Resin Premiums Include Largest-Ticket Holder Prize
A promotion states that beyond specified premiums, the person with the most tickets who is not among the top three prize winners will receive a $50 PREMIUM. IG
19 Mar 1880
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1880
Page
1
A promotion states that beyond specified premiums, the person with the most tickets who is not among the top three prize winners will receive a $50 PREMIUM. IG
A local notice advertises a prize distribution linked to purchases at a family grocery store on East Main Street. The offer lists numerous prizes including watches, a shotgun, baby carriage, silverware sets, cigars, coffee, sugar, flour, brandy, wine, and more. Each 80 cents worth of goods purchased earns a chance to win prizes, with the distribution scheduled for Monday May 17, 1880. The ad urges customers to visit the store one door south of Owen's Agricultural and Hardware Store.
An advertisement promises customers who spend one dollar receive a chance ticket for a drawing featuring numerous prizes valued at up to $500 each. Prizes include buggies, farm equipment, silverware, and household items, with 100 prizes totaling $500.00.
The piece from The Register tells of a poor boy Tom who, while learning on a snowy path, meets a generous stranger who reveals he is a member of Congress. The man recounts how studying by firelight helped him learn Latin grammar and inspires Tom to pursue education despite hardship.
A poem asks who provides comfort at home and in distress and finally resolves to change single life by taking Hymen to heart and marriage. It repeats questions about a silent partner who manages home, care, fire, and solace, culminating in a vow to wed.
A lyrical poem expresses enduring love as lasting as mountains, wind, rivers, sun, flowers, the moon, and starlit nights. The speaker pledges unwavering truth and devotion across time, nature, and travel. The verses compare vow strength to nature's constants and celestial light.
By Universal Accord AYeER's CaTuartic PILLs are the beat of all purgatives for family use. They are the product of long, laborious, and successful chemical investigation, and their extensive use proves them best and most effectual purgative Pill. Purely vegetable, no harm from use. They keep the system in order and sustain life. Mild, searching and effectual for digestive derangements. safe for children and weakened constitutions. A. H1. Fretageot & Co., Agents.
A physician extols outdoor living as healthful and character shaping. A Redditch factory alone spools 6 to 7 million needles weekly, about 350 million yearly, supplying a third of the globe. John A. Cuthbert, aged 91, still practices law in Mobile, noting his War of 1812 service and 1820 Congress tenure.
A New Hampshire schoolboy named Tom receives a Latin grammar and Virgil from a kindly stranger who promises payment when Tom reaches Congress. Years later Tom becomes a U.S. representative and reunites with the donor, noting the gift helped his rise through patient study, work, and perseverance.
A long statistical discussion compares populations and areas of states with England and other nations, suggesting dense settlement could yield hundreds of millions. It argues against corporal punishment, urging parents to govern without whipping and citing harm to children and home life.
A Wayne county farmer had wheat stolen and obtained a warrant for a young man nearby. In court the defendant’s alibi relied on his girlfriend who testified he sat with her from 7 pm until morning. The man claimed the alibi, but the reaction and joking tone in the exchange reflected the case’s farcical moment.
Dr Guillasse of the French navy reports that coffee rapidly relieves typhoid fever symptoms. Two to three tablespoons of strong black coffee every two hours, with claret or Burgundy wine, calms stupor and restores alertness. Daily citrate of magnesia and later quinine aid convalescence. The disease is seen as a nervous disorder with early nervous symptoms, making coffee especially useful early on.
Colonel Solon delivers an impromptu speech condemning drunkenness as a terrible virtue. He narrates witnessing graves of the drinkers and the misery of the poor, cites Shakespeare, and ends by noting he misreads Latin and must stop. The remarks reveal the speaker’s improvisation and self-acknowledged blunders.
A reflective meditation on love after death contrasts enduring sorrow with gentler recollection. The author argues forgiveness strengthens the soul and hushes revenge, praising meek courage as the noblest human trait. The piece threads sorrow, memory, and moral resolve into a single contemplative voice.
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