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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1890
Page
2
A long miscellany notes Mormon growth in Canada, counts newspaper failures in San Diego, and jokes about sleepless plans. It cites German army retirements, language speaker totals, and a physician linking whip cracking to homicidal mania. It recounts a mad dog in Athens and women in printing, hypnotic illness in St Petersburg, a cannibal tale from Portland, a shy flirt reply, a London fakir industry, and Vienna doctors in panic.
A sixteen month fraud unravels as Patroner, a dry goods clerk with forged diplomas, treated patients in a large city hospital. He was arrested for forgery and embezzlement in his shop, is jailed, and the case warns about dangerous wires and rail systems, with other assorted notes and anecdotes.
A writer asks the editor of a partisan paper what is hardest to write. The editor replies that the truth is the most difficult aspect to report. The exchange takes place at a social gathering as documented in the Arkansaw Traveler.
A New York Weekly quip portrays a row between a patron and a doctor over a claimed cure for consumption. The patron cites their son’s death after a year on the medicine. The doctor blames noncompliance and insists his instructions were to be followed for two years.
A St Louis sub-editor recalls a years old Pinkerton shadowing during the Cummings express robbery of 1876. The detective chase, a letter from Jim Cummings, and a lake voyage with a New Orleans cotton broker led to the reveal that the writer was not Cummings and that the observer had been unknowingly under surveillance. The incident ends with the shadowing failing to capture the real criminal.
The article discusses sizing issues, noting that the subject has been wearing a size or half-size too large. It analyzes impacts on fit, comfort, and footwear performance.
A New York Sun clipping describes crab fights at a quiet New Jersey shore. Spectators in Beach Haven and Tom’s River watched a Buffalo champ and a Tom’s River challenger in a $25 match. The Beach Haven crab fled while the Tom’s River opponent mauled the retreating crab. The bout drew about a hundred onlookers and $60 in gate money for the Tom’s Liver man.
The 1893 Columbian ExpositionShould showcase American plant and insect specimens to display horticulture allied sciences.Exhibits would include a complete herbarium of American plants wood sections dried plant collections and grasses and forage crops. Scientific societies governments horticulturists botanists entomologists and agricultural officials would contribute and coordinate through departments in Washington and the Smithsonian Institute.
In Washington and British Columbia fir leaves condense moisture on bright days with humidity near the dew point. Dripping ceases by mid morning and resumes at sunset, a phenomenon noted alongside historical reports of weeping trees supplying drink on Ferro and in Guinea. A Baker City resident paid $120 freight for two trotters from England.
A collection of brief notes includes the oldest wooden vessel Polly of Owl's Head built in 1804 in Amesbury Massachusetts, a spine-less girl in Worcester, lightning and fire in Kansas, calendar quirks for February and July, a five century olive tree in Beaulieu France, giant oysters in Port Lincoln Australia, a London Times manuscript feat, bagpipe phonograph act in London, a jail guard nose-cutting incident in Multan, Brazilian burial scarlet customs for unmarried women, Alexandrite stone from India, a stolen muzzle loader found in a log near Crass Valley, and Timore Hong Kong floating hotel plans with three decks and many rooms.
A Boston municipal court chaos centers on a prisoner’s exact words about drunkenness in a theft case. The magistrate presses for the precise pronoun and the prisoner’s own phrasing, while the witness fights to avoid misquoting.
A Missouri Pacific train tale recounts a perilous dash from Garrett Indiana to St Louis with an out of control engine. The Master Mechanic ordered oil on the chute track saving the crew as the 642 slid uphill and finally stopped. The first six miles flew by in under five minutes before speed slowed.
An old Bangor tale recalls Jabe Pond a sidewalk character who slept in a hearse. On a funeral night the hearse driver panicked at a phantom figure and fled. Pond calmly took over the reins and resumed his sleep in town, finding a lodging house suitable for his rest.
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