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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1885
Page
2
The piece surveys varied topics from Edwin Booth's farewell season to opium desensitization methods, wedding dowries in India, and satirical social observations. It recounts Oscar and political musings, Ottoman printing ventures, and a Boston tailor strike, all in a brisk, era-typical voice.
A Dorcas Magazine pattern describes making a chair pillow with stout cloth or drill, curled hair fill, decorative strips, and optional cretonne flowers. It covers curved hang, ribbon ties, edge finishes, and suspension from chair back with twisted cord and tassels. The piece ends with a devotional aside praising pure affection.
In a rural tale a devout man named Billy B. pretends to be pious while charging pew rents. He boasts of salvation as free yet secures ten pews for himself, then recounts a river raft of boards and a cheese aided by a lumber raft that fed his workers. A sharp member questions who lost the raft.
A sensational tale follows Professor George Scholbach a famed illusionist who mesmerizes Irene Washburne in Montrose with mind reading and love. After a staged knife illusion ends in murder the conjurer and Irene vanish leaving Dr John Manners dead and police baffled setting off a nationwide manhunt.
A brief note from Demorest Magazine argues wrinkles like crow feet come from facial habits and pillow pressure. It suggests smiling with the mouth to avoid crow feet and forehead lines, claiming look in a mirror proves the effect and that wrinkles can be sent away anytime.
The New York Graphic notes a modern realistic drama with a strong cast as a scene of dramatic struggle on stage. History is a romance believed and a romance is a history not believed, reflecting a provocative, theatrical contrast.
A collage of quips and witticisms from various papers. It mixes jokes about royalty, newspapers, suffrage, bungled protests, and a playful tax on current events. It notes literary snippets and a note on oversized modern drums in orchestras.
Capt W W Lawson recalls a tale from his father a famed field sportsman who once lost a dog in tall sedge during a hunt The dog’s skeleton was later found near a covey of birds with the dog still on the point The Pittsburgh Dispatch quote reflects on the ripple effects of a single act of offense and its unforeseen consequences
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