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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1883
Page
3
A poor deformed girl enters a fashionable church with a gracious lady. The hymn moves her deeply as she imagines Heaven and asks if Jesus died for crooked ones. A year later she sleeps in peace, her features transformed and her spirit bright. Rev. Tt. H. Howard.
The piece examines Prince Metternich as he portrays himself in his autobiography. It contrasts public perception of his long rule in Austria with his claimed lack of vocation for public office and his insistence that duty guided a policy aimed at Europe’s welfare and peace.
A discussion of Ireland's color heritage and heraldic arms traces the belief in emerald green to facts from medieval times. It notes Richard II era Duke Robert de Vere with three crowns and a border, Edward IV heralds inquiries, and a British Museum drawing clarifying the three crowns in pale.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes shifts in flag colors from blue in early times to vivid modern tones. It recalls brick-red, white and olive-green a generation ago and contrasts that with today’s bright carmine red and emerald green seen over Rome’s Parliament and Piazza.
The piece portrays mountain communities resisting Revenue Bureau actions while showing moonshiners as nonpolitical in hatred of laws yet sometimes militant. It describes court weeks in Blue Ridge counties, scarce drunkenness, exchange of stories at court, and the ritual of drinking “mountain dew” amid rural life as depicted by the Atlanta Constitution.
A New York Graphic piece lists social offenses as items in need of polish by a hypothetical gentleman's school. It lampoons behavior on transit and in social settings, naming interrupters, overtalkers, improper seat savers, and loud talkers with humorous precision.
A French authority warns that in its native Lomé the Arabian horse is gradually deteriorating, losing speed and endurance as tribes fade and the care for pedigrees wanes. With peaceful times, horses are less valued for war, reducing their importance and preservation efforts.
Richard K. Fox owner of the Police Gazette is thirty five and earns two hundred thousand dollars a year. Ten years ago his wealth was ten dollars. The Tribune notes his work training American youth in vice is as valuable as railway wrecking and stock jobbing. Arkansas sandpits grows from eight hundred nineteen to twelve hundred within three years.
A detailed report on mackerel fishing from Cape Ann using purse seines. Vessels locate schools off George's Bank and in Dominion waters, deploying seine boats and dories to encircle fish. Forty seven barrels are cleaned and packed in two and a half hours as crew fillet, dress, rinse, grade, and salt the haul.
A reverend gentleman invites a lady and her husband to church noting their husband’s high interest loan business. The minister jokes about dedicating the church to the Lord despite a healthy mortgage, prompting the wife to question if divine support covers such finances.
An ad notes A W Nolte of Chicago promoting a new investment method involving a wall and large sums. A second offer promises two free bottles of Warner’s White Wine of Tar to any minister who orders two dozen bottles from his store. Other items praise Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier and advertise H B Bryant’s Chicago Business College with grand facilities and instructors.
A Buffalo police chief Thomas Curtin is hailed for guiding officers to arrest the notorious counterfeiter Tom Ballard atop a Buffalo house. The interview details Curtin's hard-hitting career and a health crisis cured by Warner's Safe Cure, illustrating the dangers faced by lawmen and a healer's endorsement from Dr. Gunn.
An advertisement touts A PURE strengthening tonic free from whisky and alcohol that cures dyspepsia and similar diseases and claims it has never been equaled. The snippet includes a line about urging a sleepy lodger to wake up and pay for lodging by a deacon.
Fashionable ladies seek a new wrinkle free look without forehead marks or visible hair, turning to Carboline as a touted great hair producer. The notice promotes a cosmetic remedy claiming to reshape appearance and boost confidence.
A compact ad touts Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners with bold urging phrases. It promises relief from crooked walking and hints at products for rodent and pest control while noting a price of 15 cents.
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