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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1892
Page
2
The piece argues that reading the Congressional Record in schools trains youth to criticize teachers. It also notes Milwaukee’s breweries expanding and the creation of a Keeley Club as a response.
In a pointed critique, a speaker warns that dynamite used by spiteful individuals destabilizes civilization and declares the preferred outcome is Neebe serving time in the Penitentiary. The editor emphasizes strong punishment as a public stance.
The New York World opposes sending the Van Rensselaer manor to Chicago and jokes about a Chicago exchange for the Post Office Building. It argues against speculation and lottery profits fueling social harm and urges restraint. It warns revolver use harms society and notes many inmates behind bars due to gun violence.
The text urges that the healthy stay cheerful and selfless, while the sick should be helped to focus outward. It asserts salvation and death depend on faith, claiming strong will can overcome illness and lack of desire for life hastens death.
A man frustrated by social failure learns card tricks to impress others as the crowd, including a czar, envies his skill. The piece contrasts personal vanity with grand ambitions, joking that dismantling a vast army to fund a 5000 mile railroad would crown the czar as a greater monarch than Peter the Great, prompting Europe to stay silent.
The passage argues that every person has latent capacity to find happiness across life’s phases. Faith in that power safeguards welfare, while its loss leaves one adrift. Those who feel and use it can guide life, conquer adversity, and reach stability, rather than merely seeking pleasure.
A fragmentary observer recounts the Fitzsimmons brothers from Buffalo linked to Chicago asphyxiation victims amid police pursuit for robbery. It also notes a Chillicothe relic site at the World’s Fair showing copper tools and weapons, hinting at Ohio Valley peoples and skilled workmanship.
The Massachusetts Board of Managers selects the John Hancock mansion as its State house for the Columbian Exposition. It will be built of granite with a colonial garden and walls adorned with portraits of worthies from Winthrop to Garrison, highlighting Massachusetts history and education.
A romantic poem laments summer’s passing and praises a girl in sealskin, contrasting beauty with wartime sorrow. The speaker adores her pale, frosty allure and imagines sacrificing life to behold her radiant brow. The verse blends seasonal imagery with longing and tragedy.
Phineas Eliswerth known as Billy Brag proves his boast by taking the stage guard job, foiling three attackers near Five Mile Creek. He sustains multiple injuries, including a leg wound and a throat wound, but survives and continues to brag of the deed.
A prominent financier who heads a leading dry goods firm argued that general business ethics fail to suit all, urging that improving young merchants requires focusing on character. He warned against gambling and idle pleasures that waste opportunities and hurt future prosperity, stressing that future business leaders need moral cultivation.
Macmillan's Magazine notes Florida cattle raising for Cuban and West Indian markets from Punta Gorda and Punta Rasse exports about 10,000 head annually to Cuba. Beef is poor quality as cattle are not fattened and are rounded up only before export. Pasture and breed are weak, suggesting ranching will fade while dairy farming rises.
A garbled weather fragment presents a fragmentary quote about age and time, with illegible phrasing and no clear meteorological content or identifiable entities.
A Newfoundland dog, about a year old, owned near Boston at Arlington Heights, is trained to attempt human speech. Under his master’s guidance the dog labors lips and mouth to produce sounds approximating mamma, with repeated incentives of cake and praise, reflecting a curious early experiment in canine articulation.
The two back waist buttons on men's coats started as functional clasps to keep the skirt from draping during duels and formal displays. Originally used to pull the sides back for ready access to the sword, they allowed defense while showing the coat’s rich interior. Today they linger as a vestige of that era.
A Philadelphia Ledger note cites Ebenezer Long as a remarkable man from Marianna Florida with a lightening skin transformation from dark to fair over years. Georgia claims him as birthplace. The piece lists nationalities of ships using the Suez Canal totaling nearly 3500 with English leading and multiple nations represented.
A detailed account describes cork production in Spain and Portugal, with Seville and Lisbon agents buying corks for export. It covers sizes and qualities, hand cutting in the US, machinery use, corks for medicines and eyeglass dips, and the economics of cork growing, harvest cycles, and shipment alongside other cargoes.
A tale from Youth's Companion recounts how a childhood leg injury derailed two feet and redirected Talley rand toward greatness. It parallels other American families where disabling accidents sparked later achievement across three generations.
An 19th century tone notes that modest hesitation in love fails, praising bold wooing. It contrasts timid, shy women preferring decisive, assertive suitors who press a wining effort to a rapid climax, warning that patient strategists may be outflanked by ardent rivals.
Africa is gradually slipping from native rulers as colonial powers divide about 11 million square miles. Only 3.5 million are African governed while France holds 2,309,217, England 1,900,445, Germany 1,035,720, Congo Free State 1,000,000, Portugal 774,999, Italy 360,000, and Spain 210,000. France leads in area but England has the most valuable share.
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