15 Apr 1881
Page 1
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1881
Page
1
The Register lists advertising rates and payment rules. It states advance payment required for notices and that discontinuances after subscription expire count as new engagements. Rates are given for quarter, half, and whole column placements, with monthly, biannual, and yearly options.
An OCR snippet shows a brief wager or sale note reading for one dollar at seven o clock, with unclear subject or item. The fragment includes stray letters and punctuation, offering minimal context about the auction or event.
A reflective essay extols labor as civilization’s foundation. It traces labor from primitive tools to modern industry, cites figures like Napoleon and Scott, and warns against idleness. It argues work builds health, freedom, and virtue, urging youth to engage in meaningful manual crafts.
The printed notice in a conspicuous place states that persons having no business in this office will get through with it as 8005 possible and leave. The remark reflects a tongue in cheek warning about intruders and counts efficiency as the measure of passage.
A Boston concert featured a program printed in Japanese paper to reduce rattling noise. In a separate count, a New Hampshire judge has divorced 227 couples over five years.
Ruth and Margie run a small shop from a family house and rent a rear room to a peculiar old man named Thomas. He befriends them, reveals a shared past, and dies leaving bonds that make Ruth and Margie heirs along with John, whom Ruth marries after nursing him and forming a stable, loving home with Margie and John’s mother.
General Armstrong spoke to Massachusetts residents at a Hampton funded event about rapid education gains in the New South. He praised the shift, noted allied white support for colored teachers, but warned strongest resistance comes from illiterate preachers. He added Southern white colleges are crowded as students live frugally to pursue education.
In a Philadelphia pantomimic play a coach is drawn on stage by live horses. Two wheels come off causing the carriage to overturn. Passengers who are skilled acrobats are thrown into grotesque attitudes in all directions.
A wry philosopher quips that when one descends life seems easy as grease, and when one climbs it seems equally slippery, suggesting small truths about effort and luck in human progress.
A reflective aphorism notes that small capacity men endure neither fortune nor misfortune, while those with greater capacity ride two high tides. Hare is cited describing two peaks in influence: when the moon is full and when there is no moon, implying cyclical extremes.
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