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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1877
Page
1
A fragment from The Register shares lighthearted lectures and anecdotes. It recounts Bob Ingersoll style tales on creation and a tale of the Russian Emperor Nicholas the theatre and a comic actor, ending with a comic exchange and a diamond studded watch as a gift.
Poem fragment describing spring meeting nature by vale hill windflowers and daffodils as stars of morning and blue speedwell with a loving gaze. The speaker references Love and morning skies in a lyrical, timeless verse.
The verse contemplates fading manhood and memory as daylight, bells, and winds rise and fall. It recalls days gone by, contrasts sunlit mornings with a path lost in death, and notes that the subject bears no memory beyond life’s fading light.
The poem questions where home is and answers with a vision of a place of affection and union. It reflects on gentle hearts, kind voices, and safe happiness. It celebrates friends, blessings from above, and the joy of welcoming loved ones home.
The Cherokee Advocate notes Gen. Sam Houston was adopted by the Western Cherokee Nation and lived in harmony with them. He joined the Texan cause in independence and remained prominent with both sides, never forgotten by Indian friends, always defending red man rights.
Undertakers in Syracuse attribute the city’s unusually low death rate to hard times. They say people forego luxuries, live on plain diets, and think twice before calling a doctor, resulting in fewer funerals and a slower pace of life.
Adelaide Neilson recounts an incident from a Liverpool production of the Lady of Lyons where a gravely ill actor playing Claude Melnotte collapsed after a rushed stage hit. The audience laughed as the scene ended with the line This is the heaviest blow of all, before the curtain fell on an unfinished moment.
An astronomy instructor asks students to name the greatest planet of our solace system. A student replies Saturn, joking that it carries the belt, implying the planet’s prominence in the system.
A San Francisco society belle visits a convalescent married woman and is grilled by her four year old son Charles who asks about babies. The child reveals local street directions for obtaining a baby and questions whether the mother will ever have one. The exchange ends as a servant announces the mother’s presence.
A suburb youth seeks a vest pocket placement during a fitting. The tailor notes left side pockets suit unmarrieds to keep a lady’s picture near the heart, while suggesting married men rarely do the same, sparking a wry exchange about affection and propriety.
A fragment describes a youth who cannot resist smoking in the company of peers. He emits a jaundiced smoke cloud toward a companion, presenting himself as one who learned the habit in infancy, and shows disdain for the boyish group known as the boys.
London registered 298 suicides in 1875, similar to 1876 figures, with 85 per 100,000 population. New York recorded 150 cases in 1876, about 14.1 per 100,000, and a much higher share of Germans. Methods differed: drowning most common in London, while New York saw more gunshot and poison.
A young man escorting a woman on Sunday evenings shifts from sly questions about sleep to a dramatic proposal as he moves closer vow to be her lover and husband. She deftly seizes the moment by scooping him in, ending the tense scene.
Between Danbury and Bethel Connecticut the train usually keeps a schedule but paused for three quarters of an hour to allow a passenger at home to catch a cut. The incident shows the line’s accommodating nature in case of serious illness or death.
Harvard students discuss whether the mind can overcome sleepiness in a nod inquiry style. The dialogue probes psychology and self-control concepts, reflecting campus curiosity about mental influence on rest and alertness.
A brief item observes the manufacturing of s e Pentage stamps with an estimated average cost of one cent per bun, reflecting early pricing details and production notes from a historical period.
The population mix in the Indian Territory is outlined as wild Indians by blood such as Osages and Kiowas totaling about 20,000, and civilized Indians by blood with mixed heritage including Cherokees and Creeks totaling 55,000. White Indians by marriage and black Indians by treaty amount to 6500, plus 6500 negro citizens of the United States. Overall population near 77,000, larger than Nevada.
The article argues against a universal rush to early rising, noting most need seven to eight hours of sleep. It urges individuals to sleep and wake according to their own rhythms, warns of health risks from abrupt awakenings, and questions the practice of forcing children to jump up at a nurse’s call.
A string of old fashioned riddles and wordplay questions with punchlines. The jokes hinge on puns about roles and objects such as ambassadors, sympathy, the sun, a crow, a lawyer, women, temper, mountains, umbrellas, and a drunkard. Each line ends with a humorous twist.
The Belgian war minister promotes a camera obscura method to target torpedoes. A map on a table aligns with the device to reveal moving ship images. When a vessel image covers a torpedo, an electric blast destroys the ship.
A Vere Mont village congregation was disturbed after evening prayer by a voice from a nearby home asking for nails. The reply clarified the nails were in the coffee pot, describing a rural neighborhood quip.
Fragmented OCR text shows garbled phrase about time and a possible currency or event, with unclear references. The readable bits mention St. Paul and odd wording suggesting a mistaken transcription or stray letters, offering no clear event, date, or named entities to report.
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