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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1876
Page
1
The Register announces subscription at 160 dollars yearly or 2 dollars weekly delay with payment rules. Rates list for columns and notices include one square fees, partial squares counted as three, and extended rates for quarter half and full columns with monthly and yearly options. All ads and job work must be prepaid or paid on delivery.
Miss Lilian Tyler falls for Frederick Lockhart a traveling sewing machine agent after a chance encounter and rain shelter turns into courtship. Kitty and Aunt Laura oppose the match though Lilian’s engagement progresses amid family doubts and a mistaken cousin Florence Tilton’s letter hints.
In Harper's Weekly a sprite resists Cupid's offers of wealth and fame. Weary winged love pleads for rest but is denied until pity joins love, and the door opens to embrace. The tale ends with Cupid entering and the speaker yielding to love.
A fragmentary poem recalls intimate scenes and dreamlike escape through a foggy Eden while a letter from Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm to the Chicago Tribune contrasts Bank of England gloom with flashy American banking grandeur. The tone blends romantic imagery with social critique of wealth and class.
A tall man from China, said to be five inches taller than Chang, travels with a long natural pig-tail and a great appetite. He is refined and affable, recently married to a pretty Chinese woman who will accompany him to 86. Poet Smith recalls clasping her hand in bliss, then notices finger gloves revealing feights.
Heavy rains in Georgia have damaged crops across multiple counties, affecting yields and farm activity. Local weather officials warn recovery may take time as fields remain waterlogged and standing moisture challenges persist.
The piece discusses hand shapes with three finger types linked to character traits and describes a Davenport Democrat anecdote where two con men and a companion trick a sleeping man with a wooden watch that conceals a real gold model, illustrating the lesson never judge by appearances.
Yesterday morning Thomas Humphreys and Leonora Braxton wed then took a Madison street car excursion to Union Park to view the bear and dine on a sliver of brick. The husband soon regretted the nuptials and the wife vanished prompting an advertisement in the Tribune seeking her return and the husband’s pardon for the broken heart.
A game in Hau Claire Wisconsin saw a fielder’s throw ricochet to a second baseman who failed to catch it. He grabbed the ball and tossed it home but collapsed and died on the field.
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