Percy Bennet breaks arm in baseball game
Fifteen year old Percy Bennet fractured his arm in two places after a Sunday fall during a baseball game.
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1871
Page
3
Fifteen year old Percy Bennet fractured his arm in two places after a Sunday fall during a baseball game.
From W H Loomis secretary the Premium List for the Second Annual Fair of the Indianapolis Agricultural Mechanical and Horticultural Association to be held September 25 to 30. The 1871 fair will be on improved grounds with over sixteen thousand dollars in premiums and promises the largest assembly yet in the state. Also reports on political meetings rioting in New York Catholic Church blame, local elections and congressional candidates with endorsements and critique of current lawmakers.
The notice promotes Adams & Co. sports and games July 1871 magazine priced at 25 cents a year with varied content from fishing to croquet. Demorest's Young America and Demorest's Morning Magazine are advertised with August issues priced at 100 dollars yearly or 160 with premium and 300 dollars for Morning Magazine, all from 838 Broadway New York.
Official week’s list of patents issued by the United States Patent Office to Indiana inventors for the week ending July 11 1871. Names include H S Daggett La Fayette for Electro Magnetic Car Brake, D J Moffitt Thorntown for Water Gate, J 5 Tibbetts Brazil for Safety Shaft for Vehicles, F M English Evansville torn, J F McKim Remington for Egg preservative composition, J L Stropes Bloomington for End Gate for Wagons.
Excerpted from the Herald of Health the piece argues intoxicants harm generations. It cites Morel on four generations showing drunkenness spreading mania paranoia and mental decline ending in extinction, to demonize alcohol. The Evansville Courier notes Republican discontent and calls for individual rights over party schemes.
The Philadelphia Age argues a Radical claim misleads on tax burden by citing New York at 2.27 dollars and Philadelphia at 1.80. It notes if Philadelphia’s tax were full valuation and New York’s at one third valuation, Philadelphia would extract more from taxpayers.
A letter from Warton Morris of MILEsBourg Centre Co PENN dated March 15 1870 praises Cloud Aitkin Co Invigorating Cordial. He notes high express charges but relief for two daughters suffering debility and suspected scrofula after using the remedy and mentions his Tenn brother-in-law W H Watson who ordered a supply. Sold by Thrall Mumford New Harmony.
An old lady asks her son to lift the door to stop wind. He says that will worsen matters, noting the wind bloweth where it listeth and cannot be controlled by such effort.
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