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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1892
Page
3
An advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for digestive and liver troubles, claiming it regulates the stomach bowels and liver, improves kidneys and blood, combats malaria and rheumatism, and aids appetite and sleep. It recommends a wineglassful three times daily for best results.
Henry Norman notes Japanese artisans as paragons of carefulness despite drift toward showy goods. He cites an ivory carver in a garden studio who, amid chiseling a tusk, estimates four months to complete a graceful female figure. Also mentions Greenville company superintendent W. J. McDonand and Bradycrotine headache relief from all druggists.
A fragment from a 19th century issue quotes a maiden and youth exchange on wages "Four dollars a day" and lists various medicines. It includes ads for Hell's Catarrh Cure Druggists in Coudersport Pa HaLe's Honey of Horehound and Tar Pike's Toothache Cure and Dr Kline's Gentian Nerve Restorer with claims of cures and free trial bottles.
A dense excerpt argues comets and meteors shaped Earth's coal beds and planetary growth. It cites Prof Proctor on meteors striking the Earth and nebular ideas, proposes the moon as a former comet, and notes a March 18 1892 Texas meteor report. The piece ends with a satirical quip about women and beauty.
In Projestienten Hungary a knife grinder and a rag-picker claimed a Great Dane. A judge had the dog decide by behavior as both men whistled and the dog fled to its real owner, who had the dog before the court. The dog had been stolen by both men.
A London paper sought a definition of pluck and received many vivid answers. They describe pluck as silent endurance with cheerful energy, fearlessness, and the will to rise after setbacks. It is the heart of a lion in a man and the force behind heroic acts and enterprise.
Public Opinion notes shooting stars are small iron carbon meteoroids weighing a few pounds that move in solar orbits. They enter Earth's atmosphere at high speeds, heat to thousands of Celsius, and mostly vaporize to leave meteoric dust, contributing to Earth's substance annually.
An old writer notes a tradition that Noah, his sons and women prayed before the Lord as dawn broke in the Ark. The account is used to argue for the antiquity of separating sexes in places of worship, a practice still seen in eastern regions during times of distress.
A New York physician suffered a head injury and paralysis but recovered through trephination and expert care. The article notes brain surgery's promise, including infant skull procedures in Paris, with potential use for epilepsy and other brain disorders in the future.
The passage contrasts the True Laxative Principle behind Syrup of Figs with inferior vegetable extracts and minerals, urging use of the true remedy. It notes Beecham’s Pills as a recommended liver remedy and asserts false modesty as vanity, ending with a proverb about victory over the heart.
The clipping features testimonials praising August Flower for dyspepsia and constipation from J B Young in Harrodsburg Kentucky and J W Smith Townsend Ontario and a druggist C Rugh Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania. It also promotes Mrs Logan's University initiative and Aero's German Cough and Kidney remedy, urging readers to obtain them from local druggists as part of a health and education agenda.
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