26 Nov 1880
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1880
Page
1
The Register outlines subscription terms payment deadlines and notice rules. It lists advertising rates by column size including full quarter half and whole column options with monthly and yearly terms. It specifies payment in advance for transient ads and that job work is paid on delivery.
The speaker recalls wooing a girl who remains a perpetual child in his verse. He vows to love the little girl as she grows from maidenhood to old age, asserting that even death cannot end his enchanted view of her as forever young.
Widow Rollins and sister Debby debate hosting Thanksgiving as Emily reminisces about Joe Ashton, a long‑absent suitor now injured and returning. Joe recovers at the Rollins house, revealing past rumors and Kate Sawyer’s schemes. Emily forgives Joe, and he plans to marry her at Thanksgiving, while Kate faces social backlash and the Rollins face poverty and changing fortunes in the village.
A reflective piece on how a newspaper balances telegraph reports jokes selections and notices to satisfy readers. It argues responses vary with each publishing choice and notes the strain between enterprise and public expectations.
A Marseilles theatre incident during 2d Dame de Montsoreau saw actor playing Chicot briefly injure a fellow performer in a staged fight. The piece notes such accidents are rare given the realistic combat, with anecdotes about Booth and a London actor who warned or warned back as they fenced.
A late writer recalls Empress Eugenie crying Fatal palace as destiny for royals who faced exile and execution. It notes Marie Antoinette met the guillotine, Josephine and others endured exile or flight, and many royals shared the palace’s grim fate.
In a Paris area cemetery a lamp burned over a grave for years. An inscription, translated into Hoglish, credits Pierre Victor Fournier as inventor of the Everlasting Lamp. It notes the lamp consumes one centime of oil per hour and that his widow keeps the business on Rue aux Trois supplying goods across the city.
A man collapsed on the sidewalk and was taken to hospital after a lightning strike. The incident shuts down access as authorities investigate the event and its injuries.
A circus anecdote describes a performer being twisted and tossed by an elephant seen as having an astonishing number of muscles. The tale conveys astonishment at the animal’s strength as the man is thrown along the length of the tent and into a lemonade tub near the candy stand.
A fragmented item notes complaints about too many laws and a burglar claiming too many rules to break, followed by a Springfield Ohio scene where a soap eating contest yielded a $5 prize. It mentions a lengthier feat and a physician related to poison, with garbled OCR details.
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