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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1870
Page
1
Advertising rates for The Register are outlined with payment in advance at two dollars per year and penalties for delays. Local column notices are charged double, with various rates for quarter and full columns, and transient ads must be prepaid.
A young farmer Newton Streeter and his wife Mary endure hardship after marriage. He grows wealthy farming on eighty acres while she bears heavy domestic toil. Illness nearly drives her to ruin, but a doctor’s warning and his renewed sorrowful care lead to a return home richer in love, health, and a reimagined life.
A fragment urges a listener to resist city temptations and vices. It contrasts urban lure with the safety and rewards of rural farm life, warning that wealth in mines abroad fades beside the steady merit of homestead work.
A guide advises washing every fruit tree in the orchard at least twice yearly with a strong liquid to kill insect eggs and mosses. Caustic fluids have killed trees, lime whitewash is unsightly, and mild soaps are too weak. A solution of washing soda and rain water is recommended to cleanse bark, kill pests, remove dead bark, and promote a healthy surface.
The forticulturist editor cites many cases where old orchards revived by liberal use of wood ashes and soil stirring restore fruitfulness. Potash is key to growth in all fruit trees, with an anecdote of an old man claiming an orchard on poor ground thrived by yearly applications around each tree of half a bushel of ashes within the branch spread.
A Massachusetts Plaeman writer explains using permanganate of potassa to cleanse foul pork barrels and remove carbolic acid odor from hands. A pint poured into filthy contents plus a brief rinse dissolves foul growth and fermenting matter, leaving the container sweet. Sulphur is also praised as a deodorizer with a dairy odor example.
A historical note explains marble manufacture in Oberstein on the Nehr, Germany. Agate blocks are cut and ground into spheres through hammer blows and grinding edges, producing the popular little round stones for American markets. The process uses oak or hard wood supports and revolving slabs to shape and polish the spheres.
In the southern region delegates contend for positions on the State ticket while dissidents claim their claims lack proper response. The piece notes Indiana Radicals receiving honors with a colored Vice President designation and shifts of substantial convention powers amid political tension.
In scattered parts of the country demand grows for ice making machines costing around 50 dollars, with capacity about 12 tons daily. While New Orleans models claim 20 tons per day, pond ice still sells for 10 dollars per ton to families. A German-made device allegedly produces machine ice that resembles frozen snow and does not melt quickly. The piece also touches on social issues, including dissipation and a humorous and chaotic schoolroom anecdote, framed by a broader, often unrelated set of observations.
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