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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1871
Page
1
Medical advertisement for Helmbold’s Compound Fluid Extract and Catawba grape pills. Claims to treat liver complaints jaundice bilious affections and nervous headache. Promotes as vegetable with no mercury minerals or deleterious drugs.
A medicinal claim promotes Helmbold s Compound Fluid Extract Catawba Grape Pills as a pleasant purgative superior to castor oil and salts. The pills are not sugar coated and are said to pass stomach acids intact, providing tone without nausea or pain and delivering noticeable revitalization after several days.
An 19th century advertisement extols a blood purifier to radically exterminate scrofula syphilis fever sores ulcers sore eyes chronic rheumatism and many chronic illnesses. It promises improved complexion health and purity and claims to cleanse blood and cure pains and swelling of bones throat legs clots pimples erysipelas and skin eruptions.
Advertisement proclaims Henry T. Helmbold’s kidneys bladder and prostate remedies cure many ailments. Claims estrogen of vitae and diabetes relief, with Buchu extract and rosewash touted for urinary and skin benefits. Depots listed in New York and Philadelphia, warnings against counterfeits.
An advertisement extols Dr Hooflands remedies including Pedophyllia as a mercury substitute and a tonic duo with Bitters and Tonic. It claims German grown ingredients, no alcohol, strong liver and digestive benefits, and lists wide disease claims from liver complaints to kidney and skin issues. Sold by Druggists nationwide from the German Medicine Store in Philadelphia.
The Season reprints Ephraim Muggins's polemic praising woman’s rights and equality. He pledges to champion female suffrage and liberty, arguing against centuries of oppression and envisioning a future led by women in politics, business, and society.
A rustic guide warns readers to respect editors and own town papers. It advises sending name with submissions, avoiding door rapes, not loitering or knocking down type, and not demanding authors. It urges readers to preview proof sheets cautiously, prefer local papers, and pay in advance for prosperity.
The piece laments homelessness born of thrift failure and dissipated habits. It contrasts the stable home of sober citizens with the homeless man who seeks shelter in station houses and outbuildings, noting the loss of family, confidence, and ambition.
In San Francisco an elder killed a younger man after a dispute over joss reverence. Ah Chew struck Ah Wah with a cudgel. Ah Chew drew a knife and killed Ah Wah. Also noted is a Birmingham rope six miles long and five and a quarter inches in circumference weighing over sixty tons. The Springfield Republican’s remark about using the rope to lift Gen Butler is deemed too brief by the Courier-Journal.
The passage notes a playful counterclaim to the belief that dark-haired women wed first. It also references a group called the Infant Sons of Love, described as a Richmond youth organization among young colored boys.
A fragment from a Chicago Post piece describes the intricate production of a watch component as 600 workers craft each piece, with 80 hands handling a single part. It details a hair spring weighing a mere 1/1500 pound, a one foot straight length, and 18 609 cycles per hour, plus the jewel setting and diamond dust used in finishing.
Mrs Laura Curtis Batlard recalls Baroness Coutts being misled by clerks in Paris who used the phrase two ten as a password. The shopper learns in the end it meant to watch her ten fingers, revealing the clerks suspected the rich Briton of shoplifting.
The Mont Cenis tunnel now formally opened forms a seven and four-fifths mile route through alternating schist limestone and gypsum. It runs 3 480 feet below the mountain crest creating a direct railway from Calais through Southern France to Brindisi. Begun in 1857 by Sardinia the project is to cost about 15.6 million dollars with French contributions of 20 million francs plus 5.5 million francs. Masonry is reported excellent and no ventilation shafts were sunk despite lacking mephitic air.
A Milwaukee stringer recalls a photographer who declines to enter the fair spotlight. He ridicules the premiums noting high prizes for sun pictures and second rate jackasses, reflecting skepticism about the event's photography prizes.
The passage mocks the saying about contentment and argues that men forever crave more. It suggests those who are satisfied are either fools or unable to acquire more, noting increased desire with age and shrinking grip on wealth. The text seals with a playful signoff.
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