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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1883
Page
3
A Newark man showcases a full process for producing artificial eggs, claiming daily outputs of about a thousand eggs per hour. He explains yolk and white mixtures, skin, and a plaster shell, and notes the eggs taste like real ones and can be kept for years.
Scientists Prof William H Brewer and Francis E Nipher study American trotting horse speeds from 1843 to 1882. They conclude the ultimate constant speed is around 1 mile in 92 seconds, with potential variance toward 100 seconds. Predictions place a 460 year approach to this limit, suggesting future horses may exceed natural trotting speeds. The note contrasts natural gait with artificial trotting and cites a Texan pacer as an example.
The article argues that fishing preceded agriculture as the mainstay of early human life. It asserts fish were immediately usable for food, unlike cultivated plants, and that hunting and fishing formed the foundation of early society, with fishing likely the more continuous and vital of the two pursuits.
A curious circumstance linked six men, two each from New York, Boston and Philadelphia, who appeared together. The incident notes their unexpected simultaneity and raises questions about the connection behind the coincidence.
A New York Times correspondent prescribes boiling water to scour ant nests outdoors and in closets and sugarmholds, followed by sanitation steps like salt on shelves and red pepper in cracks. The piece mixes home pest guidance with a rustic rhyme about St. Jacobs Oil curing injuries, illustrating era attitudes.
A humorous excerpt from Texas Siftings features a defendant in a drunkenness case who refuses to plead, insisting he denies everything and even denies being present. The judge jibes that self denial is best practiced in jail for thirty days while another line comments on commendation and flattery. The snippet ends with an Alabama note praising Brown's Iron Bitters as a good appetizer.
A period advertisement style piece extols plain toil over genius, arguing steady labor builds value to the community. It notes doctors and tonics, warnings about drastic purgatives, and praises iron tonics and liver health products amid a flow of various product pitches and personal testimonials.
A Maine Central Railroad locomotive engineer with twenty years on the job reports chronic kidney and urinary issues from engine vibration and an earlier internal injury. After trying Hunt's Remedy, he notes sharp relief from the first bottle and complete cure after ten bottles, urging fellow rail workers and the public to consider it.
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