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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1869
Page
1
Gauldwell and Whitney proprietors of the New York Mercury announce a new cash store opening at 128 Fulton Street New York City. The brief notice highlights a fresh retail venture and location without extra details.
Rates detail one square one column for varying insertions and durations with fractional squares counted as whole. Double charges apply for bear advertisements or notices in local columns. Prices listed include entries for two months and longer terms with multiple squares and lines.
A mosaic of short asides, jokes, and quotations from various papers notes celebrity quips, market tidbits, and local lore. Items mention a sign painter, a potter, Turkey and Greece, Minnesota’s library, a bald look, advertising ethics, oysters gift, Vermont letters, Universalists, New Orleans burglary, and other regional curios.
Senator Hendricks argues against a direct popular vote for a constitutional amendment and favors two ratification paths by state legislatures or conventions. He criticizes party pledges on universal suffrage, urges submitting the issue to the people via state conventions, and asserts the need to preserve loyalist guarantees while questioning electoral mandates from recent elections.
A column cites editor tastes in news titles from New York to Maine and Louisiana. It contrasts Homer Iliad credited items with Maine Loyal Sunrise and Charlestown Bun ker Hill Aurora, praising quirky names. It then offers a Kip Groves cleaning method for kid gloves using milk and brown soap for a soft glossy result.
In Paris a son of M. Bixie recalls a visit to his incarcerated father in Vincennes after the coup d etat. The 11 year old boy, pale and troubled, explains he felt certain the father would be chained to a wall in a dungeon, but the sight disappointed him.
A twenty year old fragment recalls a merry group of Scotchmen in a Western city. John B is named as a prominent member. One night after heavy drinking he sits on a dry goods box near his bachelor quarters while friends pass by and joke about his identity asking if he knows who Johnny B lives, with the reply that he is Johnny B himself.
A nostalgic speaker recalls childhood bonnets worn to school and fashion, noting the folly of youth. The verse contrasts a sister's charm a cousin's affection and a true first bonnet parting as the dearest love of all.
In this fragment from A Ruetonica and Loven the speakers Amelia and Aubelia exchange exaggerated vows and fantastical hyperbole about gathering stars and tearing the sun for love. The dialogue hints at dramatic romantic tension and dramatic poetic imagery.
A merchant who scolds tardy clerks with a ritual excuse hears a married employee blame family duties for arriving late. The boss repeats the warning in a brisk, nervous tone, urging punctuality and warning not to repeat the lapse. The odd phrasing reflects a dated, informal shop floor exchange.
A radical editor hints at future insights from personal experience about hanging. The passage notes a long list of publishing outcomes from 1,006 works, outlining that 600 never recoup printing costs, 200 percent cover expenses, 100 yield a small profit, and only 100 achieve real gains.
A pamphlet cited by the Indianapolis Mirror suggests two methods to quit tobacco. The first advises willpower, gentian root pepped by ten cents, then gradual cessation. The second extreme option proposes recording a will and arsenic, ending with self harm if the effort fails.
A historical listing details digestion times for multiple foods. Boiled rice and pig's feet digest in an hour, venison steak with whipped eggs and apples in an hour and a half, a broader set including roasted turkey beef and root vegetables reaches two and a half to three and a quarter hours, with fried beef and fowl dishes extending to four hours and roasted pork to five and a quarter hours.
A New York paper denounces contemporary women’s fashion calling it loud street costumes high heeled boots extravagant hats and gloves from Paris with exaggerated hairstyles jewelry and slangy jackets. It notes critics shut down protests by invoking Paris as justification.
A veteran officer, Be Will Cumback, disbursed sixty million dollars during the war but left penniless after purge and had to borrow to cover campaign expenses. Private Joites, who fought in sixty battles and skirmishes, lost a leg and ended up in the almshouse, unable to borrow for a loaf of bread.
In a natural history class a professor discusses a hen that allegedly can lay one hundred eggs in five years. An urchin interrupts suggesting selling the bird to a boarding house keeper as a spring chicken, highlighting a comical mischief scene.
A Council Bluffs Iowa citizen claims a ten acre Kalamazoo Michigan graveyard and notes the unlikely feud over occupancy. The passage reflects a bizarre fortune and certainty no one will challenge his claim.
The Sarosis of New York announces plans to publish a daily paper. Details include aims to serve readers with local and regional news and attract advertising support to sustain the new publication.
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