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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1875
Page
3
Local notices list clocks for sale by W F Gray next to the Postoffice and wool orders for 50,000 pounds at Fretagoots. Thrall and Mumford advertise goods arrivals, dyes, soaps, seeds, sorghum, lime, molasses, onions, and paints. General references include Elgin watches, Poet jokes, and Sherman earnings. many items lack full context.
A lively report of a pleasure trip aboard the Arkansas Belle from New Harmony to Cairo and back. Describes dances, bands, crowds, stops at Cave-in-Rock Paducah and Brooklyn, a humorous mishap, and reflections on early river history. Includes related notes on local personalities and a marriage ceremony outline by Robert Dale Owen.
J K Foster manager of the Texas Real Estate and Gold Distribution assures a June 30 1875 drawing will occur. The post office shows strong support with many orders and letters. If the drawing fails every ticket holder is promised a refund and a Texas farm, with a plan to keep funds in a home bank until drawing.
Col Robert M and Stephen A Douglas, sons of the late Stephen A Douglas, receive an award for 1,457 bales of cotton valued at about $259,400 seized in Mississippi on the maternal plantation.
The Wheeling Press notes that purgative pills have become a settled necessity for Americans. It praises Ayer's Cathartic Pills as the most skillful, permanent remedy for the diseases they target, suggesting widespread public confidence and habitual use.
A fragmentary Posey County page reports a man named Humsinger killed by a falling tree near Grayville, a semi annual Posey County Agricultural Society meeting, Gov Hayres nomination news, a Mt Vernon county commissioners session, a Union Hall ball, and Beecher Tilton case verdict expectations. Also notes of Posey residents spread stories from Col Car Jones and mentions of the Hoosier river conditions and Judge Porter defamation award.
A Montreal lawyer cited a ruling in the Beecher case provoking Judge Mondler to condemn the quoting as a disgrace to New York. The brief remark underscores how a city is judged by its associations and conduct. New Harmony Retail Market corrected weekly by Thrall Mumford, New Hannony, June 5, 1875.
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