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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1891
Page
3
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a universal blood purifier and lung remedy. It claims to purify the blood, cleanse impurities, and cure diseases from impure blood including consumption and scrofula, with a money back guarantee if it fails to help.
A long argued shift to electric chairs marks New York’s humane approach to capital punishment. Since 1889 the law has limited publication of execution details and court challenges have upheld the method. Public sentiment debates whether the death penalty should stand at all amid religious and moral objections.
A St Louis police building on Biddle Street is described as hosting a grisly midnight scene. Nine figures sat around a table as one man was strangled in a ritual-like act, witnessed by Erb, head Marshal of the Second District Court. Disturbing repeated sightings lead locals to blame the old Knights of the Golden Circle for haunting the building as specters.
A collage of antiquarian lore, health ads, and odd anecdotes. It recounts a German tale on the origin of menus from Regensburg in 1489, warns of heat and draughts with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, shares a light joke about a skeleton, mentions rail excursion tickets, land sales, a waterproof cement recipe, and tips on public convictions. It closes with medical and political snippets from Toledo and Italy.
Ivory Soap ad artistry earns praise for full page Century series. Known as unsigned by advertisers, future signings may include George Wharton Edwards and E. W. Kemble. The ink review lauds trained imagination and strong concept shaping ads. The Boers threaten Britain in South Africa, a tense imperial scene noted with colorful similes.
A 3 inch display advertisement claims every week a single word is unique among two word pairs. The Dr Harter Medicine Co urges readers to name the word to receive free books and lithographs. The note references Crescent marks on their products and mentions vaccination practices in Japan and Piso's Cure for Consumption.
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