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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1873
Page
3
Fragments describe Thrall & Mumford’s sale items including coffee five pounds at low prices, Cape Cod Cranberries, pistachio and jaw breakers, raisins and prunes, sugar and buckwheat flour. Notes officials cleaning ice houses for harvest and other local odds and ends with light political and regional chatter.
Judge Mason criticizes the last Congress for repealing franking with little discrimination. He urges restoring free postage within counties for newspapers and exchanges to aid local press, warning representatives against opposing repeal. The piece also notes wartime rumors over Spain and Cuba and ridicules national feebleness with a fish diet metaphor.
The Harmony Town ship Teachers Institute minutes recount the November 22 1873 session with classes in reading analysis mental arithmetic and spelling. Present teachers included Hattie Robson Emma Ferguson Nettie Bennett Mary Cole C W Mills G W Cartwright and others with adjournment set for December 20 1873 and notes on attendance and future assignments.
Evansville Journal backs pacific settlement while other papers demand strong action to punish Spain and secure Cuba. Mentions Boss Tweed conviction and a Florida floral guide promotion as side notes. Texas votes next Tuesday to back Democratic candidates. Mrs Clem’s winter trial begins next month.
Oliver Optic’s Magazine closes the year with Money Maker and A Stout Heart finishing, plus Miss Douglas’s Seven Daughters and The Merry Christmas of the Old Woman. Other features include wax-work lessons, Hooty Baldtop, Homeless poem, and a new year opener The Coming War. Woon’s Housekeeping offers varied pieces and price options. Young Fours’ Rural praised. sample numbers and terms listed for Wood's Household Magazine.
At the Indianapolis session officers for the Grand Lodge were installed for the year including Richard Owen as R W Grand Master and D B Shheicher as R W D G Master. Also named were R F Foster as R W G Secretary and T P Haughey as R W G Treasurer with several wardens chaplains and heralds listed alongside.
C W Mills principal lists students who showed no absences or tardies during the week. Names include Alice Nelton Fannie Fretageot Lillie Mus bands Effie Cole Lillie Ferguson Charles Sib ley Dalton Althouse Martha Burton Harry Husbands Willie Holton Eunice Williams Nora Rawlings Annie Freeman Annie Breith Ella Ferguson Kate Franzman Mollie Neal Allie Ford Ella Duclos Dillie Fretageot Ellen Sutton Phil Ford John Armstrong Eddie Mathias Louisa Shepard Fred James Gus Mathias Lena Hugo Frank Dinger Homer Shepard Amelia Heenan John Cawthorn Mary Kimmerling Demna Sutton Mary Arnoldy Stella Baldwin Julia Bennett James White.
Public notice states a local dealer sells cheap and good furniture and will manufacture to order at low rates. The shop keeps coffins of all descriptions and a hearse is always ready for use. Orders for carpenter work left at the store receive prompt attention. nov22 is
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