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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1891
Page
2
The column catalogs a mix of quips and anecdotes from travel forecasts to odd inventions. It mentions German breweries and beer output, a London editor child, Idaho legal notices, a Castle Garden sale note, and technical notes on soldering devices and chimney efficiency.
A librarian recalls a visitor asking about a bust in the reading room. He says the man asked if the bust belonged to anybody, then clarifies Nero headed the fire department. The piece closes with a proverb on avoiding games of chance and valuing courtesy.
A poem describes evening light, church chimes, and a blackbird’s song that moves listeners from a child to an aging couple. The verses link visions of crowns and dulcimers to love and memory, as the bird’s flute-like tune rekindles youth’s sighs across cottage and well.
An old hunter recalls hair raising stampedes from buffaloes in canyon chases to sea lions in Aleut drives and eel panics on a Maine coast pond. He notes humans share panic causing mass rushing in war and danger.
In Our Twin Cities, Norfolk记 recounts a tale where a table cook recalls Lynnhaven oysters from before the war. A Baltimore man bets he can eat a dozen, but the dish turns into a lesson as the waiter reveals the feast was eleven pieces of large Lynnhaven oysters.
In a waiting room a penniless man recounts a lifetime of losses and a single goal to return to Vermont, confess his watermelon theft from a farmer, and offer thirty thousand dollars to obtain forgiveness, prompting neighbors to contribute. The anecdote ends with the line about Experience as a teacher.
A Rural New Yorker piece argues wives are often paid less than household servants and denounces male domination. It cites shop floor anecdotes of money hoarding and asks husbands to grant wives a monthly cash allowance equal to or higher than housework value, urging justice for future generations.
Justice Clark questions a wary witness about a drunken man in a mud hole at 4am. The prisoner is fined, and his wife, businesslike, pays the bill, contradicting testimony that he merely wanted to go home.
A hungry man asks for strawberries at a Woodward Avenue shop. He questions pricing in a hurry and settles for a quart. He then asks for figs for five cents, while a nearby passerby quips about castles and fences in verse.
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