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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1872
Page
1
A humorous period piece from The Register presents a mock love letter filled with hyperbolic, florid metaphors. The narrator details intense passion, dramatic longing, and vivid, if playful, comparisons to nature and everyday imagery, ending with a wistful sign-off.
A mosaic of brief notes reports diverse items from Georgia to New York. Mentions include Redheffer Bros in Ivanens City, Sa vapnal Ga, fruit tree yields, Shakspeare at the Chicago Post, Empress of Austria wardrobe costs, and a National Prison Reform Congress in Baltimore.
In Barbary, pacing horses are held in high esteem and a method to induce a spirited trot is described. A leaded feathered ring around each hoof with weights and cords to the saddle, plus a horizontal strap from the hind foot, restrains the animal to a shorter step. Repetition trains the gait, enabling a settled amble once the habit is formed.
Nellie Grant and Bor Winter are featured as fashion guides for Washington winter wear. The Louisville Courier notes Nellie’s trip to Paris for silk and lace fabrics and describes an elaborate style inspired by royalty with diamonds, pearls, and striking makeup. The piece urges young women to imitate the trendsetters and adopt the graceful glamour.
A fragmentary, era-spanning reminiscence argues Shakespeare’s trades including printer. It cites Bindes and Abessia Trabner claiming Shakespeare edited a Boston journal, learned printing terms, and collaborated with Wilson Adams Sumner to shape Civil War era politics in London and beyond.
A Hewtchy paper reports Butler’s Saturday inquiry into a Friday fire at Br. Wilcox’s house on Mteveeca Street. He concludes spontaneous combustion caused the blaze, linked to phosphorous from roach poison spread near a window frame. The account also mentions electricity experiments and a rural joke, ending with a Walpole, Iowa girl dislocating and redoging her shoulder.
A Native legend from the Red River Indians explains mosquitoes as punishment for killing a white wolverine who emerged as an old woman promising abundance if treated well. After deception and killing, a skull spawned insects that afflicted the tribe with plague, earning mosquitoes their timeless punishment. A second vignette describes a small town puzzled by a shopfront notice titled Mrs Brown Dealer in all Sorts of Ladies, later revealed as a straw woman and the painter’s mischief with a follow up line about Gentlemen's Yorring Apparel.
A fragment from Bel Fast Maine exposes a sharp eyed con, selling shoddy wares under false claims, then details wild diversions on oysters in Chesapeake Bay, a supposed remedy using raw egg white for fish bone, and a curious teaching moment about oblongs that ends in a racial slur. It also uncovers folk cures with pine tar and lard for skin ailments.
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