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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1875
Page
3
The ad lists 18 carat gold rings plain and chased, collars and sleeve buttons, chains, guards, ladies buttons, and other jewelry items with warranties. Additional notices promote Thrall & Mumford's new goods, bacon, dyes and dye stuffs, and cheap soap making supplies. The piece also mentions various brief notes on politics and society.
By order of the Board of Trustees the subscription lists for the Working Men's Institute are placed with the appointed soliciting committee for collection. Donors are urged to promptly settle amounts to meet current work demands. C. B. Lichtenberg er, Secretary, November 4, 1875.
The walnut crop is largest this year as youth harvests. Lynn forms a thriving baseball club with G W Coleman and Robert Highman as leaders. A new Olive M. BE Church is planned near Solitude and the public highways chief enforces labor twelve days per man. A farmer loses his entire sheep flock to dogs. about fifty dogs turned in for assessment, with estimates of nine hundred dogs in town. The Court House progress is praised as beautiful. Daniel Miller of Solitude yields 108 bushels of corn from one acre on hill land. P D Wilson reports high quinine sales recently. The writer mocks Squires and notes good town health while wheat is reseeded after grasshopper damage. More anon. VIDETTE.
The Mississippi result shifts the House balance toward Democrats with Mississippi and Oregon producing enough votes to reach a 24 vote margin. The Mississippi delegation flips from five Republicans to one Democrat, yielding a net Democratic gain of eleven seats and a House majority near eighty four.
The brief line depicts Sergeant Bates walking the flags of London Ontario in a state of financial hardship and somber mood.
A Evansville Centennial Committee letter invites support for a three day Jubilee and Philadelphia centennial display. An 1875 note mentions New Orleans plans for a Southern States Agricultural and Mechanical Exhibition with freight concessions and a Mexico trade convention proposal. Indianapolis editor John Holliday weds Evelyn Rieman in a private ceremony. couple to reside at 248 North Pennsylvania Street with local congratulations from the State Sentinel.
Excerpts critique Grantism and inflation in the 1870s with editorial opinion from the New York Tribune. It also cites harsh local invective toward Eldora Ledger and a sensational jailhouse assault involving Mollie Antoinette Gillard, described with lurid contrast.
A SA 1A team attached to a wagon started for a run from the Furniture Factory last Tuesday. They stampeded along Church street to Main street then left and smashed through a couple of fence panels before stopping at the engine house. No injuries or major damage beyond a picket fence.
A historical note describes how Nelson, then a captain and ranked fifty third, was elevated to Admiral in a government-driven move. Fifty three admirals were named, with fifty two placed on half pay, elevating Trafalgar’s hero to active front duty. Also records a 1875 meeting of M E Sunday School teachers naming officers for the year including A H Fretageot and Louis Pelham.
Frontier troops seize a large assortment of male thieves and threaten to turn them on other thieves stealing from the government. The piece imagines a march on Washington to confront the enemy.
The New Harmony Register and Evansville Journal praise Thomas A. Hendricks as in strong health and the probable Democratic choice for president in 1876. The papers declare him politically revived despite claims of his demise.
At the High School Literary Society meeting last Tuesday the following were elected to read essays at the next public gathering on Tuesday evening November 23. Study of Nature by Mrs KE Barter, Success in Life by Miss L Fretageot, Advantages of a Good Education by Miss Nora Chadwick. All are invited to attend.
The Golden Dramatic Troupe staged The Two Orphans last Saturday as a complimentary benefit for Mrs. Bella Golden in Tuscola. A large audience attended. Mr and Mrs Golden plan to present The Two Orphans in New Harmony upon return.
The article notes the start of the pork season with about 100 hogs slaughtered at Eagle Mill last Wednesday, marking the season's first lot. It also mentions political humor about those calling the Democratic party a corpse being busy opposing it and records Mrs Hendrick Van Rensselaer’s 100th birthday celebration at Randolph in Cattaraugus County.
An editorial criticizes Mr. Grant for poor speech and perceived brain sterility while noting his rare extemporizing efforts. The piece also mentions the Working Men’s Institute addition, with brickwork nearing completion and a slate roof expected if the weather stays fine.
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