18 Mar 1881
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1881
Page
1
A lively country guest asks a bustling retailer about grogs receipts and grocery seats, prompting playful laughter as the grocer points to barrels and boxes to illustrate the humor of the moment. The scene unfolds with merry banter and a quip about shop fixtures.
Laura and family tour a Greek defile near a buried palace with Bertie, Laura's suitor, revealing tensions and danger. Robber ambushes force Bertie to defend, weapons drawn, revolvers fired, and a murder in the dusk commences. Laura clings to romance while Bertie fights to safeguard them.
A note directed to His Satanic Majesty at Hell Below China reached the Salem Virginia mail agent. He consulted the Salem postmaster who ruled that all foreign mail matter goes North. A curious administrative quirk is revealed in this brief exchange.
The Norristown Herald comments on a heated discourse about social propriety with references to Thackeray and Carlyle as a master, suggesting some winter evenings were not fit for decent people.
The New York World details President Garfield's family noting four sons Narry James Irwin and Abram aged from 8 to 16 and daughter Mollie, with the two eldest in Concord NH preparing for college. It describes Mrs. Garfield as intelligent, reserved, 45, a country-born educator who managed the Washington house and Mentor farm improvements, and as a descendant of General Nathaniel Green. It also mentions Mrs. Eliza Ballou Garfield, 70, strong willed and influential, living with the President.
Mr and Mrs George Cheater who wed a year ago in Milwaukee had Justice Johnson christen their infant after a raffle decided the name Endymion Garfield. The hat drew six names as parents could not agree on a name and witnesses praise the judge. The parents, happy with the titular gift, decline to reveal who chose the name. Miss Selena Fatter, a new dramatic star, is cited as daughter of a pork packer and niece of Henry Watterson, with other garbled notes about Iman Do Mouraka and Alice Oates.
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