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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1884
Page
2
August ScHELPER is a barber in Atlanta while M. Mace the famed Paris detective looms tall in legend. Stories wander through fashion in England to a brutal Tombstone lynching and a Norfolk iron works wartime gun with compressed air.
The passage notes Murray possesses an annual income of about £8000, a fortune that is reportedly enjoyed by her son as the principal beneficiary.
JupGE Locks a Florida federal judge faces impeachment claims for pawnbroking usury illicit tobacco dealing and keeping a wrecking schooner along the coast. Allegations describe self granted salvage rulings in admiralty as owner of the Pelican and other serious misdoings tied to insufficient salary.
The State of Michigan leads in lumber production tripling next-highest states. Census figures show Michigan at 4,179,572,000 feet of lumber with Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and New York trailing. The same authority rates Michigan first in salt production. Marthew Arnold peers at Pittsburgh.
The New York Sun recounts a magician who demonstrates mind reading and misdirection with cards and currency. He folds and transfers numbers on a card, switches money from a $2 bill to a $20, distracts attention, then shows a winning poker hand, warning to beware of card-sharpers. The piece ends with a domestic scene of a family and a hairy serpent-like procession of a mother and children beneath a moral undertone.
A satirical piece defends the Heavenly Shrew, contrasting it with a rat. It argues the shrew, misnamed and misjudged, raids pests like roaches and beetles, harms nothing but odor and unease, and should be valued alongside other small creatures despite flaws.
A New York publisher climbs five flights to confront Grabberly the author in his cramped study. The scene features a barter for a dollar, talk of sensational boys’ yarns, and a mock opening of Rickerty Ralph with vivid melodrama, ending as the publisher flees with the dollar.
A collage of opinion excerpts on gender freedom charity and reform from periodicals including London Spectator Inter Ocean and New York Independent. It critiques reformers mercy and justice while praising education and mental discipline amid labor and moral duties.
Police uncover case knife under headboard as a woman explains witches ride nightly and a sitter under the bed fails to stop them. An inquiry shows the belief runs widely among African Americans, with knives kept to ward off the old witch. Also noted are proverb quotes and Prince Victor Plon Plon seeking British military service.
A humorous Uncle Jim yarn in the Editors Drawer recalls a Yale professor’s ethnology visit to Stonington. Jim asserts Patagonians stay five feet nine and a half inches tall, based on measuring hundreds, and in a calm, unexaggerated style he dispels the giants myth.
A railroad president tests an applicant for a conductor role asking if he possesses the necessary qualifications. The dialogue centers on the applicant’s confidence in meeting the responsibilities of the position as the interview unfolds.
A vintage description details sachet fashions including a six inch square with interwoven white and pink ottoman ribbon, violet powder filling, satin bow, and painted ends. It notes a lace edged white satin bag with a monogram, a mouchoir case, and powder usage bought from a druggist, plus ribbon tied flaps and silver fasteners.
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