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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1874
Page
1
A humorous excerpt shows a spelling lesson where a teacher guides John through letters A B C D E and challenging names. The dialogue reveals classroom mischief and strict discipline as the instructor tests recognition and pronunciation amid playful confusion.
A daughter of a prominent lecturer questions a recently separated guest at tea provoking a tale of marital separation. The infant asks why they do not live together and urges them to fight it out like ma and pa do. The moment ends in a shared joke as others react. The column also notes two million beehives yielding honey and wax, totaling about 8 million dollars in revenue.
A historic salary list from the 14th week of the 49th Park Theater season shows Edmund Simpson at $50 weekly as lessee and acting manager, with Thomas Barry at $50, Charles Bass at $35, John Dyott $34, and others including George Barrett $30 and two Andrews at $25 and $15. The list notes fines against several male performers, while ladies' salaries range from $12 to $25 weekly. The piece also touches on theatre life and a later note about Jane Burke and Mrs Vernon amid a broader panorama of journalism and street life.
An archival fragment reflects on the enduring memory of vanished children. The passage contrasts presence with remembrance, noting that true connection endures after departure and imagination sustains the bond beyond life. An odd closing line mentions an advertising reference.
Oliver Wendell Holmes stirs New England with a call for physicians to make the last hours of a hopelessly ill patient as painless as possible. He argues the doctor should claim the art of procuring a painless passage out of the world within practicable limits and without violating proprieties of the closing scene.
Anoration on advertising as the path to recognition in business, politics, and social life. It argues publicity builds names and success, contrasts obscurity with popularity, and offers a light anecdote about a rustic tea guest. It closes with a quip about a lazy boy and a sleeping judge.
A historical essay argues that smoking could ease petty worries for women and strengthen domestic harmony. It suggests women smoking in private or at home would reduce public prejudice, improve mood, and create fellowship with husbands, portraying tobacco as a universal stimulant.
A compact reflection on famous figures Peter Cooper Horace Greeley Patrick Henry the founder of the New York Herald Stephen A Douglas Abraham Lincoln, and others who endured repeated failures before achieving lasting influence in business journalism and public life.
A Berlin experimenter shows iron filings sprinkled on a powerful magnet ignite from a spirit lamp flame. The filings align along magnetic lines forming a porous sponge of air, then burn brightly as the magnet is waved, producing a magnificent ring of fire when viewed from a slight elevation. Subscribe for The Register.
A German traveler describes an African man’s elaborate hair styling and body adornments. Hair forms range from cockscomb to sun-ray shapes, held by gum and ashes, with shells on hoops. Women keep hair simple while aiding husbands in grooming. The man adds teeth, ivory ornaments, hippopotamus necklaces, and body paint in geometric patterns.
A Whitehall man on the Troy line learns from a Rutland traveler that editor Wilkins of the Whitehall Times is closely connected with the Rutland man’s wife. The Rutland man, enraged yet loyal, offers $5 for Wilkins’s paper, hoping to keep the money he spent on a subscription. Globe fragment ends with stray letters and garbled text.
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