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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1875
Page
3
Wool demand drawn from Thrall and Mumford's while varied goods fill shelves including bacon hams lard dyes lye and molasses. A Royal Indian tour costs 710000 dollars approved by Parliament amid criticism of luxuries.
Louisa Frierancer writes of July Fourth celebrations in Gardner and Jonesville with a fire department display and Trout Ponds visit. She tours the Heywood Bros. chair factory, notes mass production, and attends churches and Crystal Lake sights. The letter also covers a theater festival for the Working Men's Institute and a charity fair with prizes.
The Victs House is sold to Mr. A. G. Dammon proprietor of the Sherwood House Evansville and Rupp Vixrs will retire around September 1. Many visitors to New Harmony will miss Rupp from the post he has long filled. The Viets House will be supervised by Mr. Rug Smawven clerk at the Sherwood House and a hotel veteran.
Harmon T. Wilson former city editor left Evansville last Monday to check on his city home and business. He plans to return soon if his work allows. Also noted, E. F. Owen sustained a serious but not dangerous injury while assembling farming machinery this week, keeping him at home.
A statement table lists life expectancies by occupation and gender, showing printers having the shortest life and well paid steady workers living longer. It argues that easier circumstances, self‑control, education, and open air living promote health and longevity, urging rational living to extend life.
The Oxniver Optic highlights four chapters of Going Weat and other installments including Nature's Scholar and Reminiscences of West African Life. It features poems, illustrated stories, and a list of contents with notices like a commissioner's sale of an ice house.
At the July meeting the Working Men's Institute adopts a construction plan similar to the School House with added doors and arched entries to the Library. Probable cost listed at 4300 dollars, with Harmony Society funding discussed and proposals to contractors to follow. The group approves the plan and adjourns.
Patents issued by the U S Patent Office for the week ending July 17 1875 to Indiana inventors: Foot Rest Q Edgecomb Lima Wicker Basket N Wolf Otto Check Row Attachment for Corn Planters M Newton Kentland Cultivator T and W Vandegrift Wabash.
Transfers recorded for the week ending July 19 1875 include M Reed to M Dain part N E 29 66 13 in Farmersville. M R Moore to A Moore portions of part N E N G and part S BE 16 6 18 20 acres $500. M Dietrich to C Springer Lot 55 Mt Vernon. Seward and Husband to R W and E Highman portions of N BH 9 W 4 3 of N W 48 E 43 of F of S BK 18 W. R B Shepard to H O Bannon in Lot 73 Williams Mt Vernon.
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