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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1878
Page
1
The Register lists subscription terms and ad rates for various column widths and durations. It states payment in advance for transient ads and notices, with penalties for arrears and automatic renewal unless cancellations are notified. It also details legal advertisement charges and rates for quarter, half, and full columns, with yearly totals.
A nostalgic verse recalls a September meeting between two young lovers aged seven and ten. They share a shy, gushing moment over a road side encounter, vow devotion, and face parental objections as years pass, with a hint of secrecy and lasting memories from youth.
Poem depicts a willow tree mourning an endless wrong as nature cycles through spring to fall. The speaker contrasts renewal and beauty with the tree’s perpetual sadness, suggesting loyal constancy as a sweeter grace than any heart can hold.
A fragment from a sentimental song about love and doubt references whether the beloved thinks of the speaker away. The text also includes miscellaneous notes about stage history and a stray quip about cows, with a Hawkeye citation and a remark on women on stage in England in 1661.
A bachelor narrator recalls five years ago when he travels to Monmouth New Jersey, meets May Stevens after a train wreck leaves him in muddy clothes, sneaks into Hyatt’s home in dishabille, and meets his future wife for the first time. The incident unfolds with comic misadventure and the moment of their formal introduction at breakfast.
The narrative recalls Booth's failed reception at a Manchester venue a large button making town. He energized a late 8th act clash, drew raucous applause, and flung a biting quip at the button workers. He fled the city amid a mob while in New York he faced arrest for drunkenness under the alias Lucius Junius Brutus.
A man rushed into a dentist’s office begging to have a tooth examined and possibly pulled. The dentist found a past filling had partly come out and joked it was a botch by the Brooklyn man’s friends Henry Ward Beecher and T DeWitt Talmage. The patient paid and left, and the dentist reflected on the Brooklyn connection.
A North Carolina governor recounts a private exchange with a former mason about McAden's bank. The mason laments his swindled investments and the governor hints that the bank holds his note for 2500 dollars, forecasting trouble for the institution.
Frederick Hasee, once at the head of his German university class in 1870, died in St. Louis where he had worked as a porter at a medical college for a year. He was heir to about $80,000, and his prospects were bright. An appetite for opium caused his death.
A report notes the potential for rapid travel with Texas rail or transport options capable of covering about 100 miles daily when necessary, highlighting efficiency and pacing for long trips.
In a rehearsal clash, Madame Malibran berates Mr Templeton for failing to show passion with her on stage. She asserts he is her lover and orders him to act with intensity in act one, and to pull her about in act two, threatening him if he resists. Templeton complies, doubtfully.
A moral admonition stressing that daughters must be taught to earn a living. It warns that rich parents often pamper daughters who grow dependent and helpless if misfortune strikes. The writer urges all families to value work, noting fortunes can reverse and labor is essential for all social classes.
The passage argues prosperity can intoxicate and unsettle men while adversity tests fortitude. It contrasts the old sailor who remains hopeful in storms with those who lack courage and keep faith only when skies clear. It urges youths to keep heads cool and maintain equanimity through change.
A compact collection of lines praising women from Lessing Thackeray Bourdon Balzac Voltaire Lamartine and Otway. The remarks extol women as superior in purity heart imagination and sentiment, contrasting them with men and celebrating beauty and virtue.
Strong proof of education gains in France is shown by the fact that only 4992 of 294382 men admitted into the army last year could not read or write.
The London Daily News has added its eighth Waller press in the press room, enabling the production of 104000 flawless copies per hour. A rhetorical aside compares figures on equality, noting notable waist measurements of Tilden and Davis.
A garbled passage recalls a Boston Commercial Bulletin snippet and Montreal incident about lightning, knitting needles, candle signals, and a hangman’s warrant. The fragment shifts to archaic questions about infancy and wealth, ending with a cryptic line about a wrathful child.
The Chicago Limes hails Beaconsfield's victory as a startling British triumph in the Berlin Congress. It argues Russia loses prestige, while Britain expands influence in Asia Minor and the Mediterranean, with Cyprus, rail projects, and Asiatic reach. The piece lauds Britain's rising protectorate power and deters Russian indignation.
A Chicago man wrote to an Astora figure threatening to kill unless he receives one million dollars. The bizarre note appears to pledge defense of the claimed million dollars and hints at possible further action.
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