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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1878
Page
1
A serialized tale recalls a boyhood fear of ghosts, a miller’s daughter, and a night of suspense at an old mill. A light in the window sparks a moonlit investigation ending in a rescue and a wedding, with a local legend about a haunted mill explained.
A New York Sun verse explores a woman's features with vivid detail including yellow hair and a seven shoe size. The speaker wonders how he would fare if a relationship faltered and she grew angry, framed as a poetic riddle about desire and risk.
A fragment quotes a dreaming speaker who says in sleep they will take another dollar’s worth of chips, implying a desire or plan tied to a gambling or chip-buying act. The line presents a surreal, suggestive moment about money and appetite in a nocturnal confessional.
A humorous verse about a pie seller who fails to attract customers until he discovers advertising. The tale highlights how clever marketing boosts trade and fills his coffers. The rhythm and irony reflect a bygone booster-local tone.
A maiden asks Peter for free entry to Heaven at the gate. He questions her claim, she pleads to be sixteen. The aged gatekeeper declares that sixteen is the age when every girl is an angel and grants entry.
A collection of short, tongue in cheek epithets from readers, pairing terms like Sweetheart Revenge, Delay, and Fact with the target's relation or role. Fragmentary lines reference a young Oil Citizen, a married man, and a South End man, capturing local readers’ playful labels across papers.
A lawyer in the Billings murder case in New Troy New York spoke twenty hours, pausing only as the jury grew nervous. A stranger at the Springfield armory grounds asks if it is the alms house, leading to a witty reply about a fire arms house. A boy jokes on gender of egg, and a Burke county Georgia sweetheart ends engagement after naming her calf. A 14 pound Bible slips from the pulpit desk during a sermon as a preacher prays.
In 1753 New Place near Stratford on Avon passed to Rev Francis Gastrell who in 1756 ordered Shakespeare’s mulberry tree cut down. Watchmaker Thomas Sharp later claimed most of the tree, forged as original, was sold and used to make toys and other articles after hiring John Luchman to move the timber to Sharp’s premises and swore an oath that no other wood was used.
A Cincinnati Times-quotes child muses on future life choosing between teaching, school or having a baby. The item then shifts to English funeral disturbances as a Methodist laborer's wife is barred from a churchyard in Grimatone Leicestershire causing local anger and ritualist rector backlash.
A garbled OCR fragment recounts a tale of Czar Nicholas restoring Russia’s death penalty. A youth allegedly hanged who survived when the rope broke, prompting a boast about mercy and a demand to return to work. The text is incomplete and error-filled.
In Japan near the Ikoin temple dwells an elderly healer known as the demon Baba who casts out evil spirits and cures illnesses during epidemics. Another centenarian, Oshakababa, reportedly swells in size when aiding, claims Shaka is in her stomach and uses her mouth to answer questions and reveal origins of sickness and the dead. Visitors from all ranks seek her aid.
A beautiful Parisienne, wife of an imperialist leader, confesses a passionate love for Gambetta in a letter she leaves on her table, provoking discovery by her husband. The sensational note compares Gambetta’s looks to Mirabeau and hints at political implications.
A fragment shows a character attempting a flirtatious line about eyes and fruit canning, but the response halts the exchange and refuses the task. The closing tone hints at domestic chatter and early-era manners.
The authorities of Guadaloupe in the West Indies announce a 100,000 franc prize for an inventor of a process to obtain over 14 percent sugar from sugar cane. Competition runs until June 30, 1880.
A quip attributed to an old bachelor laments that despite any breakage the women’s decorative ceramics pasted on remain attached. The remark colorfully suggests lingering social pressures and domestic aesthetics persist beyond disruption.
A late night doorbell in Edinburgh is mocked as a minor legal shun and a two shilling fine. The quip calls Scots slow on jokes, reflecting urban humor and social order.
A Herald report describes Mise Mollie Fasner who has lived fourteen years withou nourishment. The frail, beautiful creature longs for death but cannot die,according to the account.
A sharp proverb notes that while some say one can judge character by a man’s ears, attempting it risks revealing your own character as the other man measures you by his boots. The wry line echoes class and wit in a bygone era.
A fragment records a divine exhortation urging children to obey their parents. The speaker references moral authority and labels the youths as subjects of devout instruction, highlighting a tension between commanded obedience and moral consequence.
A compositor on an agricultural paper created a piece called The Perforating Power of Rooma in sympathy with his feelings. The next day the article appeared under the title The Perforating Power of Boots, reflecting a shift in headline.
A facetious attorney asks if he must provide a free legal opinion in a case with no personal stake. The judge responds mildly, urging the opinion be given for what it is worth. The exchange highlights tensions over gratuitous legal aid in court proceedings.
A Frenchman has invented a field piece that can fire seven times per second and is simple enough for a child to understand how it works. The weapon would be deadly, and the inventor’s reward for it is noted, with a wary nod to the era’s arms race.
An Englishman boasts to an American about a supposed beak in the British museum once owned by Cicero. The American retorts with a dismissive joke about the museum’s relics and a Noah’s Ark anecdote, highlighting playful misinformation.
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