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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1891
Page
2
A miscellany notes 19th century curiosities and oddities from Hudson Wisconsin to Africa prayer and mission counts, rail and travel statistics, chocolates and lace gunpowder experiments, antic thefts at Smithsonian, cork cutting yields, sea sickness, and social foibles like the barber brush blackmail tale.
The passage relays a comic hat health debate with conflicting expert diagnoses blaming stiff or soft hats for catarrh and baldness, plus a Curtenco drummer who triumphed at a spelling school only to be ambushed by peers who left him for dead after a three mile chase through the woods.
At a Geological Society meeting in London a display featured the so called little hero, a gold nugget weighing 330 ounces eight pennyweights. Found at Shaw's Fall about 200 miles from Roebourne and 80 miles from Nullagine, at eight inches depth, it was exhibited by Harry Page Woodward FG. 5.
Police found two van loads of stolen property in a Cincinnati house occupying three large rooms. The owner claimed ignorance, suggesting it was placed while he slept by a person with false keys. He offered no solid theory beyond that, asserting he had no knowledge of any thefts.
The article surveys the impending expiry of the Bell telephone patent in England and the 1893 U.S. termination, then moves through a string of curiosities and sketches. It recounts a magistrate’s blunt exchange with a boy witness, population estimates for 1900, a Japanese expedition by Henry Lavner Lanper, photographic feats of underwater movement, and quirky medical and criminal anecdotes.
James A. Garfield frames the monument as a symbol of courage sacrifice and memory. He recalls how millions offered their lives and endured ruin to defend the nation, stressing the endured truths behind the granite and the evolution of Decoration Day from mourning to shared tribute across armies and communities.
The passage envisions lasting domestic peace after conflict with the North and South under American liberty. It expresses hope that people will sleep in peace and rise in harmony beneath the flag of stars, guided by republican ideals.
Official returns show 2 653 000 soldiers enlisted response to Lincoln calls with 186 000 colored. Battles totaled over 2000 with heavy losses. major campaigns and fatalities tallied 303 843 from battle, wounds, disease and other causes, plus prisoners died in enemy hands and deserters or missing. State quotas list numerous totals across districts and states, including Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and others. figures reflect a grim war census and demographic breakdown.
A thought piece links Union soldiers to Christian atonement, arguing the four hundred thousand who fell helped free slaves and secure national salvation. It likens battlefields from Cairo to Richmond and Atlanta to Golgotha, asserting their suffering achieved everlasting life for the nation.
A patriotic reflection on postwar unity honoring Union and Confederates as brothers in one republic. The speaker recalls shared sacrifice, unsettled animosities, and cheers for the living with tears for the dead, urging harmony at the graves of fallen soldiers.
A deputy sheriff confronts Dan the circuit rider in an East Tennessee cabin as Dan defends his gun habit, recounts community efforts to reform him, and jokes about quitting whisky, tobacco, and Sunday fishing. The tale ends with Dan deciding to leave the community for Arkansas.
A woman reads a couplet believed true while her husband asks if the verse explains why it hurts both to spank their lively boy and to hear him cry. The exchange contrasts poetry with domestic discipline in a brief domestic vignette.
A cigarette manufacturer ridiculed Representative Few's pill, saying most cigarettes are harmful yet so are candies and liquor. He praised Virginia high-grade tobacco and French rice paper as superior while blaming the popular waper for most trouble. The Philadelphia Press quote contrasts with New York papers noting Milwaukee's Henry Bergh monument as surprising.
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