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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1885
Page
1
A brief item noting The Register is published every Friday by coc. v. Slater, with no additional context or events reported.
A Washington dispatch notes the steady but quiet political reform pace under the new administration, with reforms affecting federal offices and calls for changes in Oregon and Virginia. It describes naval planning, a color line controversy involving a black editor, poker among social circles, and personal anecdotes at the White House including Arthur Simmons and Senator Payne.
A string of curious notes reports on paper watch-wheels in Germany, Abyssinian literature, England’s drink bill, rising drunkenness in Mexico, and crocodile jaw strength. Others mention Fort Sumpter ruins, a funeral flask dispute in Arizona, a 186 year old Cheshire apple tree, Victoria and Nelson, Paris patents in Mexico, and Colorado gold prospects.
The New Harmony Register correspondent tours Chalmette six miles below New Orleans. He admires the graveyard of nearly 18,000 Union dead and the faded monument to Gen. Jackson, noting the historical ground and the peace contrasted with war. He also highlights Arkansas exhibits at the exposition and praises broader lessons from the displays.
Indiana items report Fort Branch starting a newspaper, Mitchell youth changing color, Petersburg egg shipments, Sunday baseball law challenge, Shelbyville divorce surge, Mormon disturbances in Pulaski, Stantingburgh population surge, Rev T M Smith new Soldiers' Orphan Home superintendent. Pike agriculture prizes. Evansville normal school interest. South Bend dog and rat bone theft. Rising Sun man finds Civil War relics with minie balls and cannister shot in a log. possible ties to Greenbrier battlefields and 7th Indiana Volunteers memory.
Carmi hosts a 60 pupil colored school while Grayville notes failed concrete walks. Olney votes GOP ticket with one exception. Bengal tiger triggers Chicago scare and a postmaster ousted over a dead dog display. Joliet and Albany elections show license battles. Luzuminous trees near Tuscarora and a nickel of misc. notes mingle with coal veins, steel rails, a $60,000 machinery need, a cremery, and the first steel steamship launched in San Francisco.
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