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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1882
Page
1
The Register lists publication terms with annual price $150 payable in advance and notes on discontinuance. It details advertising rates for squares, fractional squares, columns, and whole columns, with payment rules for local notices, legal ads, and job work.
A lengthy list records seventeen real estate transfers totaling 18313 33 4 with mortgages of 9965 00. Notable entries include A L Mussy to A M Hoffmann for lot 23 James & Hovey Mt Ver and G W Meadows to T A Overton for 40 acres. Right of Way Deeds for the E and W R R total 84 deeds valued at 6162 88. Fredericktown Illinois reports a fatal shooting Thomas Miller killed Ann Robinson on his property.
Reports in the Mt. Vernon Republican describe a live ghost in Marrs township haunting a German man Maien s chin and his family. Witnesses claim poltergeist activity including disassembled reaping machines, clothes and jewelry moved, and objects placed unexpectedly as terror grips the household.
Licenses have been issued by the Clerk of the Posey Circuit Court up to date to named couples including Lamoine Pritchard and Catherine Albrits John Gregory and Mary M. Moore Frank Rutherford and Alice Hazleton James E. May and C. E. Endicott Thomas T. Palmar and Lillian V. Ford Jacob Tillett and Henrietta Williams Wm. L. Jenkins and Ella O’Bleness Elisha Allyn and Laura E. Lewis Jourdon Hancock and Sarah Ann Bruce. G. W. CURTIS Clerk. Hanr's VeGErasLe Sicmitan HAI RENEWER is a hair restorer claiming to restore color cure dandruff and promote glossy hair endorsed by medical men and the Massachusetts State Assayer. For sale by dealers.
Ericsson's new torpedo boat destroyer tested a submerged 15 foot dummy projectile against a 35 by 12 foot target anchored near the Constitution. Captain Selfridge and others observed. the gun fired a 30 foot breech loader with 18,300 pound weight and 340 pounds of gun cotton explosive to be used in combat.
Captain Cheyne travels from New York to Montreal to drum up Anglo American support for a North Pole balloon expedition. Plans include three 20,000 dollar balloons, Grinnell as ship name, and a June 1883 departure from New York with seventeen men plus three Esquimaux, aiming for St Patrick Bay and a polar landing within ten miles.
Special to the Register from New York shows a mix of social satire and tech fantasy. It reports on smallpox scare, vaccination fashions, nautical atlas notes, naval armor ideas, a Tennessee near-sinking accident, and a large tea and tobacco warehouse fire with graft rumors. It also recounts a Hebrew customs incident and provides census data on Indian school children.
The Laquirer's Richmond correspondent recounts a fatal steamboat explosion at West Point on the York river. The West Point caught fire after an explosion with 500 barrels of gasoline, trapping fourteen negro stevedores in an iron hold. A lone boy aboard survived, while the crowd on shore watched. The town mourns as families lose kin and business halts.
Washington records document the first public White House reception of the winter social season, as President Arthur hosts diplomats and cabinet members on New Year’s Day. The East Room and parlor suites were lavishly decorated, with Palm plants, floral arrangements, and the Marine Band enhancing the event.
In Stewartsville on January 2 1882 residents bid greetings for the new year. A church and schoolhouse Christmas tree raised 26 dollars, though crops were poor. Sabbath school grows with new members. Reports of sickness and mail delays stir concern. Local real estate fears near the station and new houses rise on Demberger Fuul addition. A schoolhouse incident involved an ax and a locked-out teacher. Partridges are shot. pew sales at Plymouth church fall short by 3 988 dollars. Sara Bernhardt's Russia engagement priced at 100 000. Governors Rusk and Cameron inaugurated. Buatne misses the president’s reception. Smallpox spreads to 37 Illinois cities and towns. Deals in clothing offered by Henry Brown and El F Owen stores.
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