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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1872
Page
3
Mount Vernon Indiana advertisements feature Thrall & Mumford selling Merrell remedies and shoes, Rosenbaum & Bro. promoting dry goods and shawls, and Sutu VAN SARUS Co offering cheap dry goods. Messages note political mentions, agricultural society meeting, and local business endorsement for the Register.
Citizens of Posey County are urged to vote on a special election set for the 31st for a $125,000 appropriation to aid the Cincinnati Rockport and Southwestern Railway. Critics claim the process aims to defraud voters by imposing a tax only if assurances are given the road will be built, citing the 1869 act. The piece notes a veteran pensioner, Thomas Anton of Robb township, age 83, who served in 1811 and fought at Tippecanoe, signing vouchers in town.
In brief items from a 19th century paper, electors debate a deceased candidate’s votes and Tennessee and Maryland cast for Henpricks, plus a fatal stab during a benzine fueled brawl. Indiana congressman Nisback visits, Macbeth Club reunion planned, epizootic disrupts travel and mail, editorials attack Morven and Oates. Retail ads promote Thrall Mumford toys and Kern & Davis dry goods.
Literary Notices in December issue review features William Astor portrait Ancient Human Crania and varied essays. Oxviver Optic's Magazine December includes concluding chapters of Little Bobtail and Winning his Spurs with four full page illustrations. Political shots target Dick Oglesby and Illinois with remarks from Missouri papers.
A Paris Archbishop refuses Molierc’s burial in consecrated ground, prompting a king to propose a grave twelve feet below to respect scruples. A Danbury traveler asks for a wig in a single letter home. A proverb likens beauty only marriages to cheap furniture varnish. A man admits error and grows wiser. Three Philadelphia women jailed for three months as common scolds.
Report from New Harmony Public Schools for the week ending December 5 1872 shows total pupils enrolled and daily attendance figures. It records the number of tardies and days absent, reflecting school activity and student attendance.
A fragmented ad style item notes a mother asking why the ocean is angry, answered as it is crossed often. It also promotes Mrs Whitcomb’s Syrup as a soothing maternal remedy priced at 25 cents and advertises Dr Butts Dispensary marriage guide at 50 cents with address in St Louis Missouri.
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