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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1882
Page
1
The Register shows annual subscription at $150 in advance and outlines advertising charges for squares, local notices, quarter to whole column sizes with monthly to yearly terms. It notes payment rules, arrearage policy, and prepayment requirements for transient ads and job-work.
The Sun boasts record readership and broad reach, claiming accuracy and fearless reporting every day. It promotes its role as a mirror of human activity and a defender of honest government, urging readers to recognize its many valued angles and benefits for the coming year.
The SUN offers daily mail subscriptions at 55 cents monthly and 6.50 yearly with Sunday 7.70. Sunday edition eight pages costs 1.20 yearly. Weekly is 1 a year, eight pages from daily content plus farm, market, and domestic intelligence. Clubs of ten with 10 dollars receive an extra copy free. Publisher I W England, 24 Tat Bun Street, New York City.
EF Owen & Co advertise patents and a wide array of table and pocket cutlery in endless variety at affordable prices. The notice emphasizes actual value to buyers and invites readers to inspect the collection for quality and savings.
A patchwork of county brief items reports on Mt. Vernon area life including Dave Alexander building a residence eight miles from Mt. Vernon, changes at Mt. Vernon Sun advertising, local politics, farming notes, crime sentences, railroad work, school attendance, and regional economic tidbits from Carmi, Princeton, Enfield, and nearby towns with scattered industry and weather notes.
National Capitol dispatch notes widespread unease among government workers over elections, with clerks predicting continued spoils politics post 1884. Reports in multiple departments cite arrears, neglect, and alleged larceny, while observers discuss star-route thieves and potential Senate shifts. Also covers Fisk item on fish shipments, Sherman's political stance, and graft concerns.
Governor-elect Pattison rejects the State Fencibles baton escort offer, saying public inauguration should be simple and undemonstrative. He emphasizes oath taking costs the people nothing and that only voluntary attendance should occur, with no public displays.
A Denver Tribune bulbous miscellany reports Bill Nuckells a prospector surviving a 40 foot shaft by lashing snakes, while North) fishing poles are harvested near the Big Black river. It notes immense mail routes to Manitoba, philanthropy to heathen causes, and wildly varied stats on bounty, industry, and population.
The dispatch reports 4,923,451 adults over ten unable to read and 6,239,958 unable to write in the United States, with illiteracy concentrated in the South. It notes Democratic gains in California elections, large potato crop production, and other assorted civic data such as immigration, Senate re-election, and railroad activity.
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