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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1891
Page
2
A collage of brief items including a California fruit dealer fined for infested oranges, a frightened horse in Indiana, declining oyster and cement markets, Monte Carlo dividends, a Cracow academy poem, and satirical anecdotes about gambling, debt, and fate. It notes German youth suicides, U S Supreme Court body servants, and the Star of India order.
A collection of brief notes covers the Knights of Victoria order details, New England population trends, Vermont's stagnant growth, quack medicines in Koch’s lymph era, goldfish origins, a prisoner’s wall-walking analogy, fashion critiques by Kath Firlip, private detectives’ scams exposing a merchant couple, inspector Byrnes’ crackdown, and the life of Tom late Henry P. Journeau, highlighting his frugal early years, marriage, and $2 million estate.
The Manufacturers' Record shows 3917 new manufacturing enterprises organized in the Southern States last year, bringing the five year total to over 17000. The period is marked by unprecedented activity with railroads crowded, banks expanding, and capital inflows boosting both agricultural and manufactured outputs.
An aged Barbara recalls a summer romance where a cheerful laborer dies in the mine while seeking gold for his beloved. Decades later, miners uncover the youth with golden hair and return him to the brook side where Barbara reunites in sorrow and love. Life's pain and Death’s union are celebrated.
Wallace recounts a 1876 buffalo hunt near the Big Horn in which he stalks and kills a lead bull, fights two Sioux or Crow warriors in a cave during a raging storm, and survives with wounds and meat for camp. He later notes he later went into mining and saved enough for rainy days.
Two men meet on North Clark Street at about 4 am. They argue about their tough lives and shifts, one a newspaper man and the other a baker. They reflect on hardship, work, and limited time with family, ending with each feeling a bit more content with his lot.
A Cincinnati tale recounts a jokester who bought a watch with a yearlong guarantee. The jeweler refunded five ten dollar bills when the watch ran a half minute fast, then offered to sell the watch for a higher price. The piece ends with a wry note on value and honesty.
An ad style notice cites a fable about self image and uses it to promote Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a universal blood purifier. It claims the remedy can cure pimples eruptions and scrofula, promising refunds if it fails. Worp's Dispensary Medical Association lists Buffalo New York address.
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