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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1883
Page
4
The Warnong Machine Company has coal delivery and a July fair planned with races, music, and fireworks. Local notices mention thieves, hedge fences, a baseball conductor, a dramatic troupe manager traveling to find talent, and various residents returning from trips. A saw mill boiler explosion killed Urban Ruminer and injured two others, while local farms and railroads are noted for mileage valuations and crop impacts.
The Carmi Courier reports on the telephone’s novelty causing humorous mix ups as a man tries a call and a New Florisguy incident where a jail gate was left open. The resulting cattle alert and destroyed shrubbery prompt the author to suggest handling prisoners differently in the future.
The Vernonian town council selected a singer named Smith to serve as special police on Sunday, paying each officer 22 for services. The move coincided with the cornerstone laying of a church, prompting questions about necessity as the marshal and police were seen in the town in informal roles.
Casey C Montgomery nine year old son of James Montgomery near Poseyville shot himself while in an orchard discharging a revolver by turning it to revolve he is reportedly improving. Also notes Mt Vernon to Uniontown electric line progress and other local items including a farewell sermon, base ball club plan, telegraph line mileage, visits by Evansville residents and crowd notes from Poseyville and nearby towns.
A collage of town notes reports visiting residents, band prominence, an Evansville ad insert, a Miss Rotit Wilson guest, a stolen drafts packet valued at 3000 dollars with a 5 dollar piece, and a cyclone blown purse. It notes the League of the Cross march, Foraker’s gubernatorial nomination, pigs killed by stones, Japan lilies count, a San Francisco heat spike, and a Chicago circus fire partial loss.
A partial price list of staples and goods includes New Sta Flour wheat bushel corn bushel corn meal three bushels chickens dozens eggs dozens butter pounds lard pounds hams shoulders sides pounds new lapras like corrected weekly by John Withelian Co. june 2 ise 23 various prices for logs, sugar, feathers, tallow, hides, deer, gard of, linseed oil coal oil turpentine vinegar whisky potatoes apples dried peaches dried saltry beans dried tea half pound.
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