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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1884
Page
2
The Register notes thirteen ice companies in New York City retailed about 4,000,000,000 pounds of ice last year, nearly two tons per resident on Manhattan. It forecasts season supply to last until 1886 and catalogs a mosaic of facts from turkeys to camels, Polygamy debates, and Beecher family notes.
Nashville doctor Tur Miles Standish known as Jack Frost wooed a widow then sent Mr. Hill with horse and buggy to fetch her for marriage while he prepared, later Hill and wife sued for breach of promise. In Baltimore a woman named Mrs James Cosgrove faced tangled marriages as she learned the first husband lived with her and with another wife.
A president commissions a local artist to design official uniforms, calling for showy outfits for the public, navy, army, and secretly for the police. The artist notes the police outfit with riding boots, a yellow coat with purple trim, and a three cornered hat plume. The piece then shifts to a proposed land allotment bill for Indians in the Indian Territory, outliningapa sections to heads of families and orphans, with provisions for pro rata division where land is insufficient.
A humorous exchange in the Police Court where a gentleman asks if silence can form slander. The judge replies no, then is asked for a cartoon example involving two ducks tied to a physician s door knob. The judge calls it fowl slander in Carl Pretz e s Weekly.
In a Fort Smith to Muskogee stage ride a boy provokes a Cherokee council member with questions about scalps and wild Indians. The exchange reveals cultural tension, humor, and the boy’s persistence as the half Indian diplomat and the woman passenger manage his curiosity.
A traveling agent known as Smithy had his name legally changed from Wintringham to Smith for business ease and delivery accuracy. In Milwaukee a veteran John Smith in the clothing trade faced a feud with his son sharing the same name, a vendetta that strained family business relations.
Bill Nise recalls a rural man drawn into a scam at a side show in Greeley Colorado. A velvet coated stranger, black mustache, funds a copper prize by proxy, baiting the mark with a single dollar then swapping for a brass locket. Loss follows as spectators wager and mock the gullible man.
The article reports Le Conte's global coal distribution estimates across nations and regions, cites gold and silver production through 1880, and lists world railroad mileage by country. It notes US engineers estimate 20,000 navigable river miles plus 15,000 in the St Lawrence system. It ends with a brief joke about two farmers settling a boundary dispute and their lawyers.
A long column argues against scolding wives or husbands amid daily frictions. It urges men to understand wives’ fatigue and women to greet returning husbands with a smile, while condemning abuse and excessive lecturing. It also includes a penny water purifier idea, plus a short humorous vignette about a suitor’s payback.
A collage of quips and notices from multiple papers and regions. It blends jokes on weather, fashion, travel, and society with satirical lines about culture, manners, and urban life, mentioning diverse locales like Wagon Wheel Colorado New York and Philadelphia.
A Denver style portrait of Senator Tabor partner Riche a German cobbler turned bonanza magnate who built a red brick two mile from town house married retired to his fortress like dwelling mistrusting banks kept cash on hand to guard against theft and rotating life around provisions. The Kansas City Star notes cotton seed shifts from waste to fertilizer and stock feed at oil mills while Scotland requires a written promissory form for betrothal promises to be legally enforceable.
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