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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1875
Page
4
A gentleman advertised for a waiter and hired Sambo a colored man after a misunderstanding of consequences. Sambo agreed to meet the implied duties, then when ill the doctor arrived with a lawyer undertaker and others, claiming they were necessary consequences of summons.
The article muses on how color could reflect instrument tones, citing Newtonian ideas about nerve impressions and memory. It lists wind and string instruments with color associations, then shifts to quirky vignettes about insurance schemes, a dinner anecdote, fashion notes, school signs, corset imports, and a homily on doing good.
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