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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1881
Page
3
An urban midnight scene unfolds with a distressed woman walking seaward. A black wave looms as she nears the merciless water, then the tide shifts to a tranquil pastoral view with a pale face looking skyward for pity and love.
In summer 1876 a hunting party on Grand Encampment Creek encounters Judge Amsden a boastful former Judge from California. Jim Baker tricks him into attempting to shoot sleeping Indians but Amsden refusess to trust his rifle and flees in terror as shots erupt and the camp panics.
A collage of curiosities: a coal bank fire near El Moro Colorado. an ancient glass-fire tale from heat. solitary wasp predation. Indian wild dogs stalking sambur. Persian funeral tears as medicinal charms. ice weight experiments on a tree limb. a Danbury man’s phantom limb pain cured by repositioning his missing arm. a patent remedy for indulgence effects touts Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
In a frontier tale, Baker reports a fighter’s abrupt departure after a dangerous hunt. A daybreak inquiry reveals the man claimed a savage battle with Indians and that the others were massacred, then he vanished toward the railroad.
A board of eminent physicians and chemists announced a combined remedy creating a medicine that cures many diseases, dispelling skepticism. Trials prove its merits, and the discoverers of Hop Bitters are honored and blessed as benefactors by the Democrat newspaper.
The notice quotes George Borrow on physical prowess and fatherhood, cites a case of St Jacobs Oil curing a sprain, extols labor as life's driving force and civilization's product, and ends with a claim about Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound aiding female weakness.
A compact set of excerpts shows a testimonial for Hop Bitters curing a bedridden wife, a 1847 political anecdote about Millard Fillmore and a civic remark on newspapers shaping daily knowledge. Also mentions Fuon the Winnington items and a Kinxry-Wont claim to cure piles.
The text notes the dullness of competitive examinations in India with a sharp quip about a Hindoo half caste answering who ruled Caesar and who first brought Christianity to India. The London World shows the ironic tone highlighting the era’s attitude toward civil service quizzes.
An OCR fragment advertises various patent medicines and tonics. It promotes Dr Winchell’s Teething Syrup for infant ailments, Caswell Hazard & Co. petroleum oil, a petroleum hair renewer Carboline, Liberty Daylight Liver Pills, and Uncle Sam’s Nerve and Bone Liniment as cures for summer complaints, liver issues, headaches, malarial fever, rheumatism, and injuries.
A Somerville man recalls severe lung illness in 1376 and a hospital stay after losing appetite and weight. He credits Dr. William Hanus Balsam with a dramatic recovery from consumption, asserting the remedy cured him and urging others with damaged lungs to try it.
A horse race feature ends with a steeple chase and praise for St Jacobs Oil as a remedy for horses. Philadelphia Easy Hour cites its use for sprains and abrasions. Livery stable owner David Walton reports a valuable horse fully recovered in under a week after treatment.
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