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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1878
Page
4
A playful verse from Whitehall Times depicts two lovers in a sunlit garden among roses and jessamine. The dialogue brims with floral puns and courtship humor as dawn fades and the couple dream together at day’s end.
On May 15 1800 King George III faced an assassination attempt as a pistol shot struck the ceiling of his theater box. He calmly entered first, urged calm, and invited the audience to fire if they wished. Queen and family secured, crowd sang Oh Save the King, and Sheridan added verses. The king later defended his actions.
A compact editorial style verse warns that prompt paying subscribers bring joy to editors while delinquent ones cause hardship in the newspaper house. It contrasts integrity with debt, urging timely payments and denouncing promises to pay that are not kept, as righteous and foolish alike are weighed.
A witty quip contrasts desire and excess by noting a hungry man longs to eat while a glutton eats too long. The line plays on appetite and restraint with a punchy moral about moderation.
In a doomed romance from Easton, Radspinner and Lillian Den Senbury, engaged, die after a train hurls itself along the track. Lillian refuses to tear her wine colored silk as she urges Radspinner away. The locomotive drags her to death while the groom-to-be searches in vain for any thread of her dress.
The U S Consul at Bremen reports daily pay for agricultural labor from fifty six to thirty one cents, with higher wages for skilled trades in Bremen and Düsseldorf and lower rates in Silesia. Farm hands earn yearly wages from 107 to 215 dollars with maintenance, while railway laborers and weavers show varied daily rates. cost of living rose about fifty percent in thirteen years, though now near five years ago levels. A couple with two or three children could live in two to three rooms for about 275 dollars annually, with ten to twelve hours work daily by all members.
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