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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1882
Page
2
In Peking a wife fell for a purchaser who offered 130 dollars but failed to pay. Her husband refused release, the lovers drugged him, forged the bill of sale, and fled. They were caught during their wedding breakfast and jailed, then both died by their own hand in the dungeon.
Mr. OliverR Ames, long employed at Ames Shovel Works in North Easton since age 15 and now its superintendent, is named for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. His father Oakes Ames died owing $8 million. During the panic the son managed scattered Union assets and paid dollar for dollar, disbursed a million in legacies, leaving a surplus for residuary legatees.
A woman charged with causing her child’s death by denying nourishment was acquitted after investigation showed she fed the child corn starch with milk, ignorance of nutrition cited. The story serves as a warning to mothers and nurses about child diet. Then a note on the Duke of Athole as a major tree planter, and details of the Tay Bridge project and costs. It also includes a satirical ad scheme in New York and a stark vignette about Northwestern Dakota whites and Indian customs in marriage and mourning practices.
The article surveys grand apartment projects in New York including Navarro houses on Fifty-ninth street, W H Post near Central Park, and expected total costs over 10 million dollars. It notes Paris style ambitions, wholesale supplies for tenants, and the British army water sanitation pamphlets, plus a Talmage profile praising his oratorical memorization and public persona.
In a story from Chambers Journal, Lord Ellenborough and his wife travel to the assize town. He bans bandboxes under the seat but a bandbox is flung from the carriage, the coachman is urged to press on, and the wig is found missing after the box flies into a ditch. The tale ends with the puzzled lord seeking his wig.
A concise aphorism counseling restraint and humility for youth. It urges speaking little, listening more, reflecting privately on past events, doubting one’s own views, and valuing others who merit it.
The verse pleads for rest after toil, picturing a peaceful, rural farewell. It recalls a Christian Intelligencer imprint and invokes nature's imagery from roses to poplars. The speaker asks to lie where flowers bloom, near streams and winds, to be remembered no more in the field of memory.
In a July Sacremento City tale a miner known as Yankee Jim deposits $2,000 in dust at the Mutual Confidence and Trust Company before a voyage home. A financial collapse, a lonely shipboard death at sea, and a shipmate’s kit sale to fund a widow’s letter unfold as a grim frontier tragedy.
Charles Lamb was a shy bookish man and discerning critic who prized aged works and deep reading. He loved Cowper and Burns, admired Vincent Bourne, and praised the Elizabe than dramatists with rare insight, while admitting he was a poet in feeling rather than in durable accomplishment.
A Latin origin digest outlines ancient health maxims on diet and exercise. It urges moderation in meals and activity, proper digestion, varied meals, daily exercise, and cautious drinking. It cites Galen and Fulgentius to justify temperance and regimen, with specifics on bread, milk, fish, and shellfish.
Two girlfriends Mabel and Katie sit on a sofa and discuss faults while sharing candy. Their exchange reveals pride and selfishness as they swap criticisms and end with a frosty departure and silence between them.
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