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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1877
Page
1
The Register lists subscription terms with price two dollars annually and notices that arrears trigger discontinuance. It details advertising rates by column size, space, duration, and notes prepayment for transient ads and note on street work payment on delivery.
The poem speaks in loving terms about the limits of human hearts and the longing to bridge distance. It imagines seasons and natural images as catalysts for tender thoughts between two friends and asks for reassurance and continued companionship beyond hope’s horizon.
A dramatic vignette of a pair torn by social barriers and poverty. A lovelorn woman pleads to stay with the beloved as he urges that fate and worldliness demand their separation. She vows to endure poverty or death for their bond, clinging to him as he resists and withdraws.
The city reports a debt reduction of 594967.85 in the past year and 2102987 in two years, bringing total indebtedness to 22638779. Nearly half of the bonded debt has been refinanced at a lower interest rate. An unrelated anecdote from Dublin describes a man denying an accusation of opacity and identifying himself as O'Brien.
An old report notes a process for making tougher glass and rising lamp chimney tech costs. It mentions a Wisconsin resident securing land for coffee vanilla cocoanuts and spices with a Milwaukee company forming to manage the venture.
The scene depicts Returning B. Hayes arriving in Washington to a stark reception with no official welcome. African Americans rally to honor him, while he laments a lack of pomp, offers a handshake, and pays a dollar for a traveling bag. He speaks with Grant about abstinence and political duty amid scrutiny of his feasibility for office.
A fragment from the New York Sun recounts a late night in the White House with Ulysses S Grant and Rutherford B Hayes. They discuss politics, reputation, and constitutional principles amid an atmosphere of uneasy trust and deception.
A reflective admonition suggests that isolation and coldness stem from one’s own actions. It argues that those who complain most often have themselves contributed to the lack of warmth and faith in the world.
The passage argues that while wit judgment and knowledge impress, good nature bestows a thousand attractions and an air of beneficence to even a homely face, elevating the overall appeal and charm.
A minister preaches in a stuffy church with a partially open window. A deacon shuts it with a corked stop, provoking the minister to remark in solemn tones about self made men and worship. The tale contrasts pride and self reliance with humor.
The article extols learning to write with the left hand and discusses dual-hand dexterity across tasks from table manners to shaving, music, and sports. It cites examples from Yale oarsmen, Balzac, Roscoe, a Connecticut clergyman, and the Bronte family, arguing early training can yield equal skill in both hands and noting practical benefits in daily use and performance.
A Detroit Free Press cartoonish tale recounts a grocer's boy who swapped an orange for a prank. He explains he hid one orange by claiming an old bald gardener nearly fell from a plum tree, prompting the lady to demand another orange for the intended trick.
The London Echo notes a seven inch Babylonian cylinder with engraved vertical lines as evidence of ancient printing. It suggests the device demonstrates early methods of preserving and multiplying records and implies pressure application akin to modern newspaper printing.
A Paris jeweler notes a sharp drop in diamond values due to abundant finds in Brazil and South Africa. He adds that trade remains limited as most buyers flip stones, few give away, and only a minority retain and wear them.
A belief that ivy causes damp is mistaken. Plant English ivy at the wall base, especially on north walls, as its foliage blocks rain and its roots absorb moisture within the wall, aiding dryness.
All the apparatus on exhibition at the Centennial illustrating the workings of the United States Life Saving service is now being put up at Sea Grove Cape May Point New Jersey and will be the model station in the country.
Mrs. Cady Stanton aided a young eastern student entering the ministry. The first text the ungrateful brute in embryo preached from was Let the women keep silence in the churches. The remark reflects era attitudes toward female clergy and public speaking.
The Chicago Journal says to reveal skin discoloring after a raise by applying a paste of dry starch or arrowroot moistened with cold water to the injured area for examination.
In Galveston Texas a doctor raised a sweet potato weighing eighteen and a half pounds. Two patients recovered while he watched the remarkable crop grow.
The Bank of England provides free medical attendance to its employees. The notice notes the gesture aims to support worker health and welfare, detailing the arrangement and scope of the medical service available to staff members.
The article traces nitroglycerine’s invention by Solvero and Nobel’s development of blasting methods including dynamite. It explains mixing nitroglycerine with silica earth to form giant powder, its safety advantages, and rival explosives. It notes dynamite’s efficiency for tunnels and rock cuts, and cautions on accidental detonations and historical mishaps.
In Princeton Kentucky Susan Shrock known as a trustworthy fortune teller predicted C Lewis Hollingaworth would die at unknown hands on the highway and that his horse would return alone. Days later Hollingaworth began a ride and the horse returned without him while Susann herself likewise vanished with his wife left grief stricken by the mystery.
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