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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1892
Page
2
A condensed, opinionated column reflects on Chicago publishing, the glass industry, and a theater air cut. It notes Ben Butler’s financial success with the American flag and his defense of Chicago anarchists. The piece savages a Spanish government crackdown and mentions a Paris bound American woman fasting seventy days as a foreign whimsy.
A Chicago boy jailed for drunkenness echoes social concerns from a bygone era and spills into a parade of amusing and edgy items. Topics include licensing, red-haired unions, false teeth longevity claims, a five-language interpreter’s pay, Prince George’s court tour, Standard Oil entering telephone business, trolley accidents, the Central Park rhinoceros, and Caricaco curbing skylines to 150 feet amid European trends.
A column laments that unknown victims on the elevated road provoke less public outcry than a conspicuous citizen would. It recalls Dr Bradford’s death in Boston and criticizes Chicago’s Judge Horton for limiting Divorce Court attendance, noting privacy allowed Sheriff Flack to obtain a divorce without the wife’s knowledge.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph lauds the West as rising in influence. it praises Chicago University as drawing Eastern professors into its ranks and notes the East risks losing its role as a center of wealth, trade, and culture if education and literature do not keep pace.
A reflection on Rabbi Liebmann Adler praises his earnest will urging simplicity, modest funeral rites, and three days of mourning. It emphasizes family duty, honesty, frugality, and mutual support as a lasting testament from the deceased. The piece also notes Euler and Pingre computations of Earth's distance to the sun and urges modern astronomers to recognize Euler's early accuracy.
A grieving parent prays for the return of a wayward youngest son. The speaker contends that grace is possible through repentance and asks for divine mercy, hoping the prodigal may come home despite years of wandering. The plea ends with acceptance of God’s will.
A boat club captain despises Waterer the conjurer and bullies the Loadstone in a staged levitation. At the town hall the illusion falters as Waterer rises from his chair, then drops when the conjurer sleeps. Waterer recovers, the Loadstone collapses, and the trick ends with Waterer and crowd unsettled.
Beads and beds evolved from luxury items in ancient Greece and Rome. Rich bedsteads varied in material from ebony and ivory to cedar and silver. An invitation to share such a couch signified deep affection and confidence in old societies.
A Boston journalist critiques New York millionaires and a two million dollar bequest to education. Mrs. Fayerweather contests the will while housing costs and urban vice tempt reform, as director Beitler’s officers close down the Applegate establishment amid a broad critique of urban excess.
A discussion of police action against the Applegate carrousel at Franklin and Vine Streets contrasts amusement value with concerns over promiscuous gatherings at rinks and carrousels. It notes past clergy and police hostility to skating venues and warns about unsupervised late-evening associations forming among youths.
A brief historical note on Humphrey Potter, a boy who devised a device the scoggan to automate the steam engine cocks, increasing strokes per minute from six to fifteen. Henry Beighton later refined the mechanism by replacing strings with a rod and improved hand-gear.
The Oregonian recounts a local legend that the term hoodlum derived from the O’Houghlihan family on San Francisco’s Barbar Coast. Neighbors allegedly called Patsy and Mary Ann to shelter as the boys terrorized the area, and the O word reportedly dropped and twisted by German Italian Chinese and other residents into hoodlums.
A fortune awaits the man who can invent or discover a substitute for leather. For every other article of dress substitutes are in regular use, but the tanned skin of animals, as a covering for the foot, and for harness, belting, &c., is without a substitute. For flexibility and durability, "there's nothing like leather."
The historical grandee once claimed vast privileges including waging war without treason. Reforms gradually reduced these rights. Many believe the world would fall without them, yet upon the grandee’s death the town where he lived experiences a boom.
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