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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1891
Page
2
A pocketmedley of opinions and curiosities outlines morals, fashion gibes, and social quirks. It notes the Montreal General Hospital’s ban on female students, reports a wreck near the Spanish coast from a likely live torpedo, and highlights a sanguinite mineral containing silver arsenic and sulphur.
The column blends social gossip with medical quips and curiosity items. It recounts a telephone scam involving a Holyoke businessman, discusses post prohibition drinking attitudes, offers praise for Dr Melancthon Storrs on happiness in education, highlights advances in intestinal surgery and surgical methods, recalls a Methodist tale about a bosom pin, and ends with a Mexico City canine newsboy partnering with a dog to sell papers.
A Chinaman of Omaha received a polite invitation card to attend church that warned of a lesson. He went to church and returned to find $75 in property stolen from his home. The card was sent by the robber to lure him away.
An elderly hayseed travels to New York and is duped by a bogus detective who retrieves his $80 then robs him again. The tale exposes supposed "honor among thieves" as self interest, while a police sergeant and the crowd witness the old man’s gullibility and the gang’s clever ruse.
A fragment notes that the thieves’ plunder was quickly returned to the gang’s treasury, suggesting a swift theft cycle and quick recovery within the criminal group. The line hints at internal dynamics and possible realignments in illicit gains.
In a Chicago Times account a young girl in a railroad car loudly questions her mother about Mrs. Brown, a bonnet and feathers, prompting whispers and blushes as fellow passengers listen. The scene ends with the train pulling into the station.
A father recalls a bureau drawer filled with relics of their dead son Jack. He and his wife mourn daily, cherishing items like shoes, clothes, toys, and spools, while longing for their child’s voice and presence. They hope future strangers handle the keepsakes with care after their deaths.
A Prussian landtag measure requires compensation to agriculturists for crop damage by game. Payments come from other farmers, not game owners, revealing noble–led policy. Critics call it robbing Peter to pay Paul as the Emperor’s sanction seems at odds with progress.
A lively exchange unfolds as a dapper suitor visits a fashionable woman on Cass Avenue at 8:30. He jokes of London time after midnight, insisting he must depart but she invites him to tea the next day, capturing a playful social moment from the Free Press page.
The New York Times notes half dollars are disliked, as people prefer two quarters for practicality. Large inventories linger in Washington and may be recoined into smaller coins, while the treasury expects to continue minting halves albeit in reduced share. Rafael Joseffy’s streetcar misadventure ends with him offering a seat to a pug.
A Chicago druggist calls the soda water wink a myth and a newspaper tradition, noting no one drinks whisky in soda. He recalls Prohibition era bounties, then tells of a Scotch professor whose dry trick during a Perthshire rain shower bewildered fellow hunters.
A humorous miscellany piece surveys watermelons from Florida, discusses proper selection, chilling methods, and cautions against soaked brandy melons. It also notes a nameless barnyard bird and quotes the Pittsburgh Dispatch on tone in railroad punctuality. An Ohio farmer故事 follows about a tin peddler promising gold for a fee, misleading Davis.
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