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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1875
Page
3
Advertisements show Thrall & Mumford's selling bacon hams and shoulders fresh from smoke, garden seeds, sorghum, lime, soap supplies, dyes, and a large paint and supplies stock. Mentions new house construction for Mr Pisely, Beecher trial fundraisers, and local humor.
The article cites a 1826 inquiry about labor-saving machines raising production without oppressing workers. It notes Posey County settlement records from 1875 and mentions the introduction of many new machines to farmers, pondering impacts on price, demand, wages, and employment.
The New Harmony Gazette from May 31, 1826 recounts a severe thunderstorm on May 24 that struck the church and boarding school, shattering windows and a steeple, melting a stove-pipe wire, and injuring none despite a dramatic display. It notes ensuing debates on providence, local building plans, and insurance commentary.
A. H. Freragrot & Co. announce a large stock of dry goods notions dress goods boots and shoes and expanded furniture rooms. Dr Woops and Madame Woops, root and herb physicians, will stay at United States Hotel New Harmony until district. The present volume of the Register ends with subscribers urged to renew and join for volume nine. Various notes cover politics and local events including a Brooklyn scandal jury comment and Indiana elections.
A New York man, known for being too freely given to kissing in households of acquaintances, has recently been enjoined from such behavior by a court order. The note reflects on how such injunctions, if issued years ago in Brooklyn, might have prevented much trouble then.
In California the revivalist Hammond clashes with a father who objects to his daughter's fear of hellfire. the parent calls him an ecclesiastical idiot, a charge the preacher does not deny. Also listed are Indiana patent notices from Cox & Cox detailing inventions from May 11, 1875 including a hand corn planter and a machine for making hoops.
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