28 May 1880
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1880
Page
1
The notice states that besides standard premiums, the holder of the most tickets who does not win any of the three largest prizes will receive an elegant prize. It outlines eligibility and the drawing framework for the event.
Jerome Chase and Willie Vane raise nearly five dollars to help Francisco the violinist after a wheel crushes his instrument. The boys donate pennies, dimes, and a quarter from peers including Jerome, Patty Price, and Mr Grumblepeg, proving the lottery a swindle while aiding the needy musician.
A local ad lists prizes valued at $30,000 including watches, a buggy, a carriage, silverware, and various goods. Purchasers receive a chance in the prize drawing on Monday July 5 1880 after spending 50 cents or more. Goods sold at usual low prices at Seay Family Grocery on East Main Street near Owen's Hardware.
On the first day of July 1880 E will distribute to customers 100 prizes worth $500 total. Each dollar spent earns a ticket for a chance to win items including buggy scales tools knives fishing rods and more. The list features 1 Fine Top Buggy 1 Platform Scale 1 Breech Loading Shot Gun and 50 pocket knives among other goods.
A faded fragment of jasmine spray hints at lost youth and secret longing. A woman waits for death and murmurs a name while a cynical man scoffs at love, contrasting memory and sorrow with quiet, unresolved passion.
A tiny lawyer reviews a widow's late husband’s will with a blush and a self serving smile. He flatters her about a rich legacy then ends up injured the next day. The verse plays on comic misjudgment and fate.
The article details fashion pads for spring such as liver pads matching skin tone and cut high in the neck for the fashionable trend. It describes diverse pads including over pads, kidney pads under coats, and novelty toothache pads with humorous, exaggerated features.
An advertisement extols Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as a universal throat and lung cure praised by physicians and clergy. It claims rapid relief for colds and life saving value for children, urging every home to keep it on hand. The piece closes with unrelated anecdotes and testimonial prompts.
A Carson social anecdote clashes with Cleveland relatives as a visitor, sent by a friend’s uncle, is met with sharp humor. The tale shifts to a scattered Iowa setting, noting Sheldahi and three counties, with a proposed change in county boundaries that keeps the village in play.
A veteran observer recalls Washington poker days when Congress was famed for gambling in Welcker's and other spots. He notes many players left the scene, some reforming, others aging, with a few rising to reverent roles, while street legends like Fernando Wood are said to rarely touch a card now.
A reader laments a scientist analyzing tears to reveal chemicals like phosphate of lime and salt. The piece criticizes the loss of poetry in tears and demands the return of emotions and money. Separately a claim notes Zora the wizard in Scranton, whose wife and male assistant stole his money and apparatus.
The New York Sun notes prominent Black Republicans like Senator Brace Frederick Douglass Milton Turner and Pinchback face limited aims and hard barriers. It argues party leaders cultivate Black votes but deny real power, citing Grant, Pinchback, and social snubs as evidence of entrenched prejudice.
The article outlines ancient Russia leather methods using willow or birch bark for tanning, alum and Brazil wood dyes for red hides, iron liquor for black leather, birch tar fragrance, and saffion mo roquin skins from bucks and goats. Processing includes lime, dung, bran, honey fermentation, brine salting, drying, cochineal red dye, alum finish, and somach tanning.
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