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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1890
Page
6
The Register surveys a billionaire ruler Grover Putian’s long workday, recalls the Johnstown relief fund total of 4 116 801, and notes diaries and royal intrigues. It discusses whaling ports like New Bedford and New London, Siberia’s prison system, a Philadelphia patient’s peculiar needle removal, and Ugandan royal succession practices.
Bones of 230 French soldiers from the 1512 Russian campaign were moved to a new grave in Berlin after previous relocations for barracks. The article then notes varied travel tales and local anecdotes about riding, lectures, and curious names in Georgia, Maine, and Russia.
Dr Begosh questions Mrs Brindle about a patient’s diet. She recalls serving fried liver and onions and corned beef and cabbage as cheap meals, while the doctor warns against rich food. The dialogue exposes comedic miscommunication in medical care.
The article explains dissected wood maps used for the blind to assemble a full map of the United States and learn geography by touch. It notes how state shapes, rivers, towns, and city sizes are represented, and includes examples comparing Ohio and Texas. It also mentions globe aids and the educational value of geography in history.
A narrator recalls rural etiquette where a girl asks for vinegar with a cup marked by hair cracks and a broken brim, illustrating strict country manners. The tale shifts to Edward Irving, the 19th century preacher, whose imposing size sparked jokes and a humorous ferry miscue when a boatman mistook a horse for him.
In Hamimia's Pompei a missing child named Daisy is found asleep beside a haycock in a neighbor's field after a long search from garret to cellar. The reunion brings relief. Daisy credits her mother for finding her, while the father laments the scare.
A street scene unfolds with an itinerant fly screen salesman in Ludlow Street offering woven wire cloth screens to a silent cobbler. The pitch includes a five year warranty and a tongue in cheek economic argument about city flies and costs, ending with the agent’s retreat after a tense bargaining moment.
The piece recalls Walton known as the Plunger who left betting in 1884 and built a hotel career after a fortune from oil, whisky, and racing. He recounts profits and losses from Philadelphia politics and European bets, warns that horse-race money harms, and urges youth to invest in work. It also notes James Roberts, a Benton County giant, 7 ft 4 in tall and 825 pounds, and ends with a Ram's Horn excerpt about a St Louis husband’s attack on his wife.
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