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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1884
Page
1
The Register lists Friday publication details for Co. Ww. Slater with advertising rates. One square 12 lines costs 100 per insertion, with multi insertion and duration discounts. Local column notices are 10 cents a line each insertion. Legal ads provided by law and advance payment required.
A sharp political column mocks the 1880s party lineup with imagined cabinet posts for Biarne, critiques Cleveland and Blaine, notes navy spending and corruption claims, and reports on reactions in New York, Illinois Germans, and Maryland district conventions shaping support for Cleveland and Hendricks.
Ex-Speaker Keifer may open a Washington law office signaling a future as a lobbyist. In labor circles colored craftsmen face lower wages and limited entry into unions, influencing strikes. Politicians debate Butler and Blaine’s impact on Cleveland and the West. A 8 foot 2 inch Florida rattlesnake specimen heads to the U.S. museum. Postmaster salaries show hundreds earning below 10 dollars yearly. Tennessee county elections swing Democratic. Watches hidden in Bibles reach Canada. Hailstorm hits Lone Tree Valley with six inches in ten minutes. Texas cotton prices nine cents per dozen in some markets. Crevetano, C. reports 227,760 population.
Hon James Speed of Kentucky, Lincoln era attorney general and sole surviving cabinet member, repudiates Blaine at Democratic debate. In a June 19 1864 letter from Louisville he warns against Blaine on foreign policy and tariff surplus, contemplates voting Democratic or third party, but rejects those paths. Speed pledges not to vote for Blaine and pledges friendship.
The Express extols Grover Cleveland as a worthy Buffalo citizen and public servant on the first ever Buffalo nomination for president. It lauds his integrity and public trust, urges unity for the city, and notes expected party defeat ahead. Also reports brief items: Soron Cyase backs Blaine, Marmaduke for Missouri governor, Indiana Prohibitionists on St. John ticket, 85 mills making olive oil from cotton seed, an eastern quake, John Kelly’s stance, Buntye's wealth, and yellow fever affecting cattle in Mexico.
A compilation of global notes claims Colorado grass crops may reach 30 million dollars this year while Brooklyn grows to 700000 residents. It notes coal in northern Mexico, U S trade with Australia, candy output, and many curious items from science, industry, and daily life.
A Lafayette owner, M Fowler, holds the nation’s largest farm north of Ohio and east of Illinois in Benton County, with 25 000 to 30 000 acres fenced and cultivated worth about 1 000 000 dollars. He grows 10 000 acres of corn, aims for 40 bushels per acre, harvests 5 000 tons hay on 2 500 acres, and recently sold 48 000 dollars of stock. The column also details local deaths, accidents, a sturgeon sighting, a St John prohibition club, a boiler explosion, census figures, and various Illinois news items.
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