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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1873
Page
1
The Register lists advertising rates for quarter and whole column spaces with durations from one month to twelve months. It notes that all transient ads require advance payment and ad work must be paid on delivery.
A wealthy New York magnate bequeaths his fortune to Myra Kilborne on condition she marry Robert Kilborne within a year. She opposes the demand and secretly plots with a lawyer to secure the estate, while a hasty single ceremony makes Myra legally tied to Robert, triggering a divorce pursuit and legal wrangling that ends with the fortune transferred and a contested settlement.
A historical anecdote describes Sir Robert Walpole attempting to secure a House vote through bribery. On a Court of Requests passage he offered a bank bill of 2000 pounds to a courtiers member, who refused only after recalling past royal favors to his wife and demanding ongoing influence.
A village parson, seeking to calm critics, delivers a verbose apology that mocks hyperbole and pedantry. He vows to align his daily wanderings and nightly fabrications with the listeners’ understanding, ending by addressing his audience as highly respectable yet amused.
A tale recounts the famed composer Lully pressured by a confessor to destroy unpublished operatic works for absolution. Remonstrance fails. On recovery a patron is told the anecdote and the quote about burning one’s phemy and being a blockhead. The piece ends with a stray note about a woman near hanging, interrupted by bystanders.
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