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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1876
Page
1
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A compact verse speaks to hopeful, patient figures facing sorrow and longing. It addresses eyes arms lips and hearts, urging endurance until a promised recompense. The tone is reverent, urging steadfastness amid life’s frailty and unacknowledged suffering.
Mary Foley of Boston told police she wed a 27 year old named Martin Kelley. She says he drew 600 of her 1500 dollars from a savings bank shortly after the ceremony. She bought beer for both, then chaos followed and now she has no one to love or money to spare.
A clergyman was turned down as a fashionable spelling bee for spelling drunkenness with one n. He returned to his parish and was coldly received. He asked the parish clerk the cause. The clerk explained that a report claimed he was turned out of a great lady’s house for drunkenness.
A distraught young wife visits her mother and receives a cruel letter from her husband in Rochester, urging her to stay away. A compassionate narrator urges her to return at once, offering encouragement to study and improve. The wife reunites with her husband after a bold, heartfelt reunion, revealing the power of reconciliation.
A timid lover, urged by a sleep talking sweetheart, proposes marriage in a parlor night scene. The sleeper, responsive in dream, hints June as the wedding month, causing the suitor to retreat and avoid discussing the plan again.
Evening quiet on a vine covered piazza gives way to whispered exchanges about a "little birdie" and a "little robin" followed by a muffled sound. Outside, a stern middle aged man with no button on his shirt collar halts, clutching a manuscript titled Matrimony a Curse as he peers at a hitching post.
A Cincinnati special to the Chicago Times notes Southern Republicans and river men express strong dissatisfaction with Wheeler’s nomination. They are unwilling to forget his opposition to improving Western rivers and harbors. The move is described as a mistake if intended to conciliate the South.
The article explains how the heart pumps blood and how excessive physical and mental strain can overwhelm it. It cites Renforth the English oarsman who died from extreme exertion, arguing that steady, continuous labor sustains health and longevity, while competitive exercise can be dangerous.
The Cincinnati Inquirer describes Mr Bloss as writing with a hand cramp and brain defect causing illegible chirography. He held the pen at the tip and produced hieroglyphic characters that, with effort, could be deciphered by study. Not due to Scrivener’s palsy, the writing astonished printers nationwide.
A Northampton man presented petitions to Congress requesting on July 4 1876 the flag star be permanently a six rayed centennial star and urging an international monument for English speaking nations. He also seeks a joint resolution to fund laying the cornerstone for a full sized Oliver Cromwell pedestal statue.
In Montgomery Queen's circus in San Francisco an elephant discovered a pocket in a girl's dress as she left the ring. The animal reached with its trunk and retrieved an apple, then gum-drops, peanuts, and a bottle of ammonia. The contents spoiled the dress and the crowd helped cover the girl with a shawl before she was taken home.
A tale of a poor curate and a servant disputing a chandler Paul over bacon and eggs on credit leads to a church scene about Pauls reply. A note on the strongest ship planned in Lorients Redoubtible with armor and guns. A digression on nitric acid spelling issues and benzoylnaphtylamide isomers.
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