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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1870
Page
3
Notice invites Posey County Democrats to meet in delegate convention at New Harmony on August 27 1870 to nominate county officers and conduct other business. Voters in townships to meet August 20 at voting precincts to choose delegates, with one delegate per twenty votes cast for Hendricks in 1868.
The Pax The Mr. Vernon Democrat notes that Mr. O Kane and his company gained friends in New Harmony with acceptable acting, while warning Mt Vernon against neglecting genuine histrionic talent and risking a poor reputation similar to a nearby city.
The Cincinnati dramatic troupe filled the theatre with one of its largest audiences last Saturday for a benefit performance for Mr. O'Krane. The company will return in a few weeks to present plays such as Under the Gaslight Colleen Bawn Octoroon Red Light and more. Miss Katie Trustox's fancy dance and Miss Nevil Sarrit's Highland Fling drew thunderous applause.
At the Democratic Congressional Convention in Princeton Hon William E Nimlack was acclaimed as the First District candidate for the Forty second Congress The note calls for a 5000 vote majority and promises more detail next week A wide European War context is discussed with France Prussia and other powers and crop prospects are reviewed along with social notes including encouragement against profanity and a local education notice by Mr Joan Gray
The Educational Gazette for July 16 debuts as a weekly paper for teachers scholars and homes. It features a Dickens portrait and extracts, a $2 yearly subscription offer with a bundled book or periodical, and publisher details. A political note cites Senator Thurman rebuking Radical colleagues over attendance and quorum levels in Congress.
The Memphis Journal reports Jim Brown fired a Springfield musket at a man and brother, boasting fearlessness and superiority. Buckshot filled the distance, leaving the scene with an exhausted appetite. The funeral that followed was not expensive.
The Sas Tiranaville Journal interviews the so called Cardiff Giant and reports a convincing ocular demonstration that the colossal figure is fearfully and wonderfully made. The piece notes it is the ninth authentic Cardiff original as observed by the local editor.
Aovich urges readers to subscribe to the Register and pay in advance, praising it as beneficial for self and family and suggesting it feels better than borrowing a neighbor's paper.
A letter from Darlington in Vinton County dated May 2 1801 describes a prolonged liver and heart condition improved by Scandinavian Blood Pills and Purifier after being urged by a local agent Mr Dodge. The writer MartinaDale recommends the remedy to others and references an advertisement in another column.
New Harmony Retail Market corrected weekly July 23 1870 lists prices for flour wheat corn meal and other staples. Items include eggs butter lard hams shoulders sides coffee sugar molasses feathers roosters tallow hides linseed oil coal oil turpentine vinegar whiskey potatoes apples peaches salt dried beans and peas with varying per unit and per bushel prices.
An advertisement touts a Blood Purifier made from costly drugs imported from Sweden. It claims the pills use Podophyllum active principle as a Mercury substitute, marketed as a modern cure.
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