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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1883
Page
2
The Register remarks on an editor’s attack during a Beecher lecture and notes the Brooklyn bridge debt interest at 750000 with net earnings around 50000 yearly. It questions where 700000 will originate. It compares New York and London population growth from 1800 to present.
The report shows 38 162 new names added to pension rolls and 796 pensions dropped in the past fiscal year, totaling 38 958 pensions with a 10 545 excess over the prior year. As of June 30 1883 the number of pensioners enrolled stood at 303 658.
Dr. Jackson, an English surgeon residing in India, was killed by hornets during a tiger hunt. He endured over 200 stings and died from erysipelas that followed. His hunting companion survived thanks to his servant who dragged him to safety in the jungle.
A French inventor with a solar ray powered motive machine operates three units for the government in Algeria and conducts trials at Porquerolles near Hyères threshing corn and raising water by sun. Hedermayer and Guerrero, pushing two wheelbarrows for a $2000 purse, begin from San Francisco en route to Cheyenne and New York with plans to report in mid March. An inmate of Togus Asylum, who received 1800 back pension last August, vanished to Boston then returned home with no money. Maine divorces rose to 587 last year, up from twenty years prior, while New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York show similarly rising trends.
The article reports on two spotted twin babies, two years nine months old, born to Mary Jones a full blood Black mother from Alabama. It details their unusual white marks and a white tuft, with a secondary note about a debt saga involving Col Bob Ingersoll and Dr. Cowan from Tennessee. It also mentions Illinois Central Railroad and its reach from Caro to Chicago and Galena, plus historic links to New Orleans.
The new Winona Alma and Northern railroad will run along the east shore of the Mississippi from Alma opposite Winona to the state’s commercial center. Officials describe it as a grand trunk road uniting North and South and a bond reducing sectional prejudice through rail transport.
The marble floor of the State, War, and Navy Departments features black and white diamond patterns with fossil shaped snail like figures. In front of Chandler's door there is a skull design about three inches across and near the Chief Clerk’s room a dog head appears. Further along a tailless dancing bear is visible in another stone.
Thirty five years ago John Bantwell and Miss Jane Campbell wed near Elamville Alabama and later separated without divorce. Bantwell urged resumption of marriage to protect his homestead, they renew vows. Also New York Tribune reports Charles Francklyn imported polled bulls. one bull injured two workers, causing fatal internal injuries to one.
A Boston Cazette item sketches social chatter at a fashionable club window where a lounger notes a passing beauty while a second explains her brother is the town’s worst poker player. At a luncheon table a remark about a certain lady’s age provokes astonishment and a lesson in social tact.
Prov Brown outlines dairy yields and processing ratios for cows and discusses seed sowing for clover, bee keeping anecdotes, manure composition guidance, and a farming temperament piece. The compilation includes poultry egg rates by breed, pasture pig rearing advice, and career guidance for young workers toward skilled trades.
A reflection warns that debt pressures may deter effort yet suggests the good farm remains a viable lure for a young man willing to work. It urges turning surplus milk and rotting fruit into value, and calls for a skilled engineer to improve farm-to-market transport and road infrastructure for better efficiency.
A collection of rustic recipes covers Chicken Pie Rye Tra Cakes Tripe Curry Grery Pras Sea son with butter and milk Potato Rosis and more. It includes directions for Boiled Cabbage Terr Prerit and a Codfish preparation with mashed potato and bread crumbs. Each item gives ingredients, measurements, and cooking steps.
An amateur shows a traveling merchant an old artist’s portrait. The artist directs him through steps to adjust distance and door position, then laughs as the traveler's entry ends with a locked door. The piece contrasts a joke with a stat, noting 200000 commercial travelers in the US and an estimated 600 million annual employer cost. It also claims one in five Mormons is a polygamist.
In Rio de Janeiro narrow streets such as Rua do Ouvidor and Rua da Quitanda house fine shops and diamond displays that dazzle visitors. Pedestrians dodge fast moving loads from mule teams and coffee trucks, with no protection at crossings, while a curious curbside rule restricts painting house corners at street intersections.
The text explains a traffic diagram for Rua da Alfandega aimed at guiding Tilbury drivers and other street users in Rio. It details route choices to avoid collisions, observes crowded streets with varied pedestrians, and praises waterfront parks and the Botanical Garden as oases amid hot pavements, noting the absence of visible police on the grass.
Ned Stallard of Ripon, a keen speculator, bought a nearly hundred pound sturgeon in Oshkosh hoping to sell cuts through Bittel's market. He hype spin about brain food and public chatter failed, the fish remained unsold, and Bittel buried it at the slaughterhouse after Ned denied ownership. The episode ended with Ned's banishment from the pair for a month.
A father and son, Johnnie and his father, share a humorous moment as Johnnie stretches a rubber band and plucks it like a instrument. The father jokes about creating music and claims he has made music by a leather band, recalling a playful mishap with snapping bands.
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