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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1886
Page
3
A Chicago News note muses on canes from ancient staffs to modern fashion, tracing symbols of dignity from shepherds to Socrates and Romans, while speaking to social behavior and culture. The piece contrasts historic uses with contemporary vanity and ends noting cane etiquette in everyday life.
A man recalls mortgage schemes and a contested marriage that ended with a confrontation. He describes lending to a farming woman, foreclosing, and a later clash when she opened fire, taking possession and leaving him overwhelmed by local hostility.
A Buffalo Courier correspondent relays a Pittsburgh fur nishings clerk who says nine in ten dressers misbutton cuffs. The right method is to have cuffs mirror the coat sleeve with outer parts over the inner. Insert buttons at the correct cuff corners and pass wrists through accordingly for proper alignment.
The article describes a radiant golden brown skin glow on two young women seen in sunlight. It compares sunlit skin to absorbed light that reemits a phosphorescent glow, noting long garden hours, midday shade, and the unique beauty of sun-kissed human skin unlike any flower or gem.
Everett shares a confidential recipe to ensure a good appetite. The advice is simple yet striking: never eat the recipe with dinner. He cryptically adds that breakfasts and suppers are the proper times. The exchange hints at humor and camaraderie in a Lynn Union piece.
Elegant young women discuss a divorce case on a chic Chicago street. One narrator says she was completely prostrated by the wife's revelations in court and had to wait for adjournment, planning to return the next day. The piece also recalls a school quip about history repeating itself from Lowell Citizen.
The Saint Lazare women’s prison in Paris is run by nuns of St. Vincent de Paul. Filles are kept separate from felons with harsh discipline and a dungeon. Communication with the outside world is cut off and punishment is severe for language breaches. Red Star Cough Cure is touted as beneficial for throat and lung troubles at twenty five cents.
An eyewitness notes a roadside barber in Spain shaving tame donkeys and delivering clipped star patterns around necks. Barbers operate under harsh conditions as clients endure upright chairs, brass basins, and the feeling of degradation at the hands of the tyrant barber.
An old column extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safer, more effective treatment for rheumatism and related ailments. It claims early use halts disease progression and neutralizes the rheumatic virus in the blood, with benefits extending to neuralgia liver complaints indigestion chills fever debility and sleep and appetite promotion.
Jones and Smith joke about Col. Yerger failing to recognize friends on the street. They dismiss lime dust and rheumatism as causes and claim a Telegram from Washington last week indicating Senate confirmation of Yerger appointment explains his prideful behavior.
A novelty industry emerges with lampers who visit houses each morning to fill and trim lamps. Practice makes perfect, promising perfectly lit homes, well cared for lamps, and polished chimneys. The service is a comfort to housekeepers and offered at modest charges.
Brief sketch of Captain Bullwinkle founder and improver of Chicago fire patrols, now Arizona Cattle Company manager. A NY native born 1847, he joined Chicago fire service as a youth, led the patrol system, earned honors, married Angelica Moody, and later moved to Arizona. He also penned a ranch life tale in The Cascade Ledger with a serial in TrecaGO Ledger.
The piece argues the natural respiration rate guides poetry tempo, noting 16 to 24 breaths per minute and an average of 20, with about 20 lines read per minute so one breath per line. It cites Holmes and poets like Scott, Longfellow, and Tennyson and contrasts twelve syllables per line as tedious. It also mentions a derrick pole injury at the New Orleans Exposition and rapid relief from St Jacobs Oil.
In 1868 Peter Kern of Washington Township Pennsylvania kept a four foot eel in a yard well. The eel surfaces before rain, drawing harvest season inquiries from nearby farmers. The tale appears in the Philadelphia Record with other brief notices and ads from the era.
The Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot offers 618 rooms fitted at a cost of one million dollars with daily rates starting at $1. It promotes convenient baggage expressage elevator access and connections to horse cars stages and elevated railroad depots, asserting families can live better here than at any other first class hotel in the city.
A lawyer questions a witness about friendship with Jones, asserting lack of knowledge and challenging the credibility of claims of loyalty. The exchange spans ten years of association with no disputes, followed by a critique of backing a note at a bank. The piece ends with a misattributed Emerson quote about Spirit meaning wind and a note on windy harangues as spirited addresses.
An advertisement claims Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures eruptions pimples scrofula lungs and incipient consumption by purifying the blood toning the stomach and strengthening the body. It is described as a purely vegetable compound despite a Washington Critic remark about Pittsburgh fogs used to stuff pillows.
A long catalog of sensational health notices describes a woman once near death from female ailments who improved after using Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and local treatments. It also promotes home work schemes, pest remedies like Rough on Rats, Caswell Hazard Cod Liver Oil, and Wells’ Health Renewer claiming cures for dyspepsia malaria impotence nervous debility and wasting diseases.
An advertisement touts Wells Health Renewer as a direct aid to weak spots. It claims to bolster appetite digestion and strengthen stomach liver kidneys and bowels.
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