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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1890
Page
2
A collage of 16th century dress rules, military recruitment claims, letters taught by mothers, tailor myths, General Crook’s plainness, Persian royal wealth, naval gun flaws, authorial pseudonyms, Hale’s remarks on country towns, a blind Morristown family, an Atlanta coffin story, and European population growth trends since 1800.
Joseph T. Clark organized a branch of the Baltimore Society of Disappointed Lovers in Wilmington Delaware. A dozen prominent local men, including a lawyer and politicians, met at a hotel to hear Clark describe the mutual consolation society. Membership requires prior engagement that was broken by the fiancée. He denounced flirting as a chief cause of male woes. Ten men signed the constitution and shared courtship experiences.
In Onset Massachusetts a Dr Frazier, a Christian scientist, allegedly mesmerizes wealthy women to sign checks and follow him to treatments. Rumors of a ride on a rail swirl as residents and local press voice concern about the swindle and politics.
The article notes a small foreign-born presence in Congress with twenty-five foreign born delegates. It tallies origins by country and colony including Scotland England Ireland Germany Canada and the Isle of Man. It also highlights state by state representation, pinpointing New York Ohio and Pennsylvania connections across Senate and House.
The piece laments monotony in home life as many families repeat the same routines. It urges welcoming fresh faces and ideas after work to enliven domestic existence. It argues books and newspapers offer inexpensive, valuable recreation and instruction.
A New England factory superintendent sends Pat to clean office windows. Pat surprises clerks by being told to wash the windys in the firm's office and hesitates entering. He wonders aloud to be introduced before going in, highlighting humor from a polite misunderstandings in a crisp vignette.
In a classroom exchange a student asks about the familiar nickname for William Penn's followers. The student answers that they were addressed as "his nibs" by the professor who invokes the term in context.
A humorous verse sketches the solitary bachelor flooded with Valentine notes and cards from rival suitors and well meaning neighbors. A laundress interrupts as fate intervenes, leaving the bachelor friendless but amused by the matrimonial fantasies of youth.
In a frontier tale Bijah Bickerman, a lone cattleman, receives a valentine for his ward Ben and battles between love for widow Meeker and his bond with the boy. He ultimately declares he chose Ben forever, rejecting the widow's proposal.
The will of the late Nawal Hirbal-ud-Daula of Oudh, now dead in Bagdad, is an extensive self drawn document detailing his fortune and possessions. It directs careful handling of cash, valuables, and furniture, assigns outer and inner apartment holdings, and mandates fair sale of palace items while ensuring servants, male and female, receive due respect and compensation. The text emphasizes chastity, honor, and orderly departure for his harem and staff, with provisions for animals and surplus articles to be sold or stored.
A fragmentary quotation of Josh Billings humorously critiques talk, honesty, and human folly. The essay-style remarks discuss conversation noise, reckless blunders, whisky friends, and the value of money versus virtue with a late 19th century tone. The speaker offers paradoxical wisdom about temper, profit from errors, and the limits of foresight.
A Cleveland Plata Dealer letter recalls a slick Chicago horseman who convinced nine men in Syracuse to gamble $100 each. The plan to marry a presumed widow at the depot within an hour succeeded when the man and the chosen woman wed with witnesses. The ruse exposed the con before more victims could be harmed.
Two men on Clark Street in Chicago share a comic clash where one complains of being spit on and the other thanks him for the notice, leading to a brutal knockout. A separate tale follows an army officer who confronts a wary tablemate and learns the lady at the center is under a guardian’s care, then praises the army’s restraint. A short quip notes a girl’s kiss is appreciated when she’s old enough.
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