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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1878
Page
1
The Philadelphia Times notes a rustic autumn wedding at a quiet kirk where two lovers exchanged vows as dew lay on the heather. The couple shares enduring love and is comforted by the gold of a simple life together.
The platform urges retirement of national bank notes, government issued treasury notes with full legal tender, and making United States notes fully convertible to pay all debts. It supports federal taxation of US notes, limits interest to six percent, restoration of the silver dollar, repeal of the resumption act, and stricter public economy. It condemns Republican returning boards and seeks equal pensions for War of 1812 veterans.
A weary visit to a sanctum door ends with a man requesting a credit opposite a debit for two dollars more. The party contemplates the exchange, fears a beating, and resists the proposal, then bursts into singing in relief as the moment passes.
The Jewish Times questions claims that Miss de Rothschild marrying Lord Rosebery elevates Jews, noting the Roths’ legacy versus Rosebery’s ancestry. Also referenced is a New York Herald piece listing a farcical, long list of supposed cures for rheumatism.
In Germany fish are seldom broiled, they are boiled. The size of a fish that need not be returned to the water when caught is fixed by law. Thus a salmon must be sixteen inches long, sperch five and an eel fourteen. Germans do not fish for sport.
A quip from the Burlington Hawkeye links a boy’s first cigar to a silver dollar. In London, four hundred twenty choirs lift voices weekly, with eighteen thousand hired singers in churches.
From the buffalo range a report notes that nearly all buffalo have left Texas. A quotation from Ben Franklin about dealing with advertisers echoes in the text.
Alice Justin learns to love a young lawyer, Roland Hall, while caring for Miss Grey the stern yet tender aunt figure. Julia Luttrell’s schemes fail as Alice’s heart reveals true devotion, leading to marriage and a shared vow to support Miss Grey and restore Beechwood, which Miss Grey later settles on Roland. The tale ends with family reconciliation, health restored, and Beechwood’s future secured.
In a brief remark she stated that soap and water and a clear conscience keep her youthful beyond eighty. The comment reflects a simple lifestyle motto from a centenarian figure.
A humorous South Carolina tale recounts how college students abducted a doctor’s carriage for a prank. The doctor waited in the vehicle, then ordered the students to return, posterity noting he never praised the youths who dragged the carriage into the woods. The doctor’s amused recounting ends with a question about how the carriage was moved.
A rambunctious calf and a small muscular boy duel through downtown Hastings as the animal bolts toward the Central Expressa office. Onlookers laugh and intervene while a lawyer named Wilson is knocked aside. The chase ends with the calf eluding control, causing a chaotic street scene across a bridge and prompting residents to claim how easy calf leading should be.
A newspaper note states that Uncle Tom's Cabin has been translated into Japanese while a Dubuque report mentions a 10 year old boy weighing 125 pounds.
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