12 Mar 1880
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1880
Page
1
A local grocer promotes a prize giveaway listing numerous items including buggies watches shotguns and foods. Purchasers earning 50 cents worth of goods gain a chance to win prizes in a May 17, 1880 drawing at the East Main Street store, Owen & Co. Dass pending heavy text.
E F Owen & Co announces a July 1 1880 drawing offering tickets with every dollar spent. Prizes include buggies plows rooks and kitchen implements plus 100 prizes valued at 500 dollars total. Authority and details appear in the notice.
In a refined household, Madge Clarrence quietly aids a stranger in the kitchen while Mabel flirts at a party with Mr. Daryl Ermine. Ermine pleads a disguise tale and confesses love for Madge, reshaping family fortune as Mabel accepts a sister-in-law role.
Harvard Crimson recounts a three month vacation romance sparked by a chance meeting at Wallack's. The narrator recalls a flirtation with a woman guarded by her mother and a dramatic finish as the heroine resists, leaving the speaker heartbroken.
A London World verse fragment traces a woman accepting blame for love and the sudden death of her beloved before the morrow. The speaker laments the sacrifice of emotions and the lost connection as the beloved vanishes, leaving memory and regret.
An advertisement extols Avea's Sagsara- RILLA as a premier vegetable remedy with iodide of potassium and iron. It claims rapid cures for scrofula boils eruptions and blood-impurity disorders, improves liver function female health and vitality, and notes forty years of extensive use by A. I. Iretageot & Co. as agents.
The Denver World’s Gold notes gold volume and value estimates across units, while a Chicago clothier offers $1 for every male child born in November and December with a potential rise if the shop can name the baby. A French blue book cites Jesuit establishments thriving in 51 of France’s 81 departments.
The London Society piece argues luck evens out over time, noting players who lose for a year can rebound next year. It warns against betting beyond means and praises legitimate whist as inexpensive, restful, and mentally engaging, advising "Play whist and you will be spared a sorrowful old age."
A short discourse praises concise letters and notes habits like postscript use and underlining. It cites Politian’s brief Italian letter about grief and joy as a model and quotes Thomas Fuller on fools with big and small heads.
The article recalls the 1870s exodus as Alsace-Lorraine inhabitants chose between French or German nationality. By September 30 the choice mattered greatly, with earlier years seeing mass migrations of up to fifty thousand people and aid from Europe and beyond. Minors risked German military service unless separated by border-crossing parents.
A sharp observer notes a woman in a garret spotting a hen in a verbena bed. She descends, drops items from her pocket, sneaks to the garden, and throws a stone at a neighbor, then reflects on women and a new coin nicknamed Stella by Sam Alexander Stephens.
An Illinois clergyman helps a heartbroken girl on a train to a small station, where he retrieves his watch and discovers $200 missing. The piece ends with a moral note that some things cannot be done without money, buttons, and the baker.
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