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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1889
Page
3
A hotel lobby tale recounts coincidences linking a scarab watch charm to its owner, then shifts to a captain swapping boots after a night out, with a running note on honesty and the rogue stereotype. The piece ends reflecting on Cicero and virtue from Youth's Comparison.
A country paper discusses honesty through a horse described as honest for providing food shelter and care and performing fair daily work. It traces latin roots from honestas to virtus, equating honesty with manhood and integrity. It notes defaulters as weak and misled, linking honesty to reputation and strength.
In a lively domestic scene Mrs Bright Ah and Mrs Cheery host Little Johnny with his mother managing a lively visit. Johnny toys and bangs at furniture while promises of good behavior unravel, ending with a threat of sending him home after the episode. The exchange touches on winter ending, Rosina Vokes, and a Dresden cup as the family navigates a lively afternoon.
A tale of a balky horse on the Colorado plains outside Denver ends with a bold rider tossing sand into the animal’s mouth. The horse bolts, leaving the driver stranded five miles from home as the narrator recalls the curious remedy working to start the horse.
During the Civil War the Sanitary Commission supplied vegetables to troops, distributing five potatoes or three potatoes and an onion per man. A German lieutenant in Nashville lamented not knowing sauerkraut, saying Germans swallow it. The piece highlights how small staples could mean life or death and ends with a road story about refreshments and a patent medicine firm.
After the Seven Years War Frederick the Great scorns petitions for pensions yet grants one when Captain Ritter, maimed with an arm lost at Buckersdorf, presents a kneeled petition in two words. The king, amused, signs the paper himself, granting the pension.
In Mount Pisgah A M E Church Deacon Franklin Dade carried a bag with a cock five hens and several chicks to a late meeting. A patrolman detained him near R Street then learned he bought the birds from a white lady and released the deacon.
A Philadelphia crowd witnessed a loud quarrel on Chestnut Street near Tenth on Saturday. A young woman, incensed by an insult, cried and walked away as a man explained he meant a friend from Association Hall. The mistaken address led to embarrassment and a crude question about undergarments.
The text discusses death by one’s own actions as common in large cities, with Stoic praise and Roman law tolerating it. It notes higher prevalence among educated and wealthy classes, cites physicians, religious extremists, and differing gender patterns, including English women preferring hanging or abstinence among methods.
A narrative contrasts a sympathetic bystander with a wounded boy at work in a noisy machine shop. The girl expresses horror at the danger, while the boy explains he was hurt playing baseball. The scene shifts to a San Francisco Chronicle note on digestion and a string of aphorisms and adages about discipline, honesty, duty, and work.
A Chicago Leader quips at a corner store sale where thirteen postage stamps cost one cent and a quarter, comparing to postal rates of twenty six cents. The exchange highlights frugal pricing and public astonishment at the bargain.
The Rock Island and Pacific Railway offers Harvest Excursion Tickets to Kansas and Nebraska west of the Missouri River, plus other listed states and territories, at a single round trip fare. Sales August 6 and 20, September 10 and 24, and October 8, 1880, with a 30 day return limit, featuring solid vestibule express trains to Omaha and via Kansas City to Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo. Contact Joun Sebastian, General Ticket Agent, Chicago, for details.
A satirical snippet traces how a bushel of corn yields four gallons of whisky priced at sixteen dollars with the government taking a slice. It contrasts farmer, railroad, manufacturer, vendors, and drinker shares, then shifts to anecdotes about Dobbins Electric Soap, John L. Sullivan, and a Harpers Bazaar scene with a bawl-room remark and a pond lily note.
The London Truth reports Eugenie and Victoria meeting Bonapartists in Brussels on the Empress’s route to Metzger’s in Amsterdam. Her appearance is aged and somber, aided by a stick, while couture still marks her belongings. She and the Queen speak of guardianship of tombs and Britain’s crown as a widow’s bonnet.
A man boasts of gifting a velvet sack to his wife yet laments that material gifts cannot ease her suffering. The narrator promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as the universal cure for female troubles and related ailments, with a note on the bottle wrapper guarantee and 25 cent price for Poetlets pills.
A quoted exchange describes a judge as non-committal and praised as first rate. The speaker seeks a different outcome, noting two prior six month jail terms after court decisions. The dialogue captures a wary attitude toward judicial impartiality.
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