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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1884
Page
3
A vivid portrait of Tunisian flower culture, perfumes and aromas from roses to amber. Observations describe the cherished perfumes in markets, houses, and personal adornment, noting fragrant ivory boxes, jasmine and sandalwood rituals, and the romantic aura of Oriental scenes. A final note mentions a political telegram about Wright and Dallas.
A Pittsburgh Gazette note recounts varied snake bite remedies from amateurs, including whisky, live chicken applications, lion root and rattlesnake violet tea and salve, salt and indigo poultice, a madstone, burial in earth, and a peculiar yearly swelling pattern linked to the bite. The piece emphasizes physician scarcity of effective treatments and anecdotes from numerous cases.
In 1844 a single world telegraph line connected Washington and Baltimore. The first major use announced Polk for president and Wright for vice president. Wright declined via telegram, prompting skepticism from Baltimore and even a New York neighbor who doubted the signature as a forgery until the message proved authentic.
Visitors in Boston Public Garden notice tasteful devices arranged around the Washington Monument. A Malaga Spanish commissioner provided designs including the crux ansata symbolizing eternal life from Egyptian tradition, the Alhambra coat of arms, St Peter’s arms, Boabdil’s sword, Washington’s cherry tree hatchet, a map of the Americas, and Cuba in a bid to spark biographical and historical study. the display is praised for its refinement.
In a note from Popular Science Monthly, H H Mathew Williams argues that oatmeal porridge improves with aging stored in a jar. He cites sweeter taste, softened fibers, and a seven dish weekly plan for digestibility, noting nine days as a practical limit before mold risk spoils the pudding.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle piece paints a vivid, macabre dormitory tableau as the sweet girl graduate has fled the campus scene, leaving broken garter, undarned stocking, and discarded trinkets to hint at a hungry heart seeking romance and social entry through catching beaux and freckles.
A French dramatic review argues actors should vary meals by role. Artichokes sentence speech avoiders, singers should inspect heads for deception, and the cat is 41's foe. Singers avoid sweets. basses and heavies favor game. raw roast beef with port suits heroes. ingenues skip heavy sauces. lovers avoid beef and onions. Don Juan and Hamlet roles imply no dining.
A short feature notes two letter stamps for a large self care treatise, addressed to the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York. It discusses letters H G and C as stand-ins for literary figures leaders and editors, mentioning Hawthorne Howells Herrick Halleck Howard H H Gladstone Granville Grevy Gambetta Grant Garfield Pall Mall Gazette Caesar Charlemagne Cromwell and the Cid. Saadi is quoted on silence and foreswearing ignorance. The piece ends with a call to see right and to do right.
A Berkshire village setting hosts the Travelers' Retreat inn run by the scheming Minklers. Mrs Prescott and her son Ralph arrive seeking rest, while other fragments describe a tense household and a foreword about church presence in the South versus North. The piece advertises a Chicago Ledger serial.
Ralph Prescott discovers a barefooted girl named Alice scrubbing stairs in a village hall. She hides her last name, defends her pride, and admits a love of learning from an old spelling-book given by a kind lady. She fears punishment from Dame Minkler for studying alone.
An assortment of patent medicines and home remedies are described, including Acid Phosphate praised by Dr Ellis of Wabash Indiana for a man abstaining from alcohol, claims of Kidney-Wort as a powerful tonic, and various assertions about eye strain, blood purification, and skin or digestion aids. Also mentions Butter Color and Cremation as public topics, with several brand names and vendor attributions.
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Company reports reaching No 150 000 in regular production. Since 1854 the firm has averaged 5 000 organs per year and 100 weekly for 1 590 weeks, with shipments worldwide and current annual output between 10 000 and 15 000 organs. A Louisiana man claims nine bottles of Hill's Balsam for the Lungs cured him after doctors thought him near death.
A collage of mid-1800s postal and newspaper style ads touts ELECTRO-VOLI TAL appliances for male vitality, Compound Oxygen cures, Athlophoros tonic, Cod Liver Oil, Ely’s Cream Balm for hay fever, Carboline hair oil, Wells Health Renewer, Juniper Tan Soap, Rough on Pain products, Piso remedies for catarrh and cough, and assorted tonics with prices and retailers like Caswell Hazen & Co and 122 Wall Street New York.
An advert notes a $500 reward from Dr. Saze's Catarrh Remedy for curing catarrh, but claims that most failures stem from overlooked complications needing simple treatment tweaks. It asks readers who tried the remedy without lasting cure to contact the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, N. Y., for free advice by return mail. The piece ends with a biblical pun about a tall laundress.
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