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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1885
Page
2
A long piece notes a nightly skating group and a town rink heroine. A narrator admires a young female skater in bright dress, dreams of courting her, and learns she is the champion roller skater wife of a tailor, as the director confirms.
In a Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph snippet, young Johnnie Jarphly questions his mother about appropriate dress for a masquerade ball. The exchange toys with cultural custom and attire, ending with the mother’s insistence to stop the knives and prepare.
A fragment from Michael Da vitts book on British prisons recounts a pickpocket’s arrest tale in slang with terms like lagged beak and six doss. The excerpt ends with a reflection on the poet’s longing for sympathy and shared sentiment among kindred spirits.
Stenne, a sickly Parisian boy around ten, joins a streetwise older peer to chase galacie money during the siege. They pass out papers to Prussians, steal from the enemy, and face punishment as the boy confronts guilt and his soldier father’s stern mercy. The story contrasts war’s pull with a father’s hard, silent sacrifice.
A collage of witticisms and quips from various papers. It notes soldiers in Sudan wind conditions, a tongue in cheek exchange about whisky, a hangman request, and humorous lines about bills, love, and everyday life. Entities include Philadelphia Daily, Brooklyn Hayle, Zevas Sijlings, Chicago Sun, New York Journal, Brooklyn Eagle, Norristown Herald, Lilisburgh Chronicle, Newman Independent, Swantonville Journal, and Boston references. The humor spans doctors, pay histories, and witty poems about fans and love.
A two stick device measures artistic appeal by having a person form a cross. Readings align to a hundred mark, with higher culture tending toward that top score. Invented by a German professor, the test notes educated individuals closely approach the ideal aesthetic standard.
Dr Formad reports four children contracted diphtheria in an isolated Michigan home. Diphtheritic membranes filled the gullet and stomach for post mortem verification. Kitchen refuse fed to pigs caused rapid pig illness and death, with pig tissues testing positive for diphtheritic bacteria. Experiments in rabbits and other animals yielded fatal diphtheria when inoculated with pig material.
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