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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1876
Page
1
The page presents a late 19th century local newspaper section with advertising rates, a humorous personal vignette about a failed life, a piece arguing to suppress slang, a short tale of a lady and a soldier, a humorous dialogue on slang enforcement, and a political column warning of overtaxation and praising Democratic economy. It includes "The Egotist" anecdote, and "Facts for the People" promoting economy under a Democratic administration.
Poem fragment speaks of a speaker sending a tender message to a beloved through wind waves and seas. Imagery centers on music of the sea, echoes in a cave, and waters’ shells as carriers of affection.
The verse tells Johnnie Ray to saddle the mare and ride swiftly to Kirby's Corner and past Robeson's quarter to learn who marries Handsome Will’s daughters. If Jem wins the favor, they celebrate. else bring the rope to hang me, and ride home slowly.
A humorous verse from The Oshkosh Times urges subscribers to pay promptly for the local newspaper. It mocks delays and encourages payment in cash or silver, asking readers to avoid letting the paper run on credit and to subscribe for future issues.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt portrays a Black man leaving the post office with a letter when a barber shop youth taunts him about an expected bank check. The man explains checks precede the slips, asserting patience and experience over the boy’s snide questions.
A persuasive appeal urges young men and women to demand purity and sobriety in courtship and marriage. The piece argues that virtuous women suffer when men pursue vice and calls for reform to ensure equality of virtue, urging readers to act for a moral renewal across the community.
A compact moral verse attributed to Robert Dodsley extols a true woman as careful in work, temperate and humble, neatly dressed and well fed with virtue. Decency governs speech, prudence guides steps, and charity restrains gossip, with silence as a shield against scandal.
An unfortunate friend quits taking quinine in whisky after realizing it was setting him against whisky. He declares he will not have his taste ruined and will “shake” the country first.
A fragment from a 19th century page mixes political invective against reform and corruption with light social dialogue about marriage and vanity. It also includes a humorous exchange on flattery and aging, and closes with an anecdote about a collector pinning specimens to build a personal museum of life experiences.
A woman parades in a century old costume challenging her husband’s authority while he replies meekly. She asks if he wishes she wore that style always and he quips he wishes she had lived in that era. The dialogue reveals tensions over roles and fashion.
The article argues that sleeping on the right side aids stomach contents by gravity, while left side alignment resembles drawing water from a well. Back sleeping after a heavy meal risks a blocked vein and disturbed sleep. It warns that waking from frightful dreams may follow, and death can occur from late meals if one falls asleep after overeating. It advocates a light final meal and regular three meals daily, citing Hall's Journal.
A dusty reminiscence recalls Uncle Sol Licklider living forty years on Jake's prairie and recovering a missing ox-yoke after it wedged in a tree during a freshet. He recounts climbing the tree to fetch the yoke, only to lose the bow pin and bow again in a humorous hardship. Then a sharp social note about Mrs. Daniel Goldschmidt's arrival and observations of her bust, critiqued for overstatement by Custom-house authorities, ending with a veiled jab at social scrutiny.
In a playful Alabama note from Wetumpka Nee Year, readers wonder who Helen Blazes is as boys and a man react with exclamations of sudden pain on the sidewalk. The column treats the curiosity with local humor about a phrase spotted in daily life.
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