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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1871
Page
1
Advertisement for Helmbold’s Compound Fluid Extract Catawba Grape Pills claiming they aid liver complaints, jaundice, biliary issues, headaches, and constipation. Emphasizes no mercury or minerals, pleasant taste, non sugar-coated, prepared by pharmacy rules, and not patent medicine. Describes transformative energizing effects after several days.
An advertisement touts a blood purifying preparation meant to eradicate a long list of diseases from scrofula to cancerous affections. It promises superior efficacy versus other tinctures, restores health and complexion, and claims to purify blood and cure pains, ulcers, eruptions, and skin issues with wealth and purity as outcomes.
An extensive advertisement extols Hoofland's German Bitters as a non alcoholic tonic and bitters, claiming extracts from German roots and herbs, with a combined Bitters and Santa Cruz Rum Tonic. It touts liver and digestive benefits, lists numerous symptoms, and promotes quick relief, urging purchases through the German Medicine Store in Philadelphia and dealers nationwide. It also markets Dr. Helmholtz Preparations, including Buchu extracts, Rosewash, and diabetes cures, with claims of universal efficacy and global distribution.
The notice details subscription rates of 200 dollars annually in advance, 250 after six months, and 300 if unpaid to year end. It lists ad rates by column, with payments due in advance for transients and on delivery for job work. It also explains discontinuance, arrearage implications, and double pricing for local column ads.
A collection of maxims on wisdom, wealth, pride, patience, and human folly. It weaves admonitions about prudence in speech and action, caution in trust, and the contrast between poor and rich, noting that fortune and judgment shape life. The tone resembles a late historic compendium of satirical secular wisdom.
In Windham County Vermont a widower seeking help at a rural home is offered six daughters for a wife. He selects the most presentable, marries that night at the justice, and brings his bride home as a permanent housekeeper with no wage limits or questions on work.
The five large San Francisco hotels posted annual receipts totaling 3 million dollars while their combined cost stood at 4.8 million dollars. A Quebec man accompanies his remark with a smile that would honor a Nubian crocodile.
The Commissioner of Pensions will issue instructions for bounty land warrants. Surviving persons in several classes may receive 160 acres, if properly mustered since 1790 to 1855. Indians who served prior to the Civil War are included. If a decedent left a widow or minor children, they may receive the same land, and a widow remarriage does not forfeit rights. Substitutes’ payers are entitled, and minors under 21 in 1865 are considered.
An elder village lady, eager for science, praises telegraph speed and fire safety. She boasts understanding electricity yet asks how messages pass the poles, prompting a humorous station master explanation from Mr K who offers to enlighten her. The anecdote highlights curiosity and misapprehension around early telegraph technology.
Early measurement updates reduce the mean depth of the North Atlantic from 12 500 feet to 9 900 feet after more detailed soundings. The change reflects improved surveying methods and data refinement.
An unclearOCR fragment describes a figure speaking with two Wisconsin farmers, misfiring actions as he hurls eight stones toward a woman, then removes his hat while tending a cow. The snippet captures a rustic, confused scene without clear outcomes or locations.
In fighting along the Rhine frontier, German forces pressed into French territory, advancing into disputed areas as Allied positions held the line and reported the engagement near key crossings.
A Royal Academy preview scene shows Constable praising Stanfield’s sky while critiquing Reinagle. When Reinagle initially says nothing, Constable sends him to view the painting. Reinagle later exclaims the sky is pleasing, though he had been told it looked like putty. Stanfield confronts Constable about the conflicting judgments.
A Kentucky minister plagued by nervous headaches was treated by Major Brown of Mexico. The cure, claimed since 1852, uses a dessert spoon of common soda dissolved in a quart of cold water to wash the head for five minutes, then rinse. The method, not for stomach‑related headaches, allegedly relieves in five to ten minutes.
Two Boston men argued on a busy street corner over a bill for work done. One man, after a heated exchange, reframed the issue with a sharp quip about choosing to be paid well for effort rather than being a “good fellow” who gets kicked. The remark captures a blunt business ethic quoted from the Boston Herald.
A mid 19th century sermon argues constant busy work ensures happiness, warns wealth and ease bring decay, and urges contentment with one's lot for true enjoyment. It notes diligent labor calms fears of market fluctuations and ends with a troubling, racially charged incident in Charleston and a directive for Ku Klux investigators to note it.
The latest edict from English ritualists requires priests to celebrate at the north of the altar. The directive confines ceremonial placement and may affect traditional liturgical practice.
In twenty three years immigrants have sent 81,670,000 dollars in gold to Europe through banks and commercial houses. The figures reflect substantial remittance activity by immigrant communities across decades.
A bald headed man faced描述 accusations about an unusually long forehead that allegedly stretched from his brow to the back of his neck.
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