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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1879
Page
4
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a humorous encounter where a stranger pitches a salable anti heathen hymn to a policeman on Jefferson Avenue. The officer rebuffs the scheme while the singing salesman faces mounting persistence from workers and bystanders.
James H. Rice, Purchasing Agent of the U S Government, in St. Louis, disputes a post office clerk over a half dollar with a hole and a damaged nickel. The clerk explains government weighing costs, Rice demands sound coin, and walks away with two nickels after lodging a complaint about mutilated currency.
An American traveler watching Vesuvius in Naples is asked if there is a similar eruption in the New World. Jonathan quips that the United States would not have such a lava fountain but could extinguish it quickly with a mill dam in five minutes.
Henry Brown announces the permanent opening of Eights Store in New Harmony Indiana offering boys and children's clothing hats boots and shoes gentlemans furnishings and more at low prices. He invites inspection and a trial to prove better value than local competitors.
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