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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1879
Page
4
A Paris confectioner asks a tailor for 125 of 150 due and promises to return for the remaining 25. Minutes later the confectioner pays 125 cream tarts and a bill for balance. Soon after both men search for a well dressed gentleman with a new overcoat swallowed by the city in a brisk, bustling chase.
A husband with a $25000 yearly salary is pressured by his wife to join the elite. She nags for better clothes and status, prompting him to steal from his employer. He gambles on street work, grows bold, is caught amid defalcation, and ends in prison. The piece warns that society punishes the loser more than the achiever.
A literary husband and wife exchange quips over his article. She corrects many errors saying he misuses grammar by treating the sex as plural yet writing singular. He replies that he cannot help it because woman is a singular being.
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