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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1885
Page
3
A city man seeks rural escape but finds love at a farm. Dolly, Helen, and Fred navigate past engagements and social assumptions. Lester plans marriage with Dolly, Dolly ends up with Fred, and Helen with Tam in a double wedding at the farmhouse, uniting the two families.
Dolly, a rosy cheeked country girl, frets that city folks look down on rural life. Helen Trevor arrives with her brother Lester and cousin Dolly notes the differences in appearance and personality. Fred Armstrong charms Helen as Dolly weighs marriage prospects.
In Onion Creek, Si Jackson, a colored granger, complains to his white neighbor Macbeth Simons about his mule. Jackson says he fed the mule daily last month despite poverty, and the mule died early yesterday while being harnessed for plowing, prompting Jackson to remark he might become a mule under such auspices.
Exchange between Brown and Black cited by the Boston Transcript. Brown apologizes for delaying a call and expresses partial embarrassment while Black responds graciously.
A spirited old column likens uric acid to a conquering king replacing malaria as the common ailment. It rails against medical quackery while praising Warner's Safe Cure as a blood purifier to expel the supposed uric acid demon from the body.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls a tombstone inscription in Cincinnatus New York praising Annie Chittenden and Christ, with dated social commentary. The snippet shifts to a humorous exchange about extremism on a train and ends with a Red Star Cough Cure advertisement promising cheap, morphia free relief and a cure for coughs at twenty five cents.
A collage of humorous anecdotes and farcical verse interspersed with medical ads and notices. It includes a tale of a son defending his father against a highwayman, a quip about a poet named Chester, and multiple merchant pitches for patent medicines and tonics. Also references an illustrated hotel advert and some government scale promotion.
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