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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1890
Page
7
A regional verse tale sketches Old Whistle as tightfisted and frugal to the end. It follows his penny pinching habits from cradle to grave, noting how he saves on meals, clothing, and daily comforts while enduring mockery from coins and a grim fate after life. The piece lampoons thrift with rural humor and a grim light on mortality.
In a Colorado canyon near Pine Creek, Charley Baker robs and kills Nate Brooks during a night pursuit by miners led by Tom Meyers. Baker is convicted and hanged after a camp trial. Ran Saunders, wounded, dies after revealing Baker’s past. Charley’s wife is revealed as the killer who framed him, and she is buried with a monument later.
Darius L. Goff, a braid works proprietor in Pawtucket RI, uses an heirloom clock connected to his door gears to stay wound with every entry and exit. Electricity via the clock powers hall gas control, servant and family bells, breakfast bell, and hour chimes, filling rooms with music. The tale notes wealth road rocks and the remark from the Boston Advertiser.
The text links liver disorders to constipation and blood contamination and claims Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters prevents these issues. It asserts relief from rib and shoulder blade pains, nausea, headaches, yellow skin, coated tongue, and breath odor, while improving digestion, regularity, appetite, and sleep and offering protection from malaria.
A German physicist demonstrates a simple electric spark device using a tin foil ring on a lamp chimney and a silk wrapped brush. In darkness, a spark jumps between foil strips when the brush is withdrawn. The note promises many more experiments with this setup and cites a Citizens of Toledo letter author.
An examination in a Connecticut school prompts children to name who makes laws. One girl answers Congress, another says the division is civilized, half civilized, and savage. The piece also notes a French mint plan, perforted coins, and a soap advertisement with a pun about washing powders.
Three Harvest Excursions on The Burlington Route C B and QR A will sell from principal stations on its lines on Tuesdays September 9 and 93 and October 14. Harvest Excursion Tickets at Half Rates to points in farming regions of the West Southwest and Northwest. For tickets and information call your nearest ticket agent or address P and Eustis Gone Pass and Wicket Agent China PLL.
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