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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1870
Page
1
Harry Truscott surviving partner of the late firm of D. & H. Truscott calls all who hold claims or debts from 1869 to present to present or settle promptly with himself or Esquire Kilbinger to avoid extra costs.
This notices the Register pricing for columns and pages, deadlines, and policy, followed by a missive on newly married life. It argues for patience and mutual understanding in early marriage, warns against migratory husbands, and ends with a parable about an Alpine village facing a rock collapse and the need to heed warnings.
Mark Twain releases in the Buffalo Express his first war map with a self critical note about print orientation and artistic focus. The piece includes humorous reader endorsements and mock quotes from figures like U S Grant and Napoleon while lampooning maps and public interest in the day.
A protest movement by crafters who make patent hoods to shade horses from sun glare gathers attention. The group, nicknamed horse milliners, asserts protective gear improves equine welfare and performance. Officials have yet to respond with formal measures.
The piece contrasts the orator and the newspaper, noting the orator’s reach to hundreds while the newspaper speaks to millions. Printing preserves a dying orator’s words and gives them lasting life, letting the voice reach ages beyond the speaker.
Article in Herald of Health advises simple child care focusing on regular meals, daily baths, and outdoor play. Emphasizes gradual water temperature, open air time, varied foods, and avoiding overprotection to promote health and happiness.
The Shaster, or Hindoo Bible, forbids a wife to see dancing hear music wear jewels darken eyebrows eat dainty food sit at a window or view herself in a mirror during her husband’s absence. It allows him to divorce her if she has no son injures his property scolds him quarrels with another woman or presumes to eat before he finishes his meal.
The article describes natural moulds of Pompeii victims formed by ash and gas, later filled with plaster in 1863 to reproduce full figures. It highlights groups: a man, wife, and children, a man with gold and silver fixed to his ribs, a woman with a mirror and Cupid statue, and a dramatic trio of a Roman legionary with his daughters, all showing agony and suffocation amid the eruption cloud.
A compact collection of homely farm wisdom on experience kindness to stock shelter weed control and timely selling of grain. It echoes farming virtues, proper storage, planful entry into farming, and orderly tools. A joke about Eve and the first maid closes the reader glimpse into popular rural wit.
An African American preacher misreads verses and, with humorous cadence, explains faith grips like a hen in a bearmost. The speaker notes that a stubborn grip mirrors steadfast belief, clinging to the rock despite noisy gossip and imperfect punctuation.
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