles and skin dryness. It claims rapid removal of redness and inflammation and lists extensive directions and secure delivery. It cites long establishment and distribution by Helmbold with addresses in New York and Philadelphia and warns against counterfeits.
An ad extols a German-root based Bitters free of spirits offering medicinal virtue in one bottle equal to gallons of ordinary mixtures. Hoofland's German Tonic combines Bitters with Saxoa Cruzium to mask bitterness, priced at $1.50 per bottle. Claims include liver and digestive cures, warns against cheap substitutes, and lists widespread availability through US and the Americas.
The Register lists annual and monthly rates with prepayment terms and penalties for late payment. It details half and whole column ad prices, renewal rules, and requirements that transient ads be prepaid while job-work is due on delivery.
A spoof piece from Turner's Falls Mass remarks on a church choir and its 2 quartets with names for each voice, praising oddities such as the Tenore Obsolete with 26 registers and a submarine Bas Profundis, then shifts to a pulp mill and a milk confessor labeled Berks, all in a satiric, high tone.
Be Col. G. W. Dickey of California issues a challenge to match a green horse that has never trotted for money in mile heats three best in five harness racing on the Sacramento race course against any horse, mare, or gelding in the world for $10,000. The challenge has been accepted.
A piece contrasts how phrases like broken bones and hollow ware gain force through receivers across contexts from Punch to Texan revolutionaries. It notes collectors displaying fragments of skeletons in a building, shaping public perception as patriotism, philanthropy, or medical science, with Washington seen as a whited sepulchre and a hall crowded with bones.
A collage of curiosities about microscopic life and insects in sand, mould as a forest, and the surfaces of the human body. It transitions to social notes on air and water, the Washington monument, and a satirical call for applicants to lay stones. It also jokes about dinner hours, a Greenland voyage incident, burglar-proof safes, a boy in a cask, Alaskan bears, and a Michigan school committee remark on punishment.
A column mixes a report on Stras burg relic stands selling bomb fragment souvenirs with a parade of varied clippings. It notes inkstands from obits, cathedral stone fragments, and shells sold as mantel ornaments while tourists buy them. the piece also surveys marriage, temperance, and social quips with remarks on Beecher, Anthony, and fashionable New York women.
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