21 May 1880
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1880
Page
1
E F Owen & Co announce a grand gratuitous allotment with goods offered at usual low prices. Public notice invites customers to take part in the sale event and acquire items at discounted rates.
On July 1 1880 the store will distribute tickets with every dollar spent. Prizes include a top buggy scales sulky riding cultivator walking cultivator wheat drill churn plow saw knife and many other items. Tickets eligible with each dollar of goods bought.
In a Victorian tale from The Register a governess narrator unravels a perilous ruse involving Walter Marston Georgie Abbott and a mysterious letter. Walter returns alive Robert is found and a hopeful double wedding is planned at Cadlands within weeks.
A reflective poem muses on the passing golden hours and the restless human craving for more time. It contrasts beauty and goodness with lingering desires, questioning whether earthly gains satisfy and if mortality clings to life despite joy and sorrow.
An advertisement extols Hawn's Vegetable Hair Renewer as a scientific blend of powerful plant agents restoring gray to original color curing dandruff and hair loss and nourishing the scalp. It claims lasting effects with few applications and endorsements by medical men and Massachusetts officials.
The Savannah News recounts a wartime tale where General McLaws, acting postmaster in Savannah, stops a picket and jokes about being a General. The sentinel, unsure who commands, asks to confirm authority and offers to fetch Betsey Jane for a slate after a brief delay.
A sharp aphorism notes there is no sweeter revenge than encountering your foe at his moment of weakness, a moment described as his tootbacho.
George Abrahams loved cabbage. At midnight he ate his wife’s second shelf stash of lace collars and cuffs hidden in starch, mistaking them for cabbage. The morning reveal exposed the costly, stringy theft.
A quotation warns that curbing criticism of senators and representatives harms democracy. It likens the press to food for the mind and urges removing unjust restrictions to keep press independence and broaden influence across the empire in the west.
The passage argues that eight years of republican France have demonstrated superior liberty and stability compared to Bonaparte rule. It claims France now offers deeper peace and growing prosperity, with a fiscal condition envied by monarchies allied with Kaiser Germany, Russia, and Austria.
The youth Da courted the daughter of a rich pharmacist, boasting of his would be father in law as “the great savant.” His suit was rejected, and now he dismissively refers to the man as “that old herb gatherer.”
The Westminster Review notes world public debt at 24 billion, with railways 6 billion and municipalities 5 billion, totaling 35 billion. It says this debt will not be paid and imposes an annual lien on global industry of 1.7 billion.
Gen Neal Dow complains after finding and seizing a quart of alcohol in a Portland druggist shop. The comment notes alcohol’s role in druggists’ preparations and Dow’s stance against its use in hair oil. An old saying is quoted about being “a terrible critter.”
A capital anecdote recalls a child turning pages in a scrap book and staring at a picture of newly hatched chicks. He declares with a grave look that they emerge because they fear being boiled, a humorous moral in miniature.
A local clergyman arranged for the village barber to shave church members first on Sunday morning to draw a full congregation. In response a rival preacher started a dog fight to delay the men, keeping them from attending services.
A writer notes a boy treats pretend combat as fun. He carries an old shotgun all day and imagines only harmless play, while adults struggle to make him see the violence of killing Indians as he experiments with wood sawing.
An old lady cautions about marrying a widower likening a ready-made family to cold potatoes. A witty reply follows as a dameel vows to warm them and succeeds.
An evangelical caller asks for gospel music from a crone who quips that Memphis has it all. The exchange captures a rural humor moment and hints at gospel’s regional reach in memory.
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