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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1885
Page
3
The piece humorously advises writers to sleep long hours and eat abundantly, arguing rest sustains brain power and creativity. It mocks rushed routines and ties literary success to steady meals, naps, and careful work hours, with a closing note referencing Lieut. Schwatka.
The author extols goat products from Asia Minor including milk butter and cheese and savors kid meat roasted to perfection. He compares it to lamb and chicken and notes the joy of eating fried eel with anchovy sauce near the Thames and seasonal whitebait. Washington Corres. Chicago Tribune.
The Chilcat people in the Archipelago earned a fierce reputation among tribes, surpassing Southern Hudson in strength, numbers, intelligence, and wealth. Disease was rare among Chilcats, and prostitution faced death penalty under their laws. The text begins to describe their marriage practices.
A narrator recalls attempting to identify a man named Helracker in a southern town. He finds an old woodworker who uses a hearing box and a hose to hear, but the device fails. After loud shouts and laughter, the man explains, and the narrator realizes the box yields little relief from his own shouting.
A ranting Chicago Communist spoke on wealth inequality to a crowd. During fiery diatribes about labor claiming the capital of the rich, a passerby demanded the speaker’s gold watch. The speaker claimed he bought it, but the crowd member persisted, saying he should give up the watch since he has none, and the meeting broke up.
A Boston physician argues insanity rises from uric acid in blood due to kidney failure and stomach issues. He cites Dr. Hopkins from Vermont who, after using Warner's safe cure, recovered and remained well for three years, urging prevention and treatment to avert mental collapse.
A Hindoo woman in the Times of India column condemns enforced widowhood and social exile. She contrasts the fates of six and sixty year old widows, detailing hair cutting, loss of ornaments, coarse dress, and taboo from festive life. She cites a grandfather who sends a ten year old to bless his years and a granddaughter forced into perpetual austerity.
The article describes automated match production from sawing wood into inch blocks to twelve-per-stroke cutting, perforated metal guides for round matches, and a 250 foot double chain carrying splints to sulphur and phosphorus vats. It notes vast output, six matches per person daily in Europe and North America, and credits machinery with reducing phosphorus fumes and worker mortality.
Belgian researcher M Stroobant conducted experiments with ceiling and eye level star pairs to test why planets and stars appear larger. He found misperception alters apparent angular distance, with horizon angles magnified compared to zenith by roughly 7.5 to 81.5 times, suggesting eye physiology as the factor.
The New York Commercial Bulletin notes fires destroy about 105 million dollars in U.S. property yearly, a monstrous loss equating to a nation’s earnings. The piece questions arson trends while musing on heartbreak and life as a stormy voyage from childhood.
A Times-Star item reports a winter discovery addressing public health concerns. It claims Red Star Cough Cure cures threat and lung troubles without morphine or opium, endorses by Maryland officials, Delaware chemist, and various hospitals, priced at twenty five cents a bottle.
Farmer Penuckle of Orange County recalls a Brooklyn wine clerk past and a near loss of furniture to the sheriff over installment bills. His wife, famed as a fine farmer’s wife, kept crape on the door to scare away the sheriff. Minnie survived, and the couple later cleared the debt and stopped buying on installments.
The article notes only three printers errors exist in all English Revised Bible editions and offers a guinea reward to Oxford Bible discoverers for unrevealed mistakes. It also quotes Literary World on thoughts as enemies and cautions to keep thoughts virtuous to prevent bad ones from entering.
A jumble of claims for Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, Walker’s Vinegar Bitters, and Althaephoros, plus carriage makers Hotchkin Carriage Works, Gault House hotel in Chicago, The Army Incidents in The Chicago Ledger, and various tonic and shoe products. The page markets health cures, tonics, and consumer goods with scant cohesive news content.
A fragmented OCR excerpt shows a Wall Street operator described as savvy and ironic. It mentions Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and Dr. Pierce’s Nasal Louche as claimed cures, with references to a Buffalo based World's Dispensary Medical Association and a stray burglar analogy. Additional lines hint at Howe Scales and catalogues from Borden Selleck & Co in Chicago.
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