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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1893
Page
3
A railroad purchasing agent audits monthly requisitions from department heads and station agents, seeks low prices in bulk, and maintains large in stock orders. He adjusts orders to balance demand and price, buying millions yearly in items from iron to waste to stationery, with a focus on discounts and stock control.
A Indianapolis Journal interview notes odd beliefs about fires and omens, recalling a North End blaze sparked by a Japanese lantern hung for political reasons. A widowed mother jokes about saving silver candlesticks while her four children sleep upstairs, illustrating misplaced priorities after danger.
The article notes Mohammed T. used fourteen heavy bombards at Scutari Albania with shots from 500 to 1,640 pounds. It cites 2,534 shots totaling about 1,000 tons, carved from rock, and compares to 80 and 100 ton guns with even larger projectiles. It adds earlier Rhodes siege casting sixteen basilisks and a green sea color from medusa life forms. It ends with a humorous anecdote about boiling water in a hotel envelope experiment.
The excerpt muses on the crookedness of the co coanut palm and a Malay proverb about fate, noting that few arrested men grasp their wrongdoing. It also jokes that misfortune is tied to a virtuous wife who won’t sew a button on Sundays.
A fragment from a 19th century issue covers U S Government baking powder analyses praising Royal as the most powerful and pure. It includes a story about two women discussing rescue work and a girl’s token found in a pocket. The page also notes medical claims about rheumatism and endorses Mistletoe Stomach Bitters as a remedy.
A carved account questions Nelsons famous order with a claim that a variant phrase was used. The piece also promotes Hall s Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio claiming constitutional treatment and a 100 dollar cure guarantee with testimonials and circulars.
A Providence man claims a steam infused hollow grid picker improves cotton during picking by opening fibers and removing dust while reducing reliance on glass finishing. The article also notes Dorpat University's Russification and long standing school traditions including Winchester’s boys language. Detroit’s Mrs Delia Miner is noted for chronic thirst and long imprisonment.
The text reports London daily port activity with about 1,000 ships and 9,000 sailors in its port, plus annual police custody around 75,000 and 25,000 annually arrested for drunk and disorderly behavior. It notes 27,000 housed in common lodgings and that over a third of county crime occurs within London. Also mentions Norman-English ladies styling, and 24,306,905 gallons of wine produced in 1890.
A fragmentary news snippet mentions a young man arranging work with B. K. Johnston & Co. of Richmond, Virginia, inviting card requests for more information. It notes no fatalities in a Maine railroad wreck since 1889 and advertises Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Eye-water while quoting literary maxims from Bancroft and Disraeli.
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