25 Jun 1880
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1880
Page
1
A 1880 prospectus announces a customer drawing on July 1 offering tickets with each dollar spent. Prizes include a buggy, scales, sulky, plows, cultivators, knives, a shotgun, silverware, bird cage, bell, and multiple garden tools among many items.
The piece centers on Pierre Valere a French sergeant who vows to honor his dying mother by planting violets on her grave and later deserts to fetch them. Napoleon Bonaparte intervenes saving him offering a new life, and Valere returns to the battle where he dies defending France. The tale notes the violet emblem linked to Bonaparte.
Large consignments of batter shipped in ten pound packages enclosed in tin cans to Scotland arrive in good order and sell readily at 374 cents per pound. Gold is found in fifty six counties in Georgia, silver in three, copper in thirteen, iron in forty three, diamonds in twenty six, and whisky in all of them.
A fragmentary clipping notes a quip about Ear Eive as the first woman to live without visiting the post office due to Adam not delivering letters. It mentions an editor advising on farming with a spoon and praises a young woman who can peel a potato in five seconds and speak five languages.
In his early ministry Dr Strong of Hartford Connecticut preached in a village where a committee asked him to settle. They said the people thought he favored universal salvation. He replied he never preached it but if he did he would make an exception for that town. Hartford Post reports the exchange.
The mother of several children recounts devoting herself to their care. She attended to their physical and mental needs, finding laborious work rewarding as her offspring grew healthy, brave, honest, and self sustaining early. She notes they avoided vices linked to intimate company and ripened in judgment and common sense.
A country doctor consoles a widow with the line that giving should be sincere not transactional. He recalls their bosom friendship and the pain of the husband’s death, stressing that true gifts are not bargains or expected in return. The excerpt contrasts genuine generosity with huckstering.
History records the crockery article being made at an early date and notes the Egyptians produced that article 1390 years before Christ. The remark highlights ancient pottery skills and antiquity of tableware.
Prof Treichler cites rising school headaches in Nuremburg and London due to heavy intellectual load and night work. Latin study at sight has doubled over 30 years, reflecting parental pressure and crowded classrooms, with only the healthiest pupils spared.
Cherokee Advocate recalls Creek gathering at Park Hill seven miles from town for rain making. Two elderly conjurers murmured prayers while a youth dipped into the deep Illinois River, returned with a blue catfish, which was burned as rain was invoked and the night darkened with renewed mumbling.
An American mother, after hearing of two equally eligible suitors for her elder daughter in Paris, sails to hold both in the air. She arrives to witness two weddings on the same morning at the American Chapel, her daughters already set to share a future.
German authorities restrict all persons under sixteen from smoking in streets in several towns. A Belgian physician reports widespread tobacco use causes color blindness, raising concerns for railroad safety and military readiness.
A host's son interrupts a dinner table discussion, declaring his mother superior to any man ever made, challenging the shared belief that honesty defines nobility in work. The exchange highlights family pride and playful hierarchy within a domestic scene.
A fragment notes that hospitality is perfected by the poor while questioning how the rich would share if they practiced it, reflecting on compassion amid global sorrows. The line names Boba AgueREY as a quoted or misread figure in a reflective aphorism.
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