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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1888
Page
3
A Forest and Stream writer recalls a 15 foot shark that marauded lines and devoured fish, then collapsed after a pilot fed it chopped tobacco pressed into a roll and tossed into the water. The creature convulsed, vomited blood, and drifted away as the current carried it off.
A fragmented, era-tinged reflection contrasts women’s instinctive grace under pain with men’s obliviousness. The piece plays on social roles, theater, and the unseen fatigue of illness, suggesting women endure with poised restraint while men misread the signals.
A room can be clarified by placing a pitcher of water to absorb respired gases over hours, leaving air purer while the water becomes filthy with carbonic acid and ammonia. Colder water stores more gas, a pint per pail at ordinary temperature, more when cooled to ice, making ice-room water unusable.
A New York Sun quip warns of dangerous lessons for youth as Taucle Rastus tells Dolphus to use a light pencil for writing and cautions that education might be perilous to the stomach and to the child. The colorful dialect tone underscores a cautionary, humorous lesson on harmful habits and schooling.
The Detroit Presse notes a humorous exchange about a man who has buried fifteen wives and Mrs Hobbs reacting with disbelief, clarifying the joke by calling the undertaker. The fragment suggests a comic interaction in a local column.
A fragment from the Gamerville Journal notes the hired man’s weariness as he rests, with stray phrases about barge thyme and weathered blades. The text includes garbled lines and nonsensical segments, reflecting a damaged OCR page with unclear names and places.
A father and son quarrel over a planned expenditure. The son seeks twenty dollars for a prize fight ticket mistaken for gambling. The father condemns gambling and extravagant shows and refuses the money, citing moral and financial ruin. The exchange hints at a theater box and other temptations.
Augustus Sala recalls on his Australian trip how the ship's doctor cared for bronchitis and spasmodic asthma during a violent sea swell. A warm tropic climate and Anbooenk’s Porous Plaisters on the chest and between the shoulder blades helped restore his health.
The Royal Deaf Mate Asylum director in Copenhagen reports that boys’ weight gain varies by season not due to local temperatures but aligns with global average temperatures. From August to December weight increases are three times that of December to April, with most gains in the latter lost by July. The data suggest an unknown sun-derived "energy of growth" influencing life regardless of weather.
A finance editor laments a shortage of sin bills while a baseball writer dismisses the issue as pointless. The Tuise-balk editor sighs over compiling statistics on probable cash selling prices of players next year, naming Chico Pribirne amid the discussion.
Change of Time effective Sunday November 1 K leaves Dearborn Station Chicago at p m bound for Nashville arriving at 7 15 am the next morning. Train offers Sleep ing Car and First class Couches through to Nashville with direct connections to Louisville and Nashville Jr for Decatur Birmingham Montgomery New Orleans and to Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railway for Chattanooga Atlanta Savannah Augusta Charleston and Southeast. For details contact WrtaM Hin General Seer and Ticket Agent Chicago and Eastern Ulingis RH Chicago TN.
The Golstremtate Special is a weekly Pullman vestibule car train run by Union and Central Pacific Roads and Pullman Company. Starting December 5 it travels between Council Bluffs and San Francisco with electric lighting, separate bath rooms for ladies and gentlemen, barber shop, observation and smoking rooms, and a female attendant for ladies and children. Fare includes everything ticket berth and meals.
A letter to the editor claims a cure for epilepsy with a free sample bottle and treatise offered to any reader who sends a P O address. The author, RR Roo M C, asserts the remedy has cured thousands and provides 183 Pearl Street, New York, as contact.
A holiday gift suggestion touts a ladies and centremen's watch from the R W Kears Watch Co as a desirable present. The rest notes a Santa Fe church bell cast in 1356 and carried by Indians after Cortez, plus altar pieces over 700 years old, and a closing remark on labor and prudence.
A ragbag of antiquated curiosities shows warts cured by charms or bacon fat on a southern sunlit post, a Paris youth swallowing raw eyes with a tale of a chicken, Florida river bones, dubious tonics, and quack remedies. The fragment hints at a public taste for superstition and sensational cures amid midwestern journal miscellany.
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