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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1876
Page
1
Dry Goods and Clothing House invites shoppers to inspect newly arrived stock. Through close buying and cash payments, the firm claims greatly reduced rates across dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, hats and caps. It touts Alpacas, Merinos, Poplins, Bombazines, and dress goods plus linens and flannels as abundant bargains for fall and winter stock.
An advertisement invites buyers to purchase entire wardrobes from paper collars to full broadcloth suits with an overcoat, offering coats, vests, pants, and any article of wearing apparel to interested persons.
The store advertises cheap prices across Piece Goods and ready to wear including broadcloths jeans doeskins imported cassimeres tweeds and all first class clothing Notions collarettes belts corsets ties gloves lace edgings sashes hosiery ruffs and more all in stock at competitive rates.
Lichtenbergers announces new fall trade items with a complete line of fall and winter overcoats designed to suit any taste. Fresh arrivals promise quality fabrics and style across multiple sizes for the seasonal wardrobe.
A local retailer touts a large affordable collection of Staple Domestics and Standard Prints featuring well known brands. The ad emphasizes low prices and attractive variety appealing to shoppers seeking value.
A newspaper note highlights reduced prices in dry goods and shoes sections. It emphasizes that boots and shoes now come with superior inducements and bargains, inviting shoppers to visit the store for discounts.
The passage pledges adaptable products suited to any buyer, emphasizing suitable price, size, and quality. It suggests readiness to accommodate diverse needs and preferences, ensuring customer satisfaction across the board.
A brief ad notes cash prices on dry goods boots hats and caps from Lichtenberger and Sons urging customers to visit for bargain clothing and accessories across the dry goods boot and hat lines.
The Register advertises annual and delayed payment rates, with strict rules on discontinuances. It outlines column pricing for quarter, half, and full columns, local notices at per line, and required prepayment for transient and job-work ads.
A speaker asks a friend to love faithfully while living but urges freedom after death. Preserve the sense of a mourner’s plea to cherish true devotion now, not to mourn theatrically later. The poem counsels living love, warns against lingering shadows, and encourages speaking praise while alive.
A poem drains the broad literary ocean to a land where memory renews youth. The speaker recalls a once loved girl now aged and altered, her gray hair and worn form contrasting with remembered radiance. A tender kiss on her withered hand recalls ghostly joy from boyhood.
Beauty alone is a treacherous art that deceives the eye and breaks the heart. Culture, paired with beauty, dowers Woman with fragrance and charm, tying eye and heart in sweet witchery for all time.
Grateful Green Bay citizens present Mr. Jackson a silver headed cane for not kicking his wife from bed during seven years of marriage. No silver headed soap-stick for Mrs. Jackson, perhaps reflecting her quick temper and alleged heel-foot conflicts, per the Louisville Courier Journal.
A Milwaukee Sentinel note quotes Brother Huntly on expressing love openly. He argues a loving man should reveal his affection to the world unless the woman is unaware or infirm. He adds a warning about competition from another suitor and the risk of hidden feelings.
A comic exchange asks how a jackass can reach the bay across a river without getting wet. The reply says the other jackass exclaimed, framing the joke around a one liner.
Jell Evans, a dainty eighteen year old schoolteacher with an overflowing heart, captains a love triangle as Mr. Landreth visits from church and fields. Amid cap jokes, roses, and moonlit talks on the Evans porch, Landreth serenely declares his love for Jell and her signature sweeping cap, revealing a gentle romance in a small town.
Dr Merryweather declares that a fair diet tempers human tempers and reduces crime. He argues carnivorous diets make people fierce while occasional fish meals would improve health, mitigate diseases, and benefit the world.
A group of instructors at Westfield debated what constitutes an impression. A young teacher asked the question and a professor answered that an impression is a dent in a soft spot. The student accepted the remark with good humor.
Alderman and watchmaker Sir John Bennett delivered a lecture in which he compared men and women to machines. He stated you can stop a clock but cannot stop a watch, then described men as a coarse machine but silenced, and women as a jeweled, fragile being who will run until she stops of her own accord.
A barber named Johnson in Aylmer Canada took a fifty cent bet and slid under a speeding railway train. He won the wager but lost the heel of a boot when a wheel nearly struck him as he surfaced. The betting loser expected a couple of dollars from the inquest.
A St Louis wife described as strict in faith struck her husband with a pudding stick for a shortcoming, held his head in a tub of dirty water until near death, then laid him on the lounge and, beside him, read a Bible chapter and asked if he believed in a future time when all men shall be good.
A Detroit man digging in his garden is summoned to dinner by his wife who accuses him of fraud as she spots a neighbor couple at the door. The scene escalates with a playful insult and exposes a light domestic comic moment. The husband finally joins the table after the ruckus.
An admonition warns boys about nightly lounging on street corners, noting that an hour of idle time daily wastes 365 hours yearly and costly cigars undermine study. It urges youth to curb idle habits, save money for periodicals, and pursue usefulness and happiness.
In poetic prose, the author compares a tall ship gliding past to a widowed sea tale where a powerful steam tug hidden beneath the hull drags a grand vessel. The contrast shows how a steadfast partner anchors ambition, warning that without the wife’s brave heart the ship might drift away and vanish.
The Marguerite wrapper features a sacque front cut separate from the waist, shoulder and underarm seams, with a Gabrielle shaped skirt and a long front seam from armhole to hem. A bottom flounce and striped trim add dressy appeal. back follows the Trench Marguerite cut to fit smoothly over the tournate.
A Mark Twain humor piece recalls a Scripture panorama where a proprietor hires a pianist. As the Prodigal Son image appears, the pianist plays When Johnny Comes Marching Home, provoking the moral lecturer in attendance.
A brief humorous exchange from London Fun features Mrs Stubbing denying Satan’s right to judge her faith. The conversation plays on religious certainty and personal conviction with sharp wit. The snippet reflects light social satire rather than a full article.
A Quitman, Alabama, man stood on a scaffold with a noose, singing a hymn and praying for ten minutes before a statement to the crowd. The account notes the ominous scene as the sentence proceeds.
A GarA Trondon seamstress lived for two years on two shilliga a week. She never complained for fear of the workhouse. At last she was found dead in her room, having per ished for want of warmth and sufficient food.
The new chaplain appeared in gown and pants, kneeling on a cushion to offer prayer from the Episcopal prayer book, marking a distinctive departure for the House tradition.
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