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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1882
Page
1
The Register lists subscription terms tuning and rates for adverts. It notes price for a year and arrearage policy and outlines rates for fractional squares, quarter to whole column ads, and job work payment terms. The piece includes legal advertisement rules and column pricing with advance payment requirements.
Parlor Store offers 25 cent purchases with a card number entry for a $2500 Organette and over 200 feet of music on April 1. Also features masquerade trimmings including gold and silver braid stars spangles masks and more. Additional stock listed includes stationery toilet articles frames scrapbooks and china ware all priced for spot cash. Wall paper and shades arriving soon. Located one door east of the Viets House.
J. W. Davis acquires Haas business and stock of undertaker goods and Hearse. New extensive selection includes caskets robes shrouds embalming fluids and patent cooling boards. Hearse and horses stationed at Poseyville and Stewartsville with local managers ready to serve funerals.
Advertises steep discounts during hard times at Henry Brown Clothier New Harmony Indiana with 26 percent savings and cost pricing. Also announces administrator sale of estate of Philip Wagner Posey County Indiana with real estate Lots 139 and 140 in Arthur’s Western Enlargement Mt Vernon Court House sale April 8 1882 terms: one third cash one third in nine months one third in fifteen months with 6 percent interest and notes for deferred payments.
Main Street between Church and Tavern hosts a bar offering Paes X Pilsener and Lager Beer on tap along with all mixed drinks of the season. The establishment advertises fine wines liquors and top tobacco and cigar brands, plus free lunch each morning. Albert B. Newsom runs the place.
In New York March 24 a column blends social notes and sharp opinion on labor disputes, monopolies, and a proposed people’s railway. It praises wage gains, warns of strikes, and urges practical measures to spur growth while detailing real estate wealth shifts and a historic Van Rensselaer family tragedy.
A collage of items from rural Indiana and nearby states notes farmers stocking ponds with California mountain trout, rumors of Mt Vernon Republican newspaper consolidations, school idle youth concerns, a Fairfield cyclone with injuries, Wayne City railroad deaths, a rising auditor candidate in Smith township, oats versus corn planting near Owensville, a Petersburg Democrat report on a local hardware job change, dog valuations in Black township, large egg shipments to New York, poor-houses in White County and Pike County, Mt Vernon school enrollments and local professionals, a 1882 Indiana Supreme Court certification for Capt. Wm H Whitworth, praise from judges, Reuben E Fenton elected to council presidency, rare Confederate coins sale in New York, drought losses in Illinois, California Democratic convention dates, poet Lonarraton’s demise, and Mississippi floods easing.
Washington dispatch notes the anti-Chinese bill passing the House 167 to 65 amid Republican defections and a likely presidential signature. The piece claims poor Republican strategy, Democratic gains, and remarks by Senator Jones on race politics. It also covers Grant meeting Arthur, Florida race results, army desertion costs, and various Senate and cabinet intrigue.
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