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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1886
Page
3
A disillusioned editor in a decaying office imagines a grand future with a new banking post and a larger newspaper but wakes to poverty. He watches wealth pass him by as a rival arrives with a wealthy life while he becomes a tramp, with a snowy street scene outside the window.
A Rochester Post-Hepress interview recounts promoters claiming Warner's safe cure clears kidney and liver damage from narcotics and stimulants. It cites Dr J L Stephens and others applauding the remedy, while noting vast drug use worldwide and urging liver kidney health as the key to breaking habits. The piece ends with hotel ads and Grand Union Hotel details in New York.
A physician recalls a fearless soldier who lost his foot stopping a cannon ball in battle. The piece mentions a cruel English pastime with toads and the old miracle play, noting a three shilling A SAVE versus ten pence Ox price comparison.
The piece traces the etymology of lady from the Anglo-Saxon l wdfdige meaning bread-keeper and hlefdige from hlaf and weardian. It contrasts usefulness with modern views, then examines gentleman from gens, and surveys historical medical ligature methods, Neapolitan art, and an astronomy anecdote about M. Strobaut’s star brightness observations delayed by the Oregon’s sinking and later recovered.
A Boston Courier fragment notes that social standing can include gamblers and lottery managers, while a later health ad praises Scavenger kidneys and Bladder as vital cleansers. It extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for renal health and lists Caswell Hazard Calisava Elixir as a top tonic for indigestion and fevers.
Advertisement notes that debts to nature must be paid on demand unless grace is obtained via Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It claims cures for scrofula and lung diseases and praises Favorite Prescription for debility in women. Also mentions Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for colds and coughs and Brown's Bronchial Troches for bronchial issues.
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