02 Jul 1880
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1880
Page
1
In a melodramatic tale of love and social strife Renee Courtland, once torn between Lester Sinclair and Victor Gray, faces jealousy and heartbreak. Victor’s steadfast devotion wins her, revealing a quiet, enduring love and a life rebuilt through loyalty and courage.
A speaker renounces gifts and letters from a past lover, vows to burn keepsakes and return items. The ring remains unused while memories fade, a pale rose withered since a summer meeting notes the loss of love and the emptiness that follows.
A brief poem captures a couple in quarrel and a chilling line. The speaker recalls a hurried note foretelling "To-morrow you'll be sad" and the lingering pain of that prophecy. The two word cause, a foolish speech, underscores this haunting farewell.
A mix of moral guidance for boys urging integrity, manners, perseverance, restraint, and effort. The text notes British tunnel promoters drilling toward the Channel and project milestones, then fragments about a Kentucky elopement, a London moored grain elevator, North Carolinian traits, and a tramp’s remark, with garbled remnants.
An advertisement extols Hall's Hair Renewer as a powerful vegetable remedy that claims to restore gray hair to its natural color, cleanse the scalp, cure dandruff, and promote nourishment. It is praised as economical and long lasting, with endorsements from medical men and the Massachusetts State Assayer, and notes its global popularity. A companion passage shows a domestic scene where Mrs Brown contemplates cleaning and a call that will never be returned.
A man named Noah Towner killed himself in Central West Virginia after confessing in a letter that he deceived his sweetheart. He spoke of an everlasting red ward and torment. A Broadway store clerk recently took half a day off for a funeral and returned with red hands and a freckled face. His employer asked where the fish were.
Statistics show that the English coast records more shipwrecks and collisions due to the busy shipping and commerce nearby, yet incidents are ten times less frequent than twenty years ago, reflecting improved safety despite heavy maritime activity.
A lady confides that in selecting a lover she gauges how the man will be viewed by other women more than whether she truly loves him. This remark reveals social considerations guiding romantic choices among women.
In England, protest rises over honorary Colonelcies costing about 1 million dollars annually. The positions fill 180 Generals who perform no visible duties for the pay.
A compact reflection on human superiority over animals and the expressions of gratitude. It notes you can force a horse to drink but not a man to pay, and that kindness moves the heart when chords of gratitude are stirred.
In a letter to the Herald, Schuyler Colfax defends Garfield as truthful despite the Credit Mobilier scandal. The New York Sun notes both men took bribes from Oakes Ames and swore they took nothing, Garfield pressing Ames to commit perjury to shield him.
Sax Bismarck speaks with candor about Mr Gladstone and exposes mutual antipathy between the iron chancellor and the pen and axe rival. Both leaders openly condemn the others politics, shaping a tense, critical international stance.
Committees search for Jawyora and clergy as the time for a genuine agricultural fakre approaches, signaling a local prompted event.
A Richmond Virginia Baton report recounts a Civil War era scene in the Readjuster era legislature. A Methodist preacher and shorthand writer sought to advance his bill to appoint a court stenographer. He relied on a senator to elevate it in the order, but the chamber's bill numbering produced an odd misfire with his Bill No 63 while his Bill No 65 turned out to be whisky bill. The preacher, watching the desk, felt compelled to slip away in embarrassment.
A humorous brief contrasts a charming mother-in-law with a blunt husband. A man planning to sell his Greenwood cemetery lot quips about burying his wife there, adding a quip about leaving $800,000 of New York Central stock to himself in his will. The piece closes with a tongue in cheek reflection on future rent in the afterlife.
A man sawing wood in a back yard declares, My country needs me, we must slaughter all these Injans. His wife retorts that fighting Indians will require many attempts and impractical tasks, then he resumes work at the wood pile.
The piece argues that timely payment by readers sustains the press and public prosperity. It claims prompt patrons keep printers well funded, enabling better writing and more pleasant reporting, and urges placing the advice where all can see it.
In Pima County Arizona a mining camp grew under the quirky name Tombstone after Scheifflin brothers prospected there. They were told to engrave a tombstone because of Indian depredations, found rich deposits, and named the camp Tombstone in honor of the suggestion. Now a paper titled epitaph has been started.
The piece contrasts actors who travel to Europe with friends paying their way and returning to a welcome, with editors who must beg subscribers to settle their accounts before leaving and face hungry creditors on their return amid accumulating bills.
The undertakers of this state plan a convention at Utica. Those thinking it a grim funeral affair are mistaken. They are grave people off duty, but not morose. the gathering promises lively, sociable proceedings among funeral professionals.
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