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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1890
Page
2
A scatter of eccentric notices from 19th century life including circus licenses priced oddly at 4200 to 1000 per day, a Cracaca man seeking marriage to a woman with a missing limb, endowments at Corxeny University, malpractice stay for Dr. McGoheean, and curious clock ideas with shells. Also mentions a Chicago society promoting physical culture, looming world crowding, and a trench of peculiar newspaper puns and local anecdotes.
A mishmash of anecdotes and commentary covers a picnic Oyster poisoning warnings with birth certificates proposed for oysters and a Turkish regret over a false Armenian arrest. The piece cites American diplomacy, a Mutual Beneficial Association for Italian fruit vendors, and reflections on Italian street life and myopia debates. It also notes lawn founts waning, baseball attire criticisms, and a playful skit on a broomstick myth.
A Massachusetts State Prison loafing room tale reveals two elderly inmates, both serving ten years, one claiming he killed his wife after forty years of provocation and the other admitting he killed a man for snoring. The curious case follows earlier notes on a stolen hand from a Portland, Maine, court.
A recent English lake sighting reports a pike of twenty nine pounds. It apparently died trying to swallow a nine pound fish. Pike fight and may swallow prey larger than themselves. Some suggest a pike can trap prey with its many teeth. The tale questions whether such events are veracity or accident.
An authenticated record describes a pike weighing two pounds swallowing a one pound trout. Shortly after, with the trout tail still in its throat, the pike seized an artificial ball measuring three and a half inches in length.
London Architect reports a five hour warehouse fire where brick walls and wooden floors used wooden story-posts twelve inches thick. Despite heavy water and fuel exposure, the pitch pine post remained largely sound and could still bear weight after seven hours, its center only warm to the touch, proving the core fibers withstood the fire.
A village barber loses business to a sympathetic tin peddler who tries to oblige a sick man by shaving a stranger, but is attacked for his method. The tale ends with the peddler vowing never to oblige again. A Blackwood tale recounts a Lady Clerk dream premonition that a fishing party drowns, sparing Lord Griffiths’s nephew, and notes a poker man not a railroad man.
A Brooklynite shares a century old New York directory find with a circle at a Hudson River hotel. Names tied to trades reveal a lineage of bakers, shoemakers, and merelints among New York’s elite, while the piece ponders aristocratic blue blood. A nearby mock dialogue then pivots to clever men and clever wives, ending with a dramatic quarrel and a vanished husband.
Historical patterns show weaker groups driven from homelands rarely relapse into barbarism. Instead they often build civilizations anew, from the Slaves and Barbarians to Puritans and Huguenots, creating notable centers of culture, art, and politics in exile.
Andrew D. A. White argues in Popular Science Monthly that even when bodies are forced into unfavorable climates and enduring harsh conditions, those enlightened minds not only recover their level of insight but continue to advance it, suggesting resilience and ongoing intellectual growth under hardship.
Residents recall a superstition tied to the building of the town’s oldest church. A wealthy pine owner refused to donate his prized tree, only to face a devastating nor’easter that toppled every pine, including the one needed for the church sill.
A newspaper item describes a spelling game with slips, defined words, and a prize for the best speller while a booby prize goes to the worst. It recounts players passing roles around the table and notes a superstition about parsley root ending in a death. The piece cites the New York Press and Washington Star as sources.
In the tale, a daughter recalls kindness in the city and rumors of a Newport cottage in Rhode Island, while a later note from New York describes a stencil method for large railway car lettering using brass netting and a short brush to apply thick white lead for longevity.
A fragmentary taste of a shop window debate on baby clothing notes crocheted jackets and sacks as appealing but advises against ribbons. The text shifts to a comic scene of a baby biting tassels and symptoms of coughing from misused material, then a curt exchange involving Rev Pownsend and a revival, mentioning $450 earned for three weeks.
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