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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1874
Page
4
The excerpt lampoons hotels and landlords, contrasting poor inns with ideal stays. It describes shabby rooms with broken furniture, scarce amenities, and pushy service, echoing humor about travel life and the writer’s disdain for overbearing proprietors. It ends with a wish for better hotels. June era.
Fragmentary lines describe wheeled travel across a country with humorous, rustic imagery. The speaker laments shortages and sparseness, using playful contrasts to evoke a period voice and local color.
A wife sobs as her husband reads a letter she opened by mistake. The note proves to be a printer's bill for a nine year subscription, described in chaste language yet causing heartache over the contents. The scene unfolds with emphasis on the social embarrassment of a wife reading her spouse's correspondence.
A fragmentary column notes scolding as an easily formed habit and a contagious family pattern. It also includes brief humor about terminology in Ohio and a statistic on Kansas railroad property value rising to 14,725,929 with a prior year of 9,676,318. Murmured odds and assorted items conclude the clippings.
An 19th century notice urges farmers in Tasey County to hedge fence creditably due to rail timber shortages. B F Hockman of Olney, Ill. advertises hedge fencing at seventy five cents per rod, with plants, tools, and payment split into three installments. J R Moore is named as general agent guiding contracts and agents travel in the region.
Hugo and Ferguson offer furniture making and repair, framing, and trimming with a guarantee of satisfaction. They advertise a large stock of seasoned lumber, undertaker services, and a forthcoming hearse. Coffins and orders are attended to promptly at their Church Street shop beside Union Hall.
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