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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1876
Page
1
The Register announces subscription costs of 150 dollars yearly in advance or 2 dollars monthly, with strict enforcement and no discontinuation until all arrears are paid. Advertising rates list one square inserts, column choices, and discount plans, with all transient ads prepaid and job work due on delivery.
In a Paris garret tale, a young composer Fernando hides his talent and love for Mlle La C-, a famed prima donna. When his song is misread as theft, he is jailed, while La C- sings his work to fame, transforming his tragedy into a celebrated craze.
An incident aboard a Kansas Pacific train near Abi Jones features a red faced man threatening riders who won’t back Hayes and Wheeler. A Texas passenger defies the bully, declaring support for Tilden, while the scene ends with comic bravado and a shock of rigid political theater.
The Chinese Embassy head Mandarin Mung, in Marseilles with six in his party, chats with a confident Englishman who claims to own the train and locomotive. The man offers to sell both for ten thousand francs and issues a receipt. At the next stop he vanishes, leaving Mung wiser in Paris.
An agricultural authority estimates 1,000,000 acres under irrigation in the Valley of the Po. The increased rental value from irrigation is about 4,150,000 dollars annually. Canals total over 4,500 miles in Lombardy including main lines and branches.
In the face of the uncertain presidential contest the newspaper paragraphist shifts back to light humor. The piece mocks a mate’s hind leg while noting the Republic’s recuperative energies as remarkable.
Dr Reclam argues converting the Sahara into a sea and piercing the Suez Isthmus could alter global climates. He cites Torres Strait warming from reduced seas and warns Europe and Germany may face a colder future without the warm winds from Africa. The London Examiner notes his opposition to extending water.
Codfish along Newfoundland shores are split washed and laid on spruce boughs to bleach. They are sorted into merchantable for best markets Madonna for second quality and dun for home use. Exported fish reach hot countries via screw powered rigs and shiploads go to Greece Spain and Portugal.
The London Agricultural Gazette argues against keeping old hens for egg production. Early pullets yield more eggs, while old hens fatten but stop laying. Judicious mating with a youthful cock can still produce high quality offspring, but the rule favors pullets served by new stock.
A Cassell's Magazine excerpt describes a river in Algeria formed by ferruginous soil iron-rich waters and peat swamp gallic acid. The confluence yields genuine ink, inviting a hypothetical colony of authors along its banks with paper mills, esparto grass fields, and pens supplied by the inky flood.
In Washington a curious countryman touches a Mercury statue and learns from a clerk that the figure is quicksilver not bronze. The exchange highlights rural wonder at a simple bronze Mercury and a joke about its identity and uses in thermometers.
A San Antonio hotel clerk helped a frontier traveler by giving him a signed bond for appearance before the recorder. He advised the guest to use the bond when arrested for drunkenness, telling the man to show the bond to a policeman to be escorted home. The anecdote, from the San Antonio Herald, highlights local hospitality.
A historical recipe scene describes stewing oysters with liquor water salt pepper butter and crackers. It instructs heating until boiling then timing thirty seconds before serving, emphasizing not to boil oysters in milk and noting rough transcription errors in the OCR.
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