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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1878
Page
1
The Register lists quarterly and monthly ad rates for columns and full pages, with prices per square and column length. It also includes a poem about young America and a description of affectionate couples, with one section noting payment rules and discontinuation terms.
The Indiana delegate platform calls for government issued treasury notes with full legal tender, restoration of silver dollars, repeal of the resumption act, and debt policies favoring U S notes. It supports tax by states on US notes, strict public economy, a six percent legal rate of interest, and first liens for wages of mining, manufacturing, and transport firms. It condemns returning boards and seeks protections for pensions and common schools.
His hand at last. By his own fingers writ I catch my name on the way worn sheet. O feast of soul, O banquet richly spread. Joy and strength return with thee as the long waited love renews hope and stead. Now to my daily tasks I’ll singing go fed by the music of this way-worn sheet.
Poetic meditation on aging and mortality urging self-preparation as time closes beauty and fate carves graves. The verse contrasts blooming flowers with decay and the laurel wreath fading over a clay brow, calling readers to readiness before death.
A New York Tribune note reports General Skobeleff preferred gray mounts but believed gray horses brought danger only in one battle. A Sedalia Civil War correspondent recalls Shelby sharing a sorrel-horse superstition, noting twenty four mounts killed under him with sorrel horses.
The Sea of Marmora lies smaller than Lake Ontario with no tides. A strong current flows from the northeast to the southwest, linking the Euxine waters to the figean. Its shores are bold and picturesque, and depths reach nearly two thousand feet in places. Marmora Island proconnesaus, near the Dardanelles entrance, famed for marble. Mondania Bay lies on the Asiatic shore within three hours of Constantinople.
The excerpt notes Joseph Caldwell, once a Boston dry goods clerk and later a millionaire speculator, built an ambitious unfinished house with a single window costing 4,500 dollars. Now bankrupt, the half‑million project is being torn down as Success hinges on patronage of printing offices.
Rosamond Gifford meets Sir Walter Morton at an exhibit and learns he is her cousin. He orders sewing machines for schools and asks her to marry him. Her mother, once bitter about inheritance, consents as Rosamond becomes mistress of Morton Place.
A historical astronomy digest surveys Neptune Mercury Venus Uranus and the Moon. It notes Earth is visible from the Moon Mars Mercury and Venus, compares planetary distances and sizes, and mentions mountains volcanism and satellite relations in a speculative, era tone.
A pasted collection of aphorisms on farming prosperity linking barn size to profits and restraint with cautionary notes on house layout, storage, and livestock care. It includes New York School Journal teaching tips urging punctuality, clarity, restraint, and self government. The Royal British princes on Britannia are nicknamed Spuds and Sprats, described as nervous and briefly isolated from rough play.
A Victorian era account claims diphtheria was cured by sulphur gargles and inhalation. It describes Dr Field witnessing supposed rapid cures using flour of brimstone dissolved in water, gargled or blown into the throat, with assurances of immediate danger relief and universal success. No medical validity is provided.
In Queen Annes Gate a banker named Hankey builds vast twelve story mansions overlooking St James Park near the Metropolitan station. The flats feature elevators electric bells and speaking tubes. Tenants are mainly bachelors with some family suites. quarterly payments cover servants taxes water gas and furniture insurance. A second block of twelve story houses is planned to meet demand.
The piece discusses how literary figures and diplomats adopt refined names, citing Bayard Taylor, Whitelaw Reid, Munson Pierrepont, and Edwards Pierrepont. It notes name evolution from birth names to aristocratic or professional identities and includes a remark on distant writers sending unsolicited epic poems.
A discussion notes that though some bachelors live long, evidence from France Belgium and Holland shows married men aged 25 to 30 have lower mortality rates than bachelors. Between 25 and 30, married men in France exhibit 62 deaths per 1000 versus 102 for bachelors, with Belgium and Holland showing similar patterns.
A London note reports three prima donnas announced for Carl Rosa's company are unavailable. One suffers typhoid fever in Paris, another has a sprained ankle from a jump aboard the Flying Dutchman, and the third has recently had an addition to her family.
A terse ad states that large type is unnecessary for blind readers and suggests that people with visual impairment do not read newspapers. The remark targets accessibility and raises questions about inclusive design in print media.
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