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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1892
Page
2
A compilation of opinion items and dispatches criticizing gossip in society, immigration pressures in New York, Polish independence fervor, and a call to end illicit uses of the U.S. mails. The piece contrasts editorial stances on social norms, journalism, and policy with sharp, opinionated asides about current events and figures.
A Chicago citizen vanished into a quagmire eight miles from a banquet, rescued after four hours of hard work. Police report no clear explanation, attributing the incident to heavy drinking and a narrow road. Paris has spent a million on a new Labor Exchange.
The article notes workingmen may obtain free office spaces and meeting rooms through exchanges that handle business transactions and gatherings annually. It cites Paris as having granted such an institution to workers without conditions, funded and supervised by the City Council. It suggests American cities could profitably adopt similar exchanges.
A Chicago news column denounces Peter Gratz for vandalous vitriol and calls for the longest applicable sentence. It disputes the city’s lax response to crime and mocks a Tribune Lincoln anniversary piece while reflecting on age and mortality in public discourse.
The banana gains fame for its claimed life sustaining qualities and wide cultivation. Described as a developed tropical lily, it surpasses wheat and potatoes in growth potential on similar ground. Humboldt noted ground yielding 99 pounds of potatoes or 33 pounds of wheat could produce 4,000 pounds of bananas, far outpacing both staples.
The poem portrays a warrior turned cleric walking a cathedral aisle in a snow stole, his strength and leadership softened by sacred duty. It contrasts brutal battlefield glory with quiet spiritual work, as the singer leads choristers and seeks divine compassion over conquest. The leader bears a crown of boys and eyes that reveal inner resolve toward divine service.
Forrest Crissey narrates Argus Steele, new High Bridge keeper, whose past searches for his missing child tied to Casamicciola earthquake drive him to man the solitary bridge. On April 2, during a deadly quake aftershock, his hand on a wheel saves a stalled express as rescuers bring proof his child is alive.
A reflective line urges people to ease mockery of neighbors misfortunes and focus on their own shortcomings, advocating gentler humor and self awareness.
A New York woman recalls failing to match her mother in law’s pumpkin pies. After endless attempts with various recipes, she learns from the mother that no ordinary pumpkin is used, only the delicate flesh of squash, sparking laughter and a cooking showdown.
The Philadelphia Times laments casual first name usage among adults, arguing that calling married women by first names or men as boys shows rude manners. It urges keeping courteous forms of address after reaching adulthood, condemning lingering childhood intimacies.
The article notes a belief that magnetic lines affect sleep and some place beds north and south but offers no verdict on the truth. It mentions a sunlit bed can disturb sleep and that nearby shading or precautions may help in sickness.
Advertises spring work in Minnesota and North Dakota's Red River Valley. Says 10,000 more laborers needed to plow and seed in 1892 due to large crops and winter threshing. Invites sons of farmers from the East to write to local recruiters for details.
The article notes 1891 mortality figures in Russia showing 858 persons aged 100 to 105, 130 aged 115 to 120, and three reported to have lived to 150 years or more, challenging views on life span amid famine and nihilism.
D G Davidson of Boston Budget reports twelve years of catarrh with daily nosebleeds eased after trying Ely's Cream Balm. He says the nauseating throat drops stopped from the first day of use and soreness vanished.
Tes In Fiji notes tea growing rising as a major industry with anticipated traffic in the article. Cragin & Co of Philadelphia offers Dobbins Electric Soap wraps and 25 cent novels via postpaid, plus a 1 cent stamp for catalogue. Cocoanuts fibers used in ropes and mats. Hee man’s Pills advertised at 25 cents a box. Alaska plans a canning establishment for wild geese.
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