29 Jul 1881
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1881
Page
1
Ridgway and Phebe, young farmers, face household strain on budget and duties. Uncle Aleck arrives, exposes imbalance, and forces a shift toward shared labor and respect. Phebe regains standing, and the couple begins a rebuilding of trust, with a wiser view of economy and care.
The Christian Union cites Charles Dudley Warner arguing Americans overestimate reading. Most daily reads are newspapers and telegraph summaries, with few turning to books unless a work becomes fashionably talked about. Bowles’s experience shows broad demand yet slim actual sales, while businesspeople and youth read less, preferring borrowed or library books. Maine Governor Coburn donates 10,000 to the State college.
Griph raids a boarding house pie closet. The landlady and daughter scheme vengeance by contaminating pie cookies and doughnuts with mule meat kerosene and poison cheese. Griph grows pale, sick, and retreats to bed as the pair laugh.
The English Government has employed women as telegraphists since January 1870. Nominations go to the Postmaster General with ages from 14 to 18 admitted. Start pay is eight shillings weekly, rising to a top of thirty shillings, eight hours daily from 8 am to 6 pm. Women now work in the same galleries as men and boys, with high accuracy and quickness required. night work is avoided. Currently 67 women telegraphists are employed in London, Edinburgh and Dublin.
The largest toy factory in the world sits five stories high in New York producing 1 607 tin toy varieties including tin horses and a vast menagerie. It employs about 200 people and ships 12 million circular tin whistles yearly. Toys are exported worldwide with tastes varying by country, from water carts in Brazil to tin horns in the United States.
A reformer asks the ex-smoker why he quit and the man replies his cigarette went out, prompting the humorous exchange about giving up smoking.
In a history class exchange the professor asks for the greatest charge on record and an absent minded student replies with the itemized cost of seventeen dollars for carriage hire for himself and a girl for two hours. The quirky episode highlights misgivings about pricing and memory in a historical context.
A fragmentary quote contrasts social goods and usefulness with personal enjoyment. It questions why some denounce marriage as a delusion yet again pursue it when opportunity arises, reflecting on human inconsistency and desire. The line implies a skeptical view of worldly pursuits and romantic conventions.
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