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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1889
Page
1
Indiana weekly record summarizes political discontent with Harrison administration and GOP friction. Brazil relief donors, miners’ poverty, and Voorhees contribution praised. Scattered items cover strange animal births, church incidents, divorces, deaths, lawsuits, roadblocks to industry, and broad state news from numerous counties with notes on crops, schools, and infrastructure.
State board of education in Indianapolis opened bids for Indiana school books under the new law but awarded no contracts as none met security requirements. Bids reopen July 1 with forecasts the law will curb the school-book ring. publishers may supply manuscripts and print under contract if needed. Rumor says prices may rise if the ring keeps its grip another year.
A Brooklyn ferry engineer Owen Woolfolk and passenger Squire Sidener fought off a mad buzzard that attacked their mule drawn buggy. They killed the bird after a violent assault. The clipped items also note local ordinances and election results across several towns including Greenville Shawneetown and Carmi with mentions of licenses taxes and a 100th birthday.
The report notes a Pittsburg boy Burt struck by lightning his neck twisted and muscles stiffened with no relief. Johnston Pennsylvania suffers a catastrophe from a river reservoir burst destroying the town with about eight thousand lives lost.
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