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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1873
Page
1
The Register outlines subscription costs and payment rules with annual, semiannual, and quarterly options. It lists ad rates by size and duration, column charges, and advance payment requirements for job work and transient notices.
A Danbury man Reubens resists anger by counting aloud to one hundred when provoked by a neighbor over garden peas. He maintains composure as the neighbor rages, prompting the wife to plead, while the counting continues into the eighties. In the end, one hundred is reached and the neighbor retreats.
John Smith recounts a tale of his son Virgil and a promising colt training on a track. A pig hidden in brush spooked the horse, throwing Virgil but not harming him. The father attempts a stunt by riding the colt while Virgil imitates a pig, ending with the horse bolting and the rider falling, provoking an irritable rebuke.
A long compendium of 19th century letters and recollections discusses Grant and Mosby’s possible friendship, postwar reconciliation, and the idea of extending warm gestures to former foes. It shifts to a New York Sun critique of patriotism, then recalls a New York farmer who resists a British title, followed by reminiscences of Commodore Decatur and Captain Carden amid the War of 1812. A Milton, Connecticut, thunderbolt case ends with dramatic destruction of a house and belongings.
A historical list outlines nine self destructive habits including wearing narrow shoes and snug corsets, staying in hot unventilated rooms, sleeping on feathers, eating erratically, consuming excess caffeine alcohol and tobacco, overindulging in sweets and patent medicines, marrying beyond means, and hiring a fashionable physician for every minor ailment.
A student bursts in with eager doubt about passing. The professor reveals the failure with scornful pride, then the freshman exits in triumph over a bet, while the professor staggers.
A Cincinnati reader warns of Vienna summer extortion by officials and speculators. He claims the grand exposition will drain visitors, dancers will pay, and Americans especially will be squeezed. He cites prices like 810 a day and 30 for a couple, urging readers to see Vienna for themselves.
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