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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1886
Page
3
An essay argues immortality is a breath and fame fades. It lauds Shakespeare as a man who lived for present patrons, not posterity, and warns against scholarly claims of Bacon authorship. It extols doing one’s duty now and leaving future memory to merit, not to seek it.
A harsh critique of parental mistreatment and broken promises that harm children. The piece recalls several scenes where adults frighten, lie to, or neglect kids, warning that such moral injury can be as damaging as physical harm and may lead to lasting fear, distrust, and tragedy.
The account recalls a 19th century trek to California led by women and ox teams trudging through hardship. A memory from those days resurfaced when a modern baggage man and transfer line left a lasting imprint of the number 51, softening the old scars.
A satirical critique on marriage roles contrasts male fatigue with female social demands. The piece argues husbands deserve respect, while urging wives to ease their husbands' daily burdens and seek shared leisure when possible. It frames the reform as a playful advocacy by Lachange for marital balance.
A millionaire Bellar's son in Rome seeks a traveling companion after ads invite candidates to a house dinner. At dessert the mother feigns poisoning the pineapple cream to test nerve. One guest panics, another invalidly frets, the third seeks a doctor, then the signora reveals the ruse and selects the survivor to accompany her son.
A family rents out a furnished house with a large dog. An old lady tenant loves a comfy drawing room chair the dog also claims. She calls cats from the window to make him yield the chair, but one day the dog blocks the chair first then sits in it when she looks.
A 1342 tale from Orwell Township Bradford County Pennsylvania tells of Hezekiah North West a farmer who killed two deer with a single bullet. After the first deer the bullet circled the hill and killed the second, a claim some doubt but the narrator asserts as true.
The Chicago Herald notes racing is expensive with stables and staff costs. It cites $40 to $75 daily for a dozen horses, trainers wages, foreman, grooms, feed, entry fees, and jockey salaries. Ike Murphy earns up to $15,000 yearly plus bonuses. Duffy $5,000. Jockeys ride dangerous, high risk work with many accidents, bolting and uncontrollable horses.
A Detroiter visits Harper's Ferry and questions locals about John Brown the abolitionist. The exchanges reveal uncertainty about Browns identity and actions while a bystander expresses curiosity to learn more about the insurrection and its causes.
A yellowish coat on the tongue signals biliousness linked to hot weather and autumn ailments. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is urged to prevent stomach and bowel issues, relieve bile obstruction, restore digestion, and alleviate rheumatism fever and kidney troubles.
A Monroe North Carolina child named Fairfax Payne cut and sold her hair to raise funds for an unfinished church. Her offering, sent to Harper's Young People, inspired early donations from northern readers totaling over $200 as reports spread.
Murphy and Gus debate horoscopes with Murphy claiming engagements from crab influence. Mr Gro W Watts of Union Pacific Freight in San Francisco praises Red Star Cough Cure, noting no opiates used for coughs and colds.
Important guidance notes on travel to New York City advise saving baggage and expressage costs and paying $3 carriage hire. Guests may stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot with 613 rooms fitted at about one million dollars. Elevators, restaurant, horse care, stages and elevated rail service connect to all depots. The hotel promotes lower living costs for families compared to other first class hotels.
A reflection on knowing when to stop across preaching storytelling moralizing and speech. Anecdotes warn that restraint could improve reception and reduce harm. The piece contrasts excess with prudent silence and public retreat, then cites rheumatism cure with St Jacobs Oil and notes the sense of smell and osmic therapy ideas. It ends with a historical nod to Hahnemann.
A young man, rejected by a woman, paid a cent to her sister. He remarked on their shared features while visiting the first evening, and she quipped that they share the same woes. The rejected suitor has since stopped calling at the house.
Pale emaciated with coughing and night sweats. claim of cure by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Ad promotes investment scam style “new wonder” with Portland Maine contact Hallett & Co. Promises earnings from $5 to $25 daily and immediate business startup with free particulars.
An advertisement page promoting Wells Health Renewer and Wells Heart Renewer as cures for dyspepsia malaria nervous debility and other ailments. Includes claims for appetite digestion strength and organ support and promotes Rough on Rats Rough on Corns and Men’s Man’s Peptonized Beef Tonic with Caswell Hazard & Co New York as proprietors and druggists selling the products.
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