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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1871
Page
1
The Register publishes a detailed list of subscription costs and advertising rates. It notes advance payment discounts, penalties for arrears, and double pricing for local column entries, along with a humorous editorial excerpt on farming and a London locomotion tale.
An advertisement extols Hoofland's German Bitters Tonic Greek Oil and Pedophyllin Pill as superior non alcoholic extracts from German roots. It claims concentrated medicinal virtue, warns against cheap substitutes, lists ailments including liver and digestive diseases, and notes external and internal uses for Greek Oil with wide symptom relief claims.
This ad promotes Dr Hoofland’s Pedophyllin as a powerful yet gentle purge for liver stomach and bowels using Pedophyllia mandrake extract. It links with Dr Hoofland’s German Bitters or Tonic to cleanse blood strengthen nerves and support recovery. It claims quick action with two pills and offers mail delivery from the German Medicine Store Philadelphia to dealers and druggists nationwide.
An advertisement extols Helmbold’s Compound Fluid Extract Catawba Grape Pills for liver complaints jaundice bilious affections and sick or nervous headache. The tablets are described as pure vegetable with no mercury minerals or deleterious drugs and as a pleasant purgative without nausea or griping.
An 19th century medical advertisement promotes Helmbold’s Extract Buchu and Rosewash as universal remedies. It claims blood purification cures for chronic diseases and skin conditions, notes diabetics improve, and touts use for ladies uterine issues. The text lists wide ranges of ailments and urges purchase through the New York depot and trusted druggists.
A Rocky Still Station correspondent reports a joke at Judge Houchin Brownsville where a pale youth seeks a marriage license. The judge says he marries gratis but the youth pays what it is worth. The ceremony yields laughter as the judge is reminded he is now a married man.
An item describes a snakebite antidote recipe from Dr W H Anderson of Portage Box Elder county using egg yolk salt gunpowder applied as a plaster and repeated until absorbed, plus a laxative. A Rochester Democrat item mocks a railroad line between Avon Mt Morris over a missing dog incident. The column includes dogged humor about a bell and a quip on Arizona heat and tortoise terrapins theory. Subscription inquiry closes.
Reports indicate Russia is escalating its military armaments as strain grows on resources. Analysts note a 30 percent increase in certain defense orders and discuss impacts on regional security and policy.
An exchange warns that shorthand like chlor hydr and hydr chlor can be misread as dangerous substances. A Brooklyn physician's hydrate of chloral led to a pharmacist error and a young woman’s death, prompting a call to hold both doctor and druggist accountable.
A correspondent asks the best treatment to prevent hydrophobia in dogs. The reply admits no known best method but suggests exposing the dog to abundant water by anchoring it seven feet deep so its head remains eighteen to twenty five inches under water, ensuring it can drink freely. Any extra water is claimed to help more than harm.
The fragment refers to a bronze age river journey in New Orleans and a so called iron coffin said to contain a golden trumpet gifted by Queen Victoria. A quip about Victoria’s birth year follows the line of joking dialogue.
A reflective meditation on the enormity of large sums and numbers. The passage compares a million to vast quantities, imagining counting pace and transport, and contrasts billions and trillions with everyday life while musing on perception and scale. It also references historical imagery and a scattered, editorial tone.
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