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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1893
Page
2
In Harmony Indiana this edition notes the world owes a living to those who work and observes a poor year for strikes. The cremationist is described as never a loafer, believing every man earns his dust, while an extravagant man admonishes his wife on economy.
A man eschews his usual vocation when summoned to his marriage ceremony showing how personal commitment can override lifelong dedication. The tale foregrounds devotion and the pull of a life event over professional duties.
Mr. D. W. HuaHes of Mexico Missouri holds one of the rare Confederate Government patents. It covered a cannon breech plug. Carter Harrison, upon learning from the New York Sun that he set fire to an alderman's whiskers, would grasp the gravity of his crime.
Charles Dudley Warner argues the distinction between faith cure and mind cure lies in belief. Mind cure requires no faith, while faith cure requires no mind.
A tip describes rising on tiptoe before starting a descent to keep the stomach from collapsing. It promises it will become a dependable habit after first trying it.
A diver's helmet has a copper sheet replacing one glass with a telephone fixed to it. The diver can tilt his head slightly to communicate observations and receive instructions from above while at the sea bottom.
The text cites Herodotus to claim that Egyptians had thick skulls due to sun exposure on shaved heads, while Persians had thinner skulls because they kept their heads covered with turbans from infancy.
Two Denver women faced a street ambush by two footpads with pistols. In a display noted by the local chronicler, the women screamed and ran, leaving the criminals to pursue an unfulfilled crime. The piece ponders what the women would have done without such presence of mind.
The piece notes Sayine by Prince Metternich circulates in newspapers claiming he knew only ten or twelve people pleasant to converse with. It cites Lord Macaulay on deaths spoiling his dinner and Chauncey Depew remarking that few friendships form after age ten.
In Creede Colorado a private citizen acted to curb a public disturbance by firing at a prize dancer during a theater incident. The town, fearing deteriorating behavior, regards the act as preventing a slide toward disorder and feels grateful for the intervention.
A writer in the Atlantic Monthly resists inflating emotional pathology and coins life ache for a sorrowful, penury filled feeling. He notes human nature can be impressionable, fine- fibered, and sensitive rather than tough.
The text argues that animals may match human reasoning in function but differ in application to their needs. It notes birds often return to the same sites despite long migrations and that distinguishing what a bird has seen requires judgment, a residue of reason.
Early reports from Ohio indicate substantial flood damages but no firm national tally. Officials say financial impact remains uncertain as assessments continue, with rural and urban areas both affected. Continuous rain hampered work, delaying measurements and aid coordination for residents and farms.
The writer notes vast timber losses in Western Pennsylvania and Meadville with damages totaling hundreds of thousands. They argue nationwide forestry legislation must tighten protections to prevent future floods, warning that continuing timber erasure will yield more widespread and destructive floods than any in history.
The Bureau of Statistics April report shows total breadstuffs exports at 12 623 155 dollars, down from 19 908 717 the prior year. For four months exports total 53 028 385 versus 97 076 436. ten months 157 693 913 versus 253 065 699. Wheat led, followed by wheat flour, with Indian corn rising, signaling growing foreign demand. Europe recognizing corn as breadstuff would boost our crop.
The New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads display rapid progress in travel comfort and speed. A heavy Central train ran at two miles per minute for a stretch, a Philadelphia to New York run covered 92 miles in 100 minutes, and a Central engine No 999 reportedly achieved about 112 mph for a mile. These improvements fuel belief that long distance travel will soon be nearly instantaneous.
A reader identified by initials aU.K. shares a cheerful yet pointed reflection on gender roles. She describes leaving home with her father for work downtown and returning to domestic tasks, noting how family attention shifts and her own “mannish” traits fade as she resumes housework. She asserts women can pursue many professions abroad but remain limited at home.
A large toad found sealed inside a pine log at Brown and Hall saw mill in Acton Ontario after the outer slab was removed. The creature appeared to be centuries old, perfectly enclosed in wood with no way in or out. Naturalists deem it an unknown reptilian species, the cavity smooth as if carved, the toad likely grown with the tree for ages.
Clinton Bcollard crafts a lyric tribute to a pearl as a jewel from distant seas. The speaker imagines the gem, flawless and white, found by a daring diver amid emerald depths, then bound to the lady’s ear with a tale of eastern shores and distant ships. The verse asks where such a treasure would rest in unnamed lands near a beloved cheek.
In a southern county a revival led by a circuit rider draws crowds and satire as an ambitious exhorter bullies mourners. Nick Pea resists joining Heaven, plots revenge, and enlists old Bill Hines's monkey for a dramatic but darkly comic confrontation at the protracted meeting.
After a fierce squall, an old man and a monkey named Steve fled into the woods. The man, shocked by the event, hurried home where his wife later asked how he ended up dragged through a plum thicket. Word spread that Nick split a thousand rails and has become the Mayflower’s exhorter.
An American newspaper correspondent used a beachside prank to obtain a photograph of Captain Wiltse of the United States steamer Boston. Wiltse initially refused but was coaxed by a swift photo capture and a promise of a favorable newspaper placement. The result is Wiltse’s readiness to supply photos for papers after the incident.
The Philadelphia Telegraph notes European ignorance about U.S. affairs. A French almanac cites April 1 as the start of a war between North and South American states. A London publisher claims a Farragut biography is a Confederate hero profile. The Gigant misstates General McClellan as Confederate commander.
The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette recounts sub rosa as a phrase from 477 B C when Pausanias the Spartan courted Nerxes wife terms, negotiating under roses near Minerva’s temple, later trapped inside a sealed Minerva temple where he starved to death with his mother laying the first stone.
Washington Starman recalls a wild Pennsylvanian rail tale tied to the old Sunbury line. A pursuing locomotive gained on an empty engine named Davy Crockett until oil poured on the rails slowed it, saving a large Niagara Falls excursion and earning the nickname that lingered for years.
A Greensboro Record item notes Edward Daves and partners form a circular to NC residents to reclaim Sir Walter Raleighs Roanoke Colony site on Roanoke Island. They secured an option on about 260 acres and seek 1500 in 25 shares to buy the grounds, citing the historic first English colony and the birth of Virginia Dare near Manteo.
Baltimore residents form an association to buy 250 acres on Roanoke Island North Carolina where Sir Walter Raleigh established the first English colony in 1584. The site, with the Raleigh fort ruins, can be bought for 1500 dollars. The plan is to form a company issuing 200 shares at 25 dollars each to fund ongoing preservation with a small annual income.
The earliest known fishing writings include Oppian the Halieuties by a Greek poet dated AD 1938, showing many so called modern fishing articles existed long ago. Atheneus notes several pre Christian era writers composing fishing treatises or poems centuries earlier.
A WEAN man never knows when he is mean he only thinks himself cautious. The text likens a near sighted view to misjudging behavior and perception.
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