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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1883
Page
3
A Boston Courier tale reports a householder who profits from gas meter manipulation to hide lavish consumption. He rigs meters and pipes to double bills, then plans to move to a larger house, revealing the secret as a parable of deceit and vanity. The stranger learns the ruse ends when he is revealed as the gas company secretary.
Two men Menteur and tiy-gif trek through wooded Cali fornia when a giant tree begins to fall. A woodman’s warning is heard as the trunk crashes, the forest shakes, and loggers haul the immense timber with twenty oxen yoked to a massive log. A broken iron ring narrowly misses the travelers, heightening their narrow escape.
In a terse exchange from a Boston Tran script, Clara agrees to marry Mark Frankton after he reveals plans to keep house and earn a living through washing and dressmaking. He argues the match will fix his financial needs and emotional hopes, and they seal the arrangement with a hurried good night.
A tale from Arkansaw Traveler narrates General Sablemore threatening a suitor to his daughter and his dramatic misadventure with a lightning strike. The young man survives after a blinding flash and dramatic words, fleeing the scene and seemingly spared by electricity.
A Detroit Free Press quote recounts a man who leapt off Randolph Street docks and was rescued by bystanders. He explains he does it as a routine, seeking a big drink and cash, noting the crowd’s rescue and the subpar whisky. He asserts a life of “straight business principles” and laments life’s irksomeness.
The piece contrasts cultivated and un cultivated parentage linking to family feuds and gossip. A Boston letter recalls scenes of harsh blame for a broken pot and restrained politeness by a host with strangers but scant kindness at home, illustrating social double standards.
A stranger asks to borrow a monkey wrench at Mr. O'Hagan's Medinia sheep ranch. Mrs. O'Hagan answers from the fence, while insults fly from Texvas Siflings writerly voice, warning the visitor to leave with a crude exchange implying a rough ranch.
An American artist with a European name faced dealer rejection for his Paris works. He found a venue in Leavitt’s mixed sale of foreign pictures and sent in his Von Dobb paintings. The auctioneer doubted the name but soon realized they were unique imports and sold for high prices.
The Bo tree of Amara poora in Burmah is claimed as the oldest tree, planted around 288 B C and now about 2,171 years old. Sir James Emerson Tennant cites historical dates from 182 A D to present to support its age. Pilgrims collect fallen leaves as sacred tokens and touch is avoided. The Windsor king oak in England is about 1,000 years old.
The Boston Globe suggests frugal home security tricks including a headless nail and tin pan alarm for doors a clothes-pin on a key to trap the knob, and a window sash hook to block knife-sliding latches, aimed at timid households seeking simple deterrents.
Atlanta residents were startled by the bell tolls from Second Baptist Church. An officer found an 8 year old boy exhausted after hours tolling the bell to wake attendants. He had fallen asleep during services the night before and was trapped inside before fainting from hunger later.
At West Point a torn shirted man with battered nose recounts a near fight with Abr'm Jores over six months of tension. The two faced off near a lime-shed, closing within a breath of a deadly clash before one man fled and the other was forced to retreat.
The New York Sun notes earth is literally pelted by meteoric stones and gathers cosmic dust as it travels with the sun through space. Beecher reflects on men as a newly created race since Christianity arrived.
A fragmentary notice touts a supposed authentic Crerman Hop Pitters with the word Gorman blown in hot tea. It mocks a line about a fallen man who “sleeps where he fell,” implying he was drunk, reflecting a lurid era marketing and obituary tone.
A miscellany of quack cures and quips appears from Brown’s Tonics to German Hop pills. Advertisements trumpet dyspepsia relief, sick headache remedies, and “neurotic debility” cures while praising educational jests and train safety. Local comments poke at speculators amid a hodgepodge of product claims.
A dense ad page fragment offers trial promotions for electro belts and vitality tonics from Tom Votratre Bett Co of Marshall Michigan, claiming thirty day risk free trials and restoration of vigor. It also touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier and tonic, with testimonials and other remedies for digestive and nervous ailments, along with several product pitches and a Cleveland or New York based line.
A Chicago motel promotes first class accommodations at the Gault House corner Madison and Clinton near Union Depot in the wholesale district. It highlights elevator improvements and daily rates of 2.00 dollars and 6 25? per day with IL W Hoyt as proprietor.
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