11 Apr 1879
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1879
Page
1
The Register imposes annual subscription and ad rates with strict payment terms. It details front page charges for one square ads, quarter, half, and whole column placements, plus legal notices, and requires advance payment for transient ads and job work on delivery.
Co partnership between Wm A Right and Geo W Engler dissolved March 1 187% by mutual consent. Business continues at old stand by W A Right with settlements to be made. W A Kight announces continuation of Kight & Co at old stand offering dry goods nations millinery and jewelry and thanks patrons.
A new store has opened occupying the former James Rogers and John R. Hugo location. Mrs Mary Drinkwater will run the millinery dept with hats silks ribbons flowers lace and ornaments. The owners thank patrons and pledge fair dealing to merit continued support. Peter Heckman to apply for license to retail spirits at Lot 93 Main Street New Harmony Posey County Indiana during the June county session.
A first person narrator recounts Tom's forthcoming June marriage to a widow Agnes Inman Rutledge after a long friendship. The piece traces Tom's life from boyhood, through college, to a devastating accident involving Agnes Inman, her daughter, and Tom. The narrator reflects on love, loss, duty, and the evolving bond that leads to a hopeful union.
A city paper advertises for a humor writer with strange terms and the writer delivers. a farmer repays him with five dollars after his brother’s life is saved by calming laughter through reading the column. The publisher, after hearing the tale, discontinues the comic feature.
A Chicago Times expansion drew witty comments from rival papers and readers alike. They note the religious paper’s growth, quips about its editor Old Storey, and comparisons to a mule’s ears, reflecting a cordial, humorous exchange among Chicago press peers.
A colored Mobile worker employed to carry kerosene oil to the Mobile and Ohio depot said he would vote the Democratic ticket. On return he produced a citizens' ticket when asked for a receipt, declaring with a blessing that he had voted the kerosene oil ticket.
A past lawyer berates an Oil City client in a public tirade calling him a liar. The client retorts with humor about spelling and the insult escalates into a dramatic verbal exchange.
A period note explains a corn measurement method using length width and height, multiplying the cubic feet by 44 and adjusting to one decimal place. It cites Great Britain importing about 700 million eggs per year, with imports nearly doubled in seven years.
The New York Sun notes Secor Robeson of New Jersey has emerged as a leading force among Republicans in the Forty-sixth House as Blaine moved to the Senate. Hale fades and Frye and DeGoyler Garfield wrestle with leadership gaps while Robeson’s plans for treasury control draw sharp attention.
A Lexington Press correspondent claims common mullein tea, steeped strong and sweetened with coffee sugar, cures consumption after lung bleed and hectic flushes. The recipe advises three to six months of use, portable tea in a bottle, and dried mullein for storage, urging wide republication in North America and Europe.
A medical reflection by Dr. Edward H. Clarke describes that unconsciousness marks the final act, death being no more painful than birth. It explains how respiration weakens, the heart slows, and blood becomes less oxygenated as carbonic acid builds, leading to loss of consciousness and eventual death.
The account recalls Lydia Thompson and her blondes on stage here. Dr Holcombe, seated behind Mrs Saxon, leans over to remark on her expressive countenance while she retorts that she came to watch the play of her logo.
In Newburyport a man entered a liquor store and asked for two quarts of rum claiming it was to soak roots. After the sale the dealer asked what roots, and the man replied the roots of his tongue, but the moment had passed.
The eight partners at Basa & Co. in Bartoo on Trent Bogland divided last year’s net profits totaling 2,100,008 dollars. The distribution details prompt questions over equity and management share.
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