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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1870
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription prices for De Bearston at 200 per year in advance, 250 if delayed six months, or 300 if paid after a year. It details advertising rates by column width and duration, with double pricing for local column, and requires all ads and job-work to be prepaid.
Subscribers are presumed to wish to continue unless they notify otherwise. Publishers may send papers until charges are paid. Refusing to take papers or moving without notice makes subscribers responsible. Courts have ruled that leaving papers unclaimed is prima facie fraud.
A Columbus Crisis column argues that white men founded America and built its government and prosperity. It celebrates white achievements from discovery to the Constitution and criticizes proposed negro elevation and civil rights as dangerous to the republic.
The text highlights vast iron ore deposits in North Alabama covering about two hundred miles with ore under two dollars per ton, contrasting with higher furnace costs in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It notes inexhaustible coal nearby and asserts this mineral wealth will make the Elyton region an unrivaled manufacturing district.
Berlin reports 35 000 inhabitants from the land reserve called for service, about five percent of the population, with over 13 000 of their wives dependent on city support due to lack of means.
Wes Cameron, a man who never forgives injury, has long aimed to oust Cresswell from the Cabinet since Maryland’s Baltimore incident left him paralyzed. He vows to oppose Cresswell’s tenure and push for political action.
A well informed Gazette notes that Republicans secured sixteen congressional seats in Pennsylvania while Democrats claimed eighty, reflecting a split result in early American politics.
Willoughby Vane, a wealthy but idle bachelor, courted Eva through anonymous letters from the opposite house. After a lengthy exchange, Eva’s letter prompts him to reveal himself, but Captain Choker Black discovers the scheme and exposes Eva’s deception. The captain’s daughter proves to be another person, not Eva, and Willoughby flees to Montreal, Canada, ending the correspondence and severing ties with his prior life.
A elder admonishes a son to treat his aging mother with gentleness and respect. The message recalls her lifelong care through infancy illness and sleepless vigils, urging gratitude before she passes. It stresses that no future love will equal a mother’s devotion and warns against disrespectful words toward her memory.
The Fat Contributor notes Mr. Greeley’s success and suggests timely plowing. A correspondent asks for views on late plowing and recommends ending by ten or eleven o'clock at night to prevent horses from staying out late and to avoid undue exposure of the plow.
An Ohio gentleman urged reforms to free 15,000,000 American women from corsets and petticoats, claiming the task would exceed even building a Pacific railroad. He cites Radical papers as shameless, noting Atlanta New Era once named Grant and Akerman for president and vice president.
A clever fellow has manufactured handkerchiefs bearing a map of the seat of war in Europe. They have proved an immense success as people wish to glimpse the conflict scene without personal danger.
A newly noted historic remark attributes the Confederate loss at Chancellorsville to insufficient aggressiveness, countering earlier belief that the defeat resulted from the absence of colored troops among forces.
The passage notes five years of nitroglycerine use with 1700 deaths or injuries and vast property damage, calling these figures a stark recommendation of its efficiency and danger.
Sax Benjamin Holliday described as Montana's early stage man uses a personal car on journeys through Oregon which locals do not approve of. A separate Alabama item notes a woman in Montgomery with a natural curiosity in the shape of a headless figure, provoking pity and crude speculation about masculine intervention.
In Napa California a fifteen year old boy killed an Indian girl and was acquitted by the jury on the grounds of his minority. The case contrasts with a Chicago paper deeming the incident a flagrant fiction wedged between fact and rumor.
A Minnesota farmer reports a single tomato vine reaching three hundred and twenty feet with multiple branches, all bearing ripe fruit. The unusual plant highlights extraordinary growth and prolific yield observed on the farm this season.
The Charleston News profiles South Carolina’s next delegation, naming Rainey and DeLarge as mulatto incumbents and Elliott as a radical Black newcomer from Massachusetts, with Bowen and Wallace noted in contrast. It concludes the delegation will include two native mulattoes, one imported Black, and one white renegade.
The Camden Journal reports 3605 tax executions in Kershaw County affecting over one third of residents property. Darlington County lists 80000 acres for tax sale, Lancaster 9992 acres, Fairfield 45000 acres, and Williamsburg 86542 acres, each representing substantial county land areas under tax action.
An Elmira farmer sought Greeley’s advice on cultivating bananas near Elmira. He mailed his question and received a surprising reply suggesting he could catch bananas in Chemung county streams with the right bait, notably angle worms after being spit on, prompting a call to dispel widespread ignorance.
It is estimated that Boston and its vicinity consumed annually not less than 450000 barrels of lager and ale. A prior Legislature hindered its introduction but later liberal laws encouraged use, and now the people have become Teutonized in their drinking habits.
An irate minister seeking a raise faced a sharp reply from a member who said he preached for souls, not money. The minister retorted that he did preach for souls and could win many to faith if only he had the size of the audience’s purse.
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