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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1874
Page
1
Thrall and Mumford's advertises a large stock of fresh new merchandise. The notice emphasizes a big selection and new arrivals to attract customers to the store location.
The Scientific American now in its 29th year offers rich illustrated issues with 16 to 15 engravings per number detailing new machinery inventions and improvements. It targets engineers, manufacturers, teachers, and professionals, with annual pages, receipts, patent services by Munn and Co., and mailing to subscribers and clubs.
The Saturday Evening Post, a half century literary weekly, promotes its premium Chromo One of Life’s Happy Hours by Sinclair & Co. Subscriptions offer Chromos: single $3, four $8, six $12, eight $16. Special bundles include Arthur’s Home Magazine. Mailing costs noted. sample numbers free. address Philadelphia.
A scanned page from The Register discusses subscription prices and advertising rates, listing various column widths and durations. Interwoven are long anecdotal pieces including a Cleveland tale of a man and his sweetheart fending off pursuing wolves on a sleigh ride plus an election era ledger of bribes and hospitality.
Reported by voyagers the South Sea islanders are expert divers trained from infancy so they handle water as they do land. They recover nails and even an anvil dropped overboard by diving repeatedly and rolling it ashore. A Lebanon Pioneer item notes a school trial where girls misspellings earn kisses for the correct speller and boys sharpen spelling skills. Brigham Young forms a new society named The Order of nod.
A man and his wife in Detroit questioned a $13.75 medical bill from Dr Z due after a single visit. The doctor defended itemized charges including horse ride, tongue inspection, pulse check, patient interview, prescription writing, and office study, asserting their reasonableness.
A Sun scene editorial argues that idleness breeds misery and that labor provides happiness and meaning. It asserts humans are born to work, finding usefulness anywhere, and that earning enough for oneself enables serving others, seen as a noble duty for a good man.
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