Stop In at Our Dry Goods and Clothing House
Stop in at our dry goods and clothing house to inspect the newly arrived stock. By close buying and careful selection we offer a varied assortment for the season.
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1875
Page
1
Stop in at our dry goods and clothing house to inspect the newly arrived stock. By close buying and careful selection we offer a varied assortment for the season.
A brief classified-like line announcing cash purchases and a broad offer to supply dry goods clothing boots shoes hats and caps at greatly reduced rates. The note emphasizes ready money and wide product range without detailing brands or quantities.
The Fall and Winter 1875 pricing shows high values replaced by fourth class figures. First-class articles available at reduced rates, urging shoppers to buy now and stock up.
Readable text notes a sale of dress goods including Alpacas, Aferinos, Bombazines, and various cloths. It claims Muslins, Linens, Flannels, Prints and more are abundant at Liehhtenberger & Sons. The shop promises everything from a paper collar to a full suit with overcoats, and urges customers to buy any coat, vest, pants, or apparel there.
The store advertises low prices on broadcloths jeans doeskins imported cassimeres and various textiles plus notions collarettes belts corsets ties gloves lace edgings sashes hosiery and ruffs all in stock. A fresh fall delivery highlights a complete line of fall and winter overcoats.
Advertises a large range ofStaple Domestics and Standard Prints highlighting popular brands. Emphasizes affordability and stylish appeal to attract shoppers seeking value and trend in home textiles.
A fragment shows dry goods trade advertising low prices and superior inducements in boots and shoes with promise to fit all sizes and qualities. The piece ends with a reflective poem about fading beauty, love, and national memory.
In a witty reflection from the New York Star the speaker imagines Adam alone in Eden, enjoying a carefree, workless paradise until Eve arrives. He muses on private menageries, abundant fruits, and simple comforts, then notes the arrival of work, taxes, and even unions in a playful, antiquated tone. The piece blends humor with biblical allusion about bliss interrupted by labor and social change.
Sales pitch notes offer low priced cash on dry goods boots and shoes hats and caps at Lichtenberger and Sons with broad merchandise emphasis and shopper appeal.
The item notes picnic season wrap ups with playful lines about girls at picnics. It jokes about stocking holes and sprained ankles and pairs stockings with dancing, climbs, and fear of toads. It ends with a quip on minor improprieties and a Brunswicker sign-off.
A stark verse describes a heartbroken figure laid to rest in churchyard soil. It laments indifference from the living, condemns a villain's deceit, and ends with relief that the suffering heart is finally freed from pain. The poem centers on innocence, guilt, and quiet acceptance of death.
The passage notes Indian corn growing as a houseplant in North Germany and called tropical there, while in our country it gains tropical status only as Bour bon. It claims seasonal pleasures like ice cream and sauerkraut and mentions a term for an epizootic as influenza nasalis maligna.
A jumble of 19th century clippings recount drunken mischief by a Peter Dorr and a pun to masons, a streetcar tale, a dental office scam, and a wild tale of Pat the clergyman and an Irish wedding request. Other fragments mock spelling, travelers, and Punishments in Tibet, with brief notes on finances and Parisian walking grace.
The young King dismisses the current dark crime allegations as untrue and faces a possible call for investigation. No official actions are announced, keeping the royal stance cautious amid mounting rumors.
A jealous wife plots a dramatic ruse by feigning suicide to test her husband Josephus Clark. He ignores the peril, covers the well after neighbors gather, and then promptly proposes to marry Betsy Perkins. The plot collapses as she erupts in anger and the well is filled, ending with Clark winning a second marriage plan.
A seven year old asks about Beecher causing a kitchen to explode in rumors. The mother hushes up a plot involving the father accused of infidelity, the husband is found hidden behind the stove after a meal, and a new cook is hired while the doctor notes a kick from an off mule.
A old time admonition warns against swearing smoking gambling improper attire and church fame seeking. It urges charity to the poor and avoiding dangerous tools while quenching curiosity about science. It also jokes about Ben Franklin and thunder to illustrate caution.
A traveler in a coffee-house fabricates grand wonders and blurs places. He says they occurred somewhere in Europe Russia he thinks, while a gentleman presses for a precise origin. The banter ends with a playful dispute over where the feats supposedly occurred.
The Cincinnati Commercial argues against restrictive child footwear, noting five hundred women could not model perfect toes for Canova. It claims modern boots narrow the toes, stiffen the heel, hinder calf muscles, and distort posture, leading to unelastic steps. It contrasts Southern and Northern practices and calls for better shoe fitting and dealer responsiveness.
The Pennsylvania Gazette reports a change in the General Post Office from Philadelphia to New England. The winter mail will run once a week year round, reducing transit time to Boston and Philadelphia inquiries to about three weeks, versus the former six weeks. William Franklin signs as Comptroller, by command of the post master general.
The piece mocks reformist ministers and hypothetically presses Beecher under scrutiny, contrasting with a California docket that recounts a Justice of the Peace fining attorney George Work $50 and jailing him five days for contempt. It riffs on biblical figures and clerical authority with a satirical tone.
The recently issued guidance on table etiquette urges ensuring others are served first before beginning to eat. The rule aims to prevent distraction from helping others once one starts eating.
A reflective aphorism notes that distrust mirrors self view, while the pure see purity in others whereas the impure project impurity onto all. It warns against judging others by one’s own faults and urges self awareness.
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