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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1892
Page
3
A compact sales note extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for indigestion heartburn and gastric discomfort. It claims relief from stomach pain liver activation and regular bowel action while touting benefits against malaria rheumatism kidney complaints neurabia and nervousness.
A compilation of vintage ad snippets notes satisfaction guarantees and remedies. It mentions Dr Bull's Cough Syrup praised for decades, Beecham's Pills priced at 25 cents, a water wheel in a Comstock mine poised for high revolutions, and an albumen paper industry using millions of eggs yearly. It also reports Louis Narouron dying in exile at Chislehurst England.
The piece reviews a long Dutch effort in Northern Sumatra against Acheen, detailing persistent fighting, reduced aggressiveness, and Dutch control of the coast. It notes Acheen’s decaying empire, local commune governance, and Britain’s bargaining in prior colonial exchanges. It also contrasts walking with other exercises for women, favoring walking as safest and most beneficial.
A proposed bill on depopulation of France faces criticism for targeting bachelors with a progressive tax while offering a sliding scale reduction based on the number of children in a family. The plan would tax single men more while easing burdens as families grow, sparking debate on demographic policy.
A report from an Indian province recounts a cowherd of the Ahir caste who dropped a calf and it died. Brahmans condemn him to six months of excommunication, mendicancy with rope, pilgrimage to shrines, and isolation for his family. He must be purified by rites, hair and nails burned, a grass hut, a low caste purifier, a river plunge, then a grand feast to regain caste fellowship.
An antiquated Russian custom on Whit Monday gathers mercantile youth in Saint Petersburg where young women, richly dressed with mothers behind, are paraded for gaze and courtship. Eight days later, families arrange formal alliances. A separate tale recounts Sioux moon legends and a Belfast wife’s lawn mower revolt.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad markets its “Chicago and Nashville Limited” as the fastest, most comfortable path from Chicago to Florida Gulf Coast resorts. It boasts heated cars, Pullman sleepers, and a dining car with top cuisine. Also notes Sunday laws in Germany and a Catarrh Cure advertisement.
A garbled column blends wedding toast, a pig feast idea, and stray ads. It touts Ely's Cream Balm for nasal catarrh with testimonials from Arcola Illinois and Corn ing New York, then shifts to anecdotes about superstition in Chicago and various remedies and curiosities.
The poster promotes the Wisconsin Central Lines on the Chicago to St Paul Minneapolis Duluth and Northwest route. It touts two daily fast trains from Chicago with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing Room Sleepers and Couches of latest design. Dining car service is described as unsurpassed and the route claims exclusive access to Pacific Coast travel with both Pullman Vestibuled first class and Pullman Tourist Cars from Chicago via St Paul without change. Pamphlets available free from ticket agents or Jas. Ponp, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago.
A Boston Transcript correspondent notes a blunder where "potent nec tar" read as "potent nectar" and "A potent medicine for gods and men" was misprinted as "A patent medicine." The episode plus a separate typo in Aldrich’s poem "Now the old wound breaks out afresh" replacing "woman" with "afresh" amused readers.
The Boston Globe notes a page article urging readers to mail a two cent stamp for a copy to Betina Circulating Library in Chicago. A North Carolina man reportedly smokes a clay pipe daily for 25 years. Mentions Small Bite Beans and Japan's first railroad in 1872.
A family describes two years of severe eczema in their children with three doctors unable to help. After trying Hood's Sarsaparilla for a month, the children were perfectly cured and the family highly recommends the remedy.
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