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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1873
Page
1
The column lists rates for one month and longer periods, including one month for $15 and three months for $40, with six months at $40 and three months at $25 again. It notes prepaid payment requirements for all transient ads and pay on delivery for job work.
A state electrome coroner in New York presided over a death near Five Points with a single Italian child as witness. The coroner spoke seven languages without eliciting a word as the jury watched, and the examination adjourned amid solemn, muted ceremony.
A Paris Academy prize proposed simple death indicators, noting circulation proves life until final. The Tribune reports Grant and Washington Ring members plan a Nast prize. if Nast is dead, funds go to fireman orphans. Miss Grundy quotes Mme Marquise on American life. Colfax likened to an angel turned Mobil liar after Credit Mobilier scandal.
A cold winter night at a small Illinois stop finds travelers in a store bar as a midnight train nears. Josh Kelsey recalls a tale of Ike Blood, a fight with Dave Brown, and a dramatic clash over Mag Brown involving Adolphus Bayne, ending with a looming payback and the whistle of the arriving train.
A Connecticut deacon, drunk after celebrating the Fourth, explains hot day and punch with ice. A church member objects, saying he should be jerked out for lying about seeing ice in July. The piece lampoons political lying by referencing Congress and Credit Mobilier stock.
The Detroit Free Press recalls an incident on an excursion return from Detroit to Toledo. A stranger demanded the steward’s authority to eject a man from the cabin after pointing out a couple embracing. The steward, thinking only of disorder, asked for proof, while the man revealed his claim that he had endured the behavior long enough and had become angry.
A Chicago magistrate ruled that reporters are a privileged class with broad access to information and must be indulged with the largest liberty. The decision warns that such privileges could prompt overcrowding of the profession in the West.
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