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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1875
Page
4
A Boston Globe correspondent recalls Sunset Cox’s speaking gesture in vivid detail. He notes Cox removes his eye glasses, strides along the aisle, and punctuates sentences with a rapid right hand motion. The observer likens Cox’s finger action to a young chicken pecking at a foe.
A man recounts a tangled family joke where marrying a widow creates a chain that makes him his own grandfather. The humorous confusion centers on stepfamily terms and generations collapsing into a single marriage.
Several converts were baptized at Grand River Baptist Church on a windy Sunday though one boy fled the scene fearing cold water and final judgment. The column also recalls a Hamlet actor’s quip about red ink, notes on a laboring mechanic, an Ohio woman’s quilt collateral, and a Pope’s cardinal witnesses from 1870s context.
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