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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1893
Page
2
The Register notes Rhode Island leads with the first trmoline factory in the country. It mentions a shift away from plug hats in Germany where chimney sweeps still wear them. New York and San Francisco oppose pugilism. The sinful zone remains dense along the Mississippi Valley region.
Rev Joseph Cook divides Chicago's population into American, foreign, and internal categories. He often places politicians at the bottom of his lists, reflecting his orderly, ironic approach to social delineation.
The United States National Museum is set to gain relics from Troy via the widow of the late antiquarian Dr Schlieman. The donation would enrich the museum’s ancient collection with artifacts unearthed at Troy.
Mrs Lovejoy Alprica of Seattle Washington recalls two former husbands a Revolutionary War soldier and a veteran of the War of 1812. She is still living and well known in the Pension Office.
Anthracite coal prices are easing but it is unclear whether the decline stems from the Reading incident or the weakening coal trust, or simply from Jack Frost’s abdication. The public has not learned the cause yet.
The report states the executed man at San Quentin was buried without a eulogy, suggesting a reform toward reducing ceremonial tributes. The note implies a shift away from the long held practice of offering formal praise at capital punishment.
An Illinois man named Smith has departed this life after 119 years of it. He claimed to be last to have worked for Washington, but otherwise the only stain on him was due to tobacco, which he chewed for eighty years and gummed for twenty-five more.
An Eastern capitalist asserts he was hypnotized into theft by an adviser. He argues that highly developed theft becomes a science, shifting from mere larceny to disciplined capability.
The passage notes no railroads in Persia forcing the Shah to travel by horse or carriage. It adds a quip that Philadelphia offers many old street-car systems available at junk prices for his use.
A stray hog in Catawissa, Pennsylvania frightened burglars at a local bank, halting a nighttime robbery on the safe. The odd incident joins a historic line of animal heroics noted in local lore.
An Alabama murderer facing execution had his body auctioned after a brief bidding among doctors. The corpse sold for eight cents a pound, totaling $12.46, while bacon sold for 104 cents a pound nearby.
A genius named Luna is credited with a perpetual motion machine. He claims the design relies on weights. He jokes that finding perpetual motion is also a matter of waits, noting the world has waited trillions of years.
A Milan Tennessee man reportedly revived after death and told vivid tales of the afterlife stirring his neighbors. He died twenty four hours later before reporters could pursue a revised Revelation version.
Tur Rev. C. H. Tyndall of New York illustrates his sermon with animal effects. He debuted a stuffed lion fitted with a roaring device that emits a harsh, saw-tearing sound to enhance impact.
Herr Krurr reportedly dispatched a gun weighing 124 tons to Chicago, boasting the greatest bore on record aside from the crank who. The claim highlights extraordinary proportions and draws note for size and oddity.
A fragmented note hints that firing a Krupp gun would cost $1,500, casting doubt on Chicago Fair officers asking Herr Krupp to perform a sunset salute while editors are busy. The reference ties a German arms maker to a ceremonial gesture amid a busy newsroom.
A man with a wooden leg faced a magistrate after a woman stole his glass eye. She took it from his vest pocket where he kept it as a spectacle. In court the mechanical eye was returned and the pair left together amicably.
The current cholera cases in Russian Poland show about one in six deaths, far lower than last year's one in three in the same area and lower than the historic two in five or three in five in Europe. Authorities are urged to deploy all practical precautions to keep the plague at bay.
An alarming lab note proclaims that the deadliest bacteria live and multiply on bank notes. It warns the public that money passes through pockets of the diseased and the refined, requiring washing and fumigation before contact with our bodies.
The piece contrasts old travel by chaise and boat with today’s grand private cars and luxurious trains. It notes vast railway expansion from New York to Chicago, Lake Erie steamships, and the grid of lines across the United States and territories.
Burore notes urgent action as a Dresden conference seeks a comprehensive plan to stamp out last year's cholera germ threat. Steamship firms back health measures after losses from quarantine while American consular doctors inspect migrants and disinfect baggage. Quarantine officers pledge vigilance to prevent a recurrence.
An incident on Custom House place in Chicago reports a male victim robbed of a large sum as a hat snatching duo, a black female thief grabbing the hat and an accomplice, described as a female amazon, rifling pockets. The piece notes convictions are rare and advises buying a new hat rather than pursuing the thieves.
A recipe notes a fine imitation of maple sugar by flavoring brown sugar with hickory bark extract. It claims the result is nearly indistinguishable from the real maple sugar, though it is introduced in a tangential historical aside.
A fragmentary verse set ponders why the speaker loves a woman, declaring she is herself and he is I. The speaker admires her face and eyes and claims their bond will endure beyond beauty, time, and even death, ending with a biblical cadence and a note from Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
In Camp near the Gila, Milly Ledyard the popular new engineer clashes with Harve Bragg over a dance. Bragg shoots Milly and Bragg is wounded. Rice MacArthur is mortally wounded while confessing to a wife he never married. MacArthur flees to Central America and is later murdered by natives.
A North Dakota note reports Mia E- was not seriously hurt after a household mishap upstairs. A hired man chased a mouse with a gun and a dog, fired, the dog fell dead, Mrs E- fainted, and the man fled fearing murder charges, while the mouse escaped. The Boston Budget and The Saunterer publish the quirky tale.
A Burlington Hawkeye excerpt sketches life among Utes with note on child discipline including immersion in water for crying, and social dining habits. Jenkins and Suwick are regulars at the author’s table, with Sowick bringing kin. instances show Indians begging, sharing food, and occasional politeness about meals and invitations.
A Parisian tale told at table recalls Mme von Konig after the Franco Prussian War. She challenged a German officer by sending a single white hair to a French jeweler, who returned a gold enamel device on sabers and the Prussian eagle. It bore Alsace and Lorraine arms with the line You hold them by a hair.
A group of Russian peasants, after wasting their earnings on brandy, decide to punish themselves with twenty five lashes each. One man tries to escape and receives fifty lashes, twice the agreed amount. He is brought to Disna and hospitalized for some time.
Pat Walked. Jay Gould tells a tale of an Irishman aboard an Erie Canal packet boat. He tows the boat for two days then decides to walk rather than work his passage declaring I might as well walk as work me passage. He leaves without thanking his employers.
A cryptic exchange recalls Mooney’s service in Congress. The quote questions whether he served two terms, with a clerk noting he likely served one term and was about to begin another before his constituents pardoned him. The remark frames a historic political nuance and pardon context.
Former Police Justice James T. Kilberth describes life in stenerment houses. He recalls patterns of disputes, mostly between women, with crowds of witnesses. His method: bind the house to the peace for six months to quiet tensions and prevent further trouble.
In Lewiston at Hates Street Baptist Church Rev W T Chase sought a fixed sermon length of thirty five minutes. Deacon Wright, official timer, rose at the hour and Chase acknowledged the deacon’s reliability as the crowd noted the clock and the plan succeeded.
An Owens family rediscovered a buried stash of coins on their 200 acre Bedford Indiana property when a log snag was dislodged by a plow. The cache contained French coins American silver dollars Spanish and Mexican pieces and Revolutionary era money valued at $500 face but $10 000 in market value. The coins likely left by a resident fleeing Indians and buried for decades.
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