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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1878
Page
1
The Twentieth Annual Fair of the Posey County Agricultural Society will be held at the Fair Grounds in New Harmony Indiana from September 10 to 13 1878. President Robt Charke and Secretary F D Bolton announce the event open to the world.
The March 1878 Posey County Commissioners Court reports a ditch route from near the Black River Levee through V P Bozeman and adjacent lands to the Gale Ford on Black River. The Viewers’ report will be heard September 4, 1878, at the September term. Interested parties are notified.
The March Term commissioners court appoints viewers to survey a two mile ditch draining lands of local owners around New Harmony and Grayville. A hearing will determine the assessment and enactment at the September 3 1878 term. Auditor Posey County. APPLication FOR LICENSE: notice of applying for a license to retail spirits and malt liquors on lot 95 Main street New Harmony Indiana. nu. 7
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A lyrical scene of two youths meeting beside a sunlit river and renewing vows as they drift along. They pledge lifelong love beneath cloudless skies, then face the sea's dangers together. The verse urges steadfast devotion and mutual protection against storms and tempests.
A lyrical meditation on virtue exalted as the true gem beyond diamonds and flowers. It lauds the heart that remains steadfast through storm and time, praising love and friendship as the godlike pair whose throne is unshakable, impervious to gold or decay.
A brief lyric urging love for love itself not for appearances pity or comfort. The speaker asks the beloved to love not for smile tone or words but for love's sake alone so love may endure beyond time or change.
An English judge cites cases and verse to define drunkenness for juries. He notes intoxicated equals knowing and caring, drunk equals neither knowing nor caring what one does. Interspersed, quirky exchanges illustrate the theme with humorous quips and dialogue.
A complacent rake narrator discovers his uncle intends him to wed Mrs Gordon the healthy widow with an infant granddaughter. He meets a young vivacious widow in Sethan whose charm clashes with the odd fate of marrying an elderly matron. The encounter shifts his view on love, fortune, and duty.
A narrator pursues a widow for love against his family and a scheming grandmother. He confronts age, marriage, and treachery as he discovers the widow’s deception and the grandmother’s revelations. A tension between affection, wealth, and social expectations drives the dramatic encounter in the Court.
In Santa Clara Echo, the editor, proudly deaf, recounts a comical encounter with a lone female book agent. She pitches a book, but the editor jokes about marriage and bigamy, uses a makeshift ear trumpet, and dismisses her with blunt, humorous remarks ending with a loud exit and a slam.
A New York widow loses $12,000 once hers as lawyers profit. Administrator A J Rogers, then Isaac W Dayton, mismanage funds. Dayton paid $4,400 in court claims and bills, while Mrs Bingham is ruled to have no redress. The widow later becomes insane and is sent to an asylum.
description explains that heat lightning is just light from distant thunderclouds or air reflections seen on calm summer evenings. It may originate from storms hundreds of miles away and does not include audible thunder.
The Gleneagle won the long voyage from Han Kow to Gravesend in thirty seven days, one hour and four minutes, carrying nearly two million pounds of tea from China to London. The margin over the Glenfoulas near Dover was twenty seven minutes, indicating a close race.
A wealthy Brooklyn resident, guided by spirits, erected a monument for his dead wife’s unborn son, naming the spirit Charles. The tale frames a sorrowful tribute rooted in mystical belief and personal loss.
In a light exchange between Mrs A and Mrs B, the talk turns to an apiary. Mrs B admits fear of monkeys, adding a humorous twist to their garden plans and social visit.
A romantic young woman in London secured a coveted dinner seat beside the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. The only remark he made to her was that he preferred his mutton cut in wedges.
A boy with a patched knee cannot be hired for the errand to the next house but will follow a bout wages through town, unaware that his friend is dressed in padded clothes.
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