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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1882
Page
2
A collage of notes recounts Barnum betting $20,000 for the handsiest woman in America, Cambria's December payroll totaling $115,000, and Curvenant's electric mast in an American city. Obits, social reform talk, and curious crimes mix with oil of lore about longevity, a secret Guardian Angels society, and a French incident involving a boyish colored man.
A Boston Journal owner’s wealth and his widow’s subsequent divorce bid draw attention to riches and happiness. Elsewhere, three men in a Boston incident stage a put up robbery. American and Scotch potato import trends, yields, and drought impacts are also reported, noting shifts from 1870 onward.
A Philadelphia journalist William H. Cunningham describes a nocturnal ramble begun after neck stiffness. He endures a snow storm to reach the Chestnut Street Opera House, travels home in a blocked car, and after using St Jacobs Oil, recovers with full neck mobility by the next day, per the Boston Herald.
The Literary World recommends including maps with novels that have a geographic setting to enhance realism. Domestic, interior works need no maps, but geographically based plots benefit from them. The Cincinnati Daily notes Tim Gleeson’s rheumatism relief with Jacobs Oil, leading to a cure. Akrom Beacon.
A reflective fragment notes laziness and idle pastime amid verse and prose, exploring love, debts, wasted ink, and a pipe’s smoke as the mind drifts. The speaker recalls past encounters, failed letters, and unanswered wishes while questioning meaning, ending with a hint of London Society.
A French historian recounts Catherine the Second jokingly ordering the stuffing of a favored Englishman Sonderland, only to reveal a misread royal mandate, as the Empress discovers the prank ends with laughter and forgiveness while the officer and taxidermist survive and dinner with the Empress follows.
A gentleman at the South Norwalk Depot helped a woman who nearly toppled on the platform. She tried to steal what she thought was her bag, but the man’s courtesy revealed his own unattended valise. The incident ends with the lesson that politeness pays, according to the New Haven Palladium.
Fragmentary passage critiques journalists reliance on the term leading man in coverage, noting that many public figures are labeled as leading while actual status or respectability varies and the army context emerges in the excerpt.
A new regular correspondent laments the obsession with "leading citizens" at major gatherings. The piece mocks the exclusive circle and predicts a wave of other prominent social types such as rag-pickers, grave-robbers, beggars, and paupers gaining attention as leading figures.
In a Peck's Sun item, a notorious Seventh Ward man and his young son terrorize visiting women with a revolver firing blank cartridges. The family’s return triggers screams and near panic as bystanders fear bullets, only to learn the stunt was a two week training game. The scene ends with the man claiming it was all blanks as women demand punishment.
In a Burlington Hawkeye piece the Jester recalls a ride with a princess who used a parasol to shield him from the road. The parasol repeatedly blocked view, jabbed his eye, and provoked physical discomfort as they traveled, illustrating a humorous yet pointed critique of constrained chivalry and courteous excess. A separate line notes toad head secretions acting as an irritant in reptiles and humans.
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