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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1872
Page
1
The column lists advertising rates by duration: one month ten dollars, six months thirty one dollars twenty four, three months sixteen dollars, twelve months forty dollars. Whole column rates are fifteen dollars monthly, fourty dollars for six months, twenty two fifty for three months. Each veneer advertises sixty dollars. All transient ads require advance payment and for odd jobs payment on delivery.
A playful verse narrates a home renovation chaos as carpets come up and rooms swap disorder for cleanliness. The mistress and matrons scrub while the master returns to find books, pens, and papers displaced, sparking playful blame and domestic strain.
A historical Virginia era list warns readers on preserving food and cleaning habits. It covers spoilage from cream moulds to bones burned for soup, dishes and utensils misused, and methods to prevent waste. The piece notes loss of food, items, and even canary birds due to neglect and improper storage.
A narrator recounts a fanciful trip through Yosemite and San Joaquin Valley, meeting a frugal rancher named Clamps and a story of enormous eggs and a pumpkin boat. He describes a pumpkin seed sprouting and dragging him along a field, plus a Stockton area grape vine that lifted a house sixty feet, creating a winding staircase to the front door.
A satirical recipe from a Richmond periodical mocks the creation of a fashionable woman. It lists absurd “ingredients” from bones and whalebone to silk, trims, and perfumes, ending with a warning that such a dish is expensive and indigestible and may harm children.
The article extols bamboo as a versatile resource for food, utensils, lightweight but strong timber, barrels and boats, with trunks reaching 100 feet. It highlights hollow stems, rapid growth, and blooms only twice a century after about 50 years, then the plant dies after seeding. It also notes the Bishop Lee Seminary in Dubuque selling for 10 000 dollars to be replaced by a German theological school.
An account from an Overland Monthly piece describes a 300 mile survey route to Santa Fe with 80 men. A Navajo man participates in tail docking a dog, leading to a comic and graphic incident of the tail being cut too short and the phrase cut um tail cut um too short quoted.
The Italian poet Tasso, traveling between Rome and Naples, was captured by bandits and plundered. Marco Selari of Abruzzi freed him after recognizing his name and forbidding further plunder. A prince once confined Tasso in a mad house for years, while critics and poverty marked much of his life.
Leonard of the Cleveland Teader unveils a sheet-iron gat with cylindrical attachments and steel claws worked by clockwork. A bellows tail swells and a tremolo lets the device imitate a living bird, drawing cats to pounce. Armored cat defends while others retreat.
The text argues true gentility lies in civility and kindness toward all, praising those who seek the welfare of others. It recalls a Fort Madison, Iowa, military station established sixty four years ago under Madison’s administration, noting local pride in upright citizens.
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