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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1872
Page
1
A German hotel misleads an English couple who mistook a private residence for a hotel, then meet Prince Radzievill who clears the confusion. In a second vignette, a beggar teaches a man to value time, urging youths not to waste boyhood years and to reform early for future success.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin lists new items and jokes from its tireless punster. Entries include book titles Ebenezer Divorced and Castile and Arragon, a note on Gilmore testimonial funds, and quips about firemen, Switzerland, and a variety of puns.
A satirical piece envisions a future president sharply opposed to corruption, promising honesty, restraint on taxes, and a steady foreign policy. It mocks political myths with lines about replacing paper money with coins and a stoic cabinet free of slug characters. A village poet laments a grim twist of fate in a verse about resting in a shawl next to a widow.
Attendants recalled a witty tale of a beautiful young lady at a Methodist Conference who inspired four ministers to seek marriage, prompting the presiding elder to halt the spree with a blunt remark about divine intent. The piece ends with a brisk non sequitur about the younger Alexandre Dumas amassing wealth in Paris.
An October Overland dispatch details river swirls on the Colorado during high water. A bubble forms, then a funnel shaped hole appears as a 40 foot surface circle spins. A deserter crew member jumped, the boat sank, and the river is said not to yield its dead.
The article offers a playful guide to making bubble solution using boiled water Castile soap glycerine and a bottle. It describes dissolving soap, settling impurities, adding glycerine, and curing the mixture. It notes that a glass pipe yields better bubbles and that more glycerine strengthens bubbles for playful battles.
The best remedy for ivy poisoning is sweet spirits of niter. Bathe the affected skin freely three or four times a day and next morning the poison leaves little trace. If blisters are broken and niter penetrates the cuticle one application suffices. Spirits of niter is made by dissolving nitrous ether in alcohol.
Rochester Union and Advertiser portrays Jacob A Meade Postmaster of Mt Morris admitting he disposed of mail as a joke. He authored a fictitious letter under E G Grimes to Col Wisner, then claimed it as a gag amid campaign humor. Citizens view the incident as misconduct by a civil service official.
Seth Green receives a New Hamburg, Hudson resident Mr. Van Wyck note about bass on a reef feeding on young shad. He baited with torn tin foil shining like shad, and bass struck instantly, yielding several fine specimens. The method may help others lure bass elsewhere, Finchester NY Union.
The passage rails at Sumner leaving the Radical party and calls allies rebels and traitors while praising Liberal alignments. It criticizes Butler Morton Cameron and others, questions trust in major figures like Greeley Sumner Trumbull Schurz and others, and urges readers to go slow amid a sweeping political shift. It notes Russia tax exemptions to grow cotton in its southern provinces.
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