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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1887
Page
3
The Cara cantthus Academy professor Remington visits the Daily Horn editor to hear printers react to his humor filled article. Behind the paper stacks he hides as printers groan at lines about Caracanthus and jokes on race and labor. He slips away when asked to proofread his work.
A Philadelphia writer describes Crow practices to obtain eagle feathers for a head-dress. Two methods are noted: an eagle dance then pits with bait in the Big Horn Mountains, and high mountain ariel hunting with bow and arrow. The head-dress seen contained over two hundred feathers sewn to elk hide.
Tolstoi dismisses attachments as dismaying and classifies love into three forms: elegant love, devoted love, and active love. Elegant love centers on beauty and expression, often spoken of in French. devoted love sacrifices for the beloved without seeking personal gain. active love ardently seeks to satisfy all needs and even faults, often expressed awkwardly or not at all.
London Life notes peculiar customs across cultures revealing how politeness and respect differ. Europeans uncover the dead as reverence while Orientals keep heads covered. Turkish ambassadors retain their fez. Salutes vary by region and gender norms differ widely among Tibetans, Malays, Fijians, Tongas, and others.
A Georgia man riding to visit his fiancée discovers at a church funeral that his fiancé, who had died without telling him, lies in the bed of the departed. The tale warns young men against delaying on the way and against indiscriminate funeral attendance.
A nation wide group of ministers met on a stated day and began with prayer. In a twist at a brother's house with cigars, they drifted into other business. One recalls the lost prayer and another quips that incense has already been offered. In metallurgical news steel wire mats debut as tough corrosion resistant panels.
A reporter meets Mme Gray, a noted Oratory and Physical Culture teacher, discussing the Delsartian theory. She claims anyone can grow a full resonant voice and improve health and figure through training, with caveats about injuries and kidney disease. Mme Gray teaches at the Syracuse School of Oratory and Physical Culture.
London Times reports General Strelbitski’s findings on Europe’s area and population. Europe totals 6,233,060 square miles with Russia holding 3,423,185 and Russia's population at 94,000,000, far outpacing others. Europe’s total population near 350,000,000 with varying densities, Russia rising by 1,250,000 yearly.
A mistresses asks to go out Monday evening but Nora objects, citing social plans and a full house. They arrange to unmake engagements, notify friends, and coordinate dinners for Wednesday Thursday and Friday, with many family and neighbors expected.
The article reports M Thore claiming a new force in the human organism causes rotating cylinders when close to them, while William Crookes suggests heat radiation from the observer explains the motion. The piece also notes a large English wind motor powering flouring machinery with a multi-story building and substantial output.
Advice on gaining weight through Scott's Emulsion with Hypophosphites after meals. Promoted as palatable and digestible for delicate people and useful for consumption throat issues and bronchitis. Includes testimonials and unrelated quotes about health routines and temperance.
A notice from Rondout New York promotes Doctor David Kenneny’s medical treatise praising its merit and home value. It includes two articles by Col Ned Buntline and offers a free copy by mail with payment of postage, price listed as 25 cents. Also mentions Wisconsin Central Line trains with fast through service and Pullman cars between Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Minneapolis. Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffener advertised as boot reform.
The ad lists chronic nasal catarrh symptoms and links them to consumption, claiming Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures many cases. It advertises a $500 reward for an uncured case, notes the price as 50 cents, and includes a poem promoting Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for beauty and health concerns.
Letter to the editor by T A Slocum of New York claims a positive cure for consumption and promises two free bottles to readers who supply their express and postal addresses. He provides 181 Pearl Street as his address and signs M C.
The Companion and its enlarged holiday issues offer colored covers full-page illustrations and twenty pages each for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Free delivery to pew subscribers who send 1.75 for a year’s subscription to Dunnary 1889, with other weekly issues available through January 1, 1888.
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