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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1870
Page
4
The Register recounts a personal argument between a Central New York lawyer and his son Will a college freshman. After Will is suspended for a disciplinary breach the father asks what the president said. Will quips that the worst student was him with one exception his father, a reply that ends the exchange.
A harsh portrait condemns idle men as the most miserable scrap of humanity in every town. The piece argues loafers shirk work, live in inaction, and vanish from society without contributing, becoming chronic nuisances and vacancies in the community.
An amusing Southwark election story features a costermonger in a donkey cart voting with a nose for politics. The green ribbons on the donkey signal the Odger party while the voter declares Beresford, triggering a chorus of laughter as onlookers assume a green misvote. The man clarifies it’s his donkey that is radical, and the crowd roars anew.
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