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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1886
Page
3
Theodore Roosevelt recounts riding to hounds at Sagamore Hill as he measures jumps on foot. The 10 mile hunt over sixty fences, highest five feet six inches, includes falls and injuries but ends with reflections on safety and skill. The piece ends with a quoted romantic pledge from Cornhill Magazine.
A historic note on the pen's rise from luxury novelty to mass tool, tracing early steel pens from 1810 to James Perry's 1824 innovations and labor costs. It also surveys Balzac's life with Mme de Hanska, linking his relentless work to love, culminating in their 1850 marriage.
The New York Ledger paid high sums to prominent writers to attract readers. Tennyson received 5000 dollars for twenty lines, Dickens 3000 for a six-column sketch, Edward Everett 10000 for weekly pieces, and Beecher 30000 for Norwood. Some authors earned vast per-line rates for exclusive contracts.
The Washington Capital notes the President’s practice of receiving new money in salary payments of 4 166.66 monthly and a private account with Riggs & Co. The article highlights his frugal lifestyle, saving plans, and a private balance reportedly reaching 35000, contrasting with prior presidents and his own prior earnings.
Two sisters from a prominent Washington family reveal long hidden tattoos on their cheeks done in their youth by a sailor at the naval station. The brick-dust hue and bold appearance shocked many, though the sisters regret the act now. One sister is married, the other still single, both from well-known lineages with generations in the capital.
A historical note refutes beef tea, gelatine, milk, and eggs as universal nutrients for the sick. It warns against forced diets, overreliance on cheese, and rigid menus. Emphasizes listening to the stomach and offering concentrated foods while respecting patient cravings and tolerances.
A man in a San Francisco Chronicle tale collapses in an easy chair with a letter from Jane, discovering his proposal to Jennie was made at a reception during champagne enthusiasm. He plans to create a quarrel to break the engagement and avoid an unwelcome wedding.
The Omaha Herald recounts a prominent citizen berating a reporter for poking into private affairs. He calls journalists vampires and claims one man skipped to Canada with $75,000. The figure asks if laws should curb such intrusions and vows to stop the paper.
In Texas Siftings a humorous tale questions honesty through Mose Schaumberg and Gilhooly as a test using a ten dollar bill to prove Sam’s honesty. The exchange ends with a cautionary note about risk and folly, while a Shakespearean aside links bay trees with misfortune.
A historic notice touts the Grand Union Motel opposite Grand Central Depot offering 613 rooms and a one million dollar fitout. It highlights baggage handling, carriage hire, and daily tat and award routines with elevated rail access to all depots and claims families can live better for reasonable money at the Grand Union Hotel than any other first class hotel in the city.
A Venice newspaper claimed counterfeiters fled, but revealed its reporter and officials linked to the gang. Commissioner Laporta and police chief Sig Gerardi are depicted as longtime insiders. The piece ends noting St Jacobs Oil as a claimed remedy amid the muddled affair.
Professor Iglesias argues Mexican coast climate skews barometrical data and that Mount Orizaba surpasses Popocatapetl as North America’s highest peak. Orizaba towers above central plateau hills and pine coast range, visible from Gulf mariners, exceeding Mont Blanc by about two thousand feet. Red Star Cough Cure praised by Dr Cox as harmless and effective, price twenty five cents.
A historical sketch describes King Philip II’s fleet of 130 ships, including 65 galleons and four colossal galliasses, with 2,500 cannons and 2,000 enslaved rowers, in the attempted invasion of England under Queen Elizabeth I. The rest discusses digestion tips touting Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a remedy for dyspepsia and related ailments.
A fragment from a Michigan man recalls a theater visit to show his wife he attended. The text also references old timey quips about Dr. Pierce’s pills and a cartoonish defense exchange in court, followed by ads for Rough on Rats and Juniper’s Tar Soap.
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription is described as a potent specific for chronic weaknesses peculiar to women rather than a universal cure all. The note promotes his Diseases Peculiar to Women, a large treatise available for 10 cents in stamps from Womtbs Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo NY. It also advertises a booklet for 10 cents and cites miscellaneous notes about Bizarre quips and medical claims.
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