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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1875
Page
1
Twin brothers swap lives to save a butter shop
Dick Perkins and his twin Jim hatch a plan to swap identities to save the butter shop from a menacing butcher and police pressure. Jim fakes a crime scheme, then after a dramatic ruse Dick resumes business. Jim later retires from racing and becomes a farmer. the ruse boosts Dick’s shop and a romantic ending follows.
Letter From Husband Triggers Scene At General Delivery
A middle aged woman receives a letter at the post office general delivery and reads it aloud on a window sill. She reacts with affection calling her husband dear and sunbeam while noting his sympathy for her health and teasing him about a red headed widow. She rushes to the telegraph office to dispatch news about his plans and snow delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint
Kernshaw
Traiis
A Ward Drinker in Court Hearings
In Circuit Court No. 4 Judge Lindley trial a witness described drinking habits with incredulous numbers. He admitted drinking from twice daily to seventy five drinks daily while employed at a stable, insisting he never got drunk and that his beverage was water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindley
Circuit Court No. 4
St. Louis
A Singular Sentence Echoes In Bishop Ames Tale
A medieval style wordplay story recounts a slave master and Pompey in Missouri with a hidden acrostic. The tale, framed by an ivil era dialogue, explores moral restraint and the preacher’s role amid plantation pressure. The narrator notes the sentence "Later arepo tenet opera rotas" as a palindrome device.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Missouri
Pompey
Whisky Tax Reform Described as Easily Rectified
In a measured remark, deference is praised as the most complex and elegant compliment. The speaker adds that regarding the whisky tax, the issue can be resolved with straightforward fixes.
Trapping Grasshoppers in Algeria Method Adopted
Gen Chanzy directed Algerian division and prefects to use Cyprus style traps to destroy grasshopper eggs and intercept marching crickets. Cyprus bands of silk create a long gallery trap, 100 metres long, with earth mounding to seal the route, capturing crickets when they reach the trench.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanzy
Algeria
Cyprus
Crickets —Journal of Chemistry
Curious Language Anomalies Across Nations
A historical note catalogs how languages differ in basic concepts. It claims Hindoos lack a word for friend, Italians lack humanity, Germans coin terms like finger-hat for thimble and hay horse for grasshopper, and French lack stand and kick concepts, offering polite approximations instead.
Juvenile party tiff over clothes ends in taunt
At a juvenile party a boy boasted about his new clothes and jeered at another. The rival retorted he could defeat him any time, sparking a brief quarrel recollected by Sunscrinet for The Register.
Don Juan Myth and Lithography in Munich 1790
A New York Herald letter recounts Mozart directing the Don Juan premiere in Munich, Alois Sennefelder creating lithography for stage needs, and how Sennefelder’s experiment with damp paper on a stone led to lithography. Franziska Le Brun dies after the performance, prompting Mozart’s somber reflections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Mozart
Alois Sennefelder
Fran Franziska Lebrun
Donna Livira
Alvis Sennefelder
Theater
Sennefelder
Franziska Lebrun
Hoffmann
New York Herald
Sniffles Keeps Extra Change After Coffee Stunt
A man named Sniffles pays with a five and a one for a dollar coffee, the grocer returns two dollars in change, and Sniffles plans to keep the extra. He frets over honesty, but convinces himself his integrity remains intact while his soul grows sad.
Johnston and a Baltimore encounter after the war
At war’s end General Joe Johnston met a young man in Baltimore who boasted of enjoying social life there. The general asked if he had served, the reply was no, and Johnston quipped that the man might not be subdued but was Tam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Mr. Grote
Grote
Gar
Joe Johnston
Baltimore
Johnston
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