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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1892
Page
2
The Register notes a Welsh event where a Conservative candidate in Festiniog was chased five miles after an attempt to address a platform. It contrasts with American farmers showing needs for roads in dry weather and difficulties in mud, while English papers lament U S political campaign brutality.
A Colorado journal reports a fifteen minute conference with a lawyer that transfers litigation privilege to the humblest citizen. The piece notes the rapid divorce trend in the region and foresees broad, transformative possibilities from accessible legal action.
The scene on the hustings saw Lady Dinke weeping as her husband’s character was attacked. A rival, a staunch advocate for social purity, argued from another side, but the audience favored the supporters' side. The result was decided by the eyes of the crowd.
Russia shows a stark contrast between famine relief and military buildup as it constructs battleships at a cost of 30 million dollars while unburied dead lie in its southeastern territories. The situation is noted as an interesting, self-contained display of priorities.
The London Times has shifted to praising Americans and their nation, prompting a call for the United States to scrutinize its own conduct. The piece argues moral condemnation is undeserved and urges conscience to be examined in the light of this praise.
An article in the Times-Democrat argues city crowding is solving the race problem by forcing negroes into urban living, where unsanitary conditions cause high mortality and threaten their political influence.
A reader proclaims that Stanley’s loss in North Lambeth shows the respect for popular suffrage. He accuses Stanley of disloyalty to the United States and lust for power, calling for opposition to his enemies of human liberty.
A million people gathered in Chicago to support commercial growth, explained by an energetic public spirit and civic pride. The city’s citizens push forward projects, praise Chicago abroad, and claim this policy as the core of its greatness from inception.
Henry M. Stanley is described as a former Confederate soldier and deserter who later joined the Union navy and again became a renegade. The passage notes his prominence through exploits in Africa that are framed as of dubious benefit to civilization but of clear value to European monarchs.
The excerpt accuses Stanley of cruelty toward followers and captives, smearing his name among the conquerors he crossed. The British voter is urged to act decisively to curb his influence and keep him down.
The text celebrates the opening of picnic season after rain and chill. It extols outdoor family gatherings, rustic freedoms, and simple pleasures like brown pop and lemonade, with playful nods to insects and weather as companions on a carefree country outing.
An Americate machine shop illustration shows a lathe bed cast in two halves planed and aligned with a planer table. The process required erecting a perpendicular to a straight planer bed, then leveling the lathe bed, and finally bolting the halves. The result achieved near perfect alignment with only one thirty
The writer condemns prisons for fools and argues for a separate retreat to keep dangerous, loaded weapons away. He criticizes punishment as futile for such minds and proposes a confinement idea to remove real threats from society.
A Paris area parish cemetery features an epitaph reading that a wife named Mie N lies in rest and that the railing around her tomb was made by her husband, a master blacksmith. The witty inscription appears in London Tit-Bits.
A fragmentary verse piece recalls a youth with a rose heart who asks if life is sweet or bitter. The boy tears out his heart’s flower, blood red with a thorn, fades, and ages to a gray-bearded speaker who still questions life’s sweetness while finding its last drops sweet.
Adam Holcomb dies leaving two nephews with five thousand each and a cousin who is a budding physician inherits five hundred dollars. A codicil grants Alfred Graves a hundred thousand dollars if he agrees to care for the will’s dog Scipio, while a library fund of two hundred thousand dollars is created for the native town. The scheming relatives depart in disappointment. Graves receives a sudden fortune and vows to use it well.
After arranging matters in London, a young man named Alfred returns home to tell his parents the good news. He gives half the money to his father, transfers funds to their joint bank, and the Rev. Graves and his wife realize their days of hardship are over. The gift becomes a fountain of good deeds and charitable influence.
A Providence Telegram report describes a young North End society man famed for staying late at ladies homes. His hosts devised a plan to curb him by winding the mantel clock and securing windows. At midnight a thunderous noise turned to the boiler’s strokes and the gas went out, leaving him in darkness and leading to his aversion to late visits.
A French investigator advocates carrier pigeons for rapid wartime messages. During the Paris siege, pigeons carried twenty word letters printed, photographed, reduced, and attached to bird feathers. Any amateur photographer using wet collodion could adapt a page of a newspaper for dispatch.
Retired Boston sea captain Terry Cooper recalls a 1850s voyage from Travana to Congo with a masked captain aboard a fast ship. The crew, armed with a handspike, overpowered six assailants, and after Cuba we returned. four crew members were left ashore while envelopes with $250 were given to each man.
The Falklands yield no trees yet wool is shaped into remarkable blocks that appear as weathered gray boulders. Rolling a block proves impossible because the stone is rooted to the ground, in fact a block of living wood disguised as rock.
Krones describes dissolving bones in strong ashes to create a potent fertilizer. Layer ashes and bones alternately, keep moist, and after three to four months the bones crumble for use with soil. If a person is unlucky among friends, he suggests staying positive with humor.
The description portrays Daubigny as medium height with olive tint, dark hair and eyes, a warm, perceptive expression, and a genial unassuming manner. It notes his simple, economical methods, painting outdoors with canvases staked in fields, using a palette knife for mass work, and preferring oak panels for small works.
The fifteenth century confessor Fernando de Talavera, archbishop and royal adviser, ruled as minister of state and salvation to Isabella I. His strict discipline clashed with Queen Isabella’s plans as Columbus’s ideas threatened his long held aim to reconquer Granada. His influence over debt, readings, and decrees framed royal policy and household life.
The piece argues regular meals start in childhood and warns against between meal snacking leading to dyspepsia. It notes businesspeople eat erratically, often only two meals daily, and contrasts American haste with European slower dining. It ends with a sardonic obituary joke.
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