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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1871
Page
4
A Rochester correspondent offers a brash, comic stroll from Syracuse to Rochester, lampooning passengers with sharp, vivid portraits. He mocks a widish woman, a Hamlet-haunted man, and a chaplain, weaving humor through travel misadventures and local lore, including Genesee Falls and Sam Patch, ending with a sly sign-off.
An undertaker, closing a coffin, says he cannot tell which coffin when two women beside him start a heated talking match likely to end in one death. A Minnesota schoolteacher who whipped one of his pupils to death has fled the region by rail aboard a three cornered train.
A fragment from a dramatic notice mentions Corsets the best liness at and a figure titled John Br. Augo’s with cryptic references to an ending of a demi-skeleton and steel-something, reflecting an odd historical advertisement or notice.
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