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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1888
Page
3
A mixed compilation from a Detroit Free Press style segment includes humorous dialogue about hot weather and drinking, a satire on labor and politics, and a longexplanation of honeybee colony life. It covers lessons with playful exchanges, city ordinances, and a detailed bee lifecycle from queen to workers through seasons.
A dog tax official questions a Black planter about dogs tax status. The planter resists, citing limited ownership and challenging law. He accuses the investigator and political class of manipulation, voicing defiance and reflecting racial tensions. The excerpt ends with the traveler’s satirical commentary on nationalism.
The Philadelphia Times notes how common misattributions are for proverbs and quotes. It cites examples from Laurence Sterne to Pope and Franklin, correcting errors about where sayings truly originated and clarifying misremembered lines.
A San Francisco Chronicle opinion questions why a fair young daughter can become a tyrannizing mother-in-law. It speculates that married women feel dominated by husbands and seek revenge on their sons-in-law through their daughters, viewing daughters as bait for payback.
The Talavera de la Reina engagement on July 27 28 1809 pitted English and Spanish forces against the French. Wellington repelled the attack but had to retreat leaving wounded due to insufficient Spanish support.
The article describes Moorish dress where natives wear heavy haiks or silk robes in cold and hot weather. It notes European curiosity about garments and jewelry, the warmth of woolen veils, long pantaloons, and the impracticality of such attire in heat. It observes veil use and dignified bearing mask real form.
A Lincoln Journal critique notes that many poetry-educated women write of melancholy affairs and death. It laments excessive tears and funerary themes in verse and urges poets to prove cheer amid sorrow, citing lovers lost at sea, lingering grief, and a carnival of death as overdone motifs.
MAYVILLE NY December 2 1885 ex-sheriff L T Harrington endorses Allcock's Porous Pursu ments praising their breadth of usefulness and rapid relief for rheumatism backache bronchitis and other pains stating personal experience of speedy cures.
An old tale shows a schoolmaster silencing a mother with a chorus of multiplication tables. The piece then extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for bilious attacks, liver and stomach balance, malaria related issues, rheumatism, kidney trouble, dyspepsia, nervousness and debility after decades of use.
The excerpt discusses old home remedies for nosebleeds including turpentine fumes, tying a band, hot foot baths, mustard applications, and a liver-side plaster. It also notes English regiments testing a four-wheel center cycle to ease hill climbing and mentions the first cotton grown in the United States in 1621.
The piece extols the American ideal of brawn and brain without titles, likening the body to a regulated machine. It warns that life’s pace can exhaust the regulator, promotes log cabin days, and urges Warner’s Log Cabin sarsaparilla as a blood purifier to sustain vigor and prevent failure.
A Paris Academy note describes paradoxical deafness where speech is unheard in silence but heard amid noise. The condition is grave, progressive, sometimes hereditary, caused by labyrinth compression in the inner ear. Also reports on Renard’s lightweight balloon battery using platinized silver and zinc with acid electrolytes. Moxie claims widespread cures in women and former alcohol and tobacco cravings.
A promotional note offers a checkerboard, checkers, or a lamp shade in exchange for seven two cent stamps sent to James Barker at the Wisconsin Central in Milwaukee along with a copy of a card titled The Great Political Situation.
Dr. F L Pond reports successful cancer treatments at Aurora Illinois cancer hospital. Multiple cures cited. surrounding readers urged to seek treatment promptly. For information contact Dr F L Pond, Aurora IL.
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