New Harmony Register in New Harmony, Indiana

Odds and Ends and Oddities from 19th Century News

A collage of brief items: smallpox in Washington, shad scarce in Connecticut, social admonitions to be civil to the aged, Iowa State University’s 11 societies, the death of Femorus the French Banyum, shoddy blankets shipped to lava beds, Helmbold in Europe, pre Christ coins valued at 5200 to Saud, Dubuque girls jailed for stealing shade trees, a Provost Paradol’s daughter entering a convent, Bismarck born April 1 but not a fool, Chi Phi Philadelphia as oldest college order, Confederate headstones in Atlanta, Duluth’s ambitions, Butcher College female baseball club, Missouri winter wheat better, smoking cars on Third Ave NY, Dr Dio Lewis converting Winthrop House into a hospital, Dahomey king’s coffin in Birmingham, Prentice bust for Louisville City Hall, Victoria shunning society, Wawley retired from turf, Stokes relatives told to go hang, Albany hotel window leapers, Buffalo man tried for cruelty to a fish, Miller retired Modoc, Nanny Smith in Berlin, nine labeled Poison by a Western club, Gerard poverty, Dutch baker suicide in Allentown, Weatherford pastor mistaken for turkey, Boston Post buys Franklin birthplace site, rise of lady preachers, London theatre noon performances, Chicago drummers as Commercial Missionaries, East India Company near dissolution, potential tape worm under right shoulder blade, Koopmanchap on Chinese labor, April storms, President lacking a gun, Fargo Indian cemetery, new Georgia poet praised, Georgia hanged man Peterson’s fortune, bonded car locks commission in Washington, General Wood’s old hardware sign to be preserved, Desprelles estate in Paris, Iowa Falls prayers for newspaper men, Missouri woman’s quasi legal attachment over a baby.