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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1878
Page
1
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A protest verse laments wealth concentration and stalled distribution. It declares that free markets produce plenty but fail to share, and calls for law to grant equal rights to rich and poor and for a new system to begin. The poem links poverty to famine and urges sweeping reform.
An Iteno Gazette item reports a Reno Nevada wedding staged before Judge Richardson who questions the groom about citizenship and vows. The groom jokes about voting for Tilden, money bets, and the judge declares the couple joined while kissing the bride as the fee is paid.
The Seneca tribe performed a poignant rite at a maidens grave. They imprisoned a young bird, waited for its first song, then released it over the grave loaded with messages and affection. The belief was the bird would fly to the spirit land and deliver the burden to the loved and lost.
A pithy remark about portraitists precedes a morbid note: two African American girls in Early, Georgia, held a playmate under water for sport until she died.
Ida Halifont survives a deadly home invasion and widow’s sorrow, then risks love with Colonel Humphries. Years later she discovers the same red birth mark on his arm, realizing her fiancé was the killer of her husband. She confronts him, asking how he could pursue her.
Ida Valifont endures a chilling aftermath after Colonel Humphries abducts her with chloroform and murders her husband. She awakens bound in the great house, learns Humphries vanished, and carries the blood stained arm’s memory which haunts her forever.
In a Texas neighborhood a dance left babies swapped and dressed in new garments. Gallant youths watched the infants as mothers danced but the babies were exchanged by a few pranksters. The next day a row broke out as mothers discovered the sex changes and it took days to separate the babies and restore order.
The author of the Woman's Journal criticizes a fashion where hair is combed down over the forehead, calling it degrading and likening it to lunatic asylums. She argues the style makes young women appear idiotic and questions the motive behind adopting such a look.
In a Texas flood an elderly man became stranded on a sinking bank in Austin. He directed his son on higher ground to throw a rope and gave crucial instructions to let go if he could not hold on. The boy braced as the father pulled himself to safety, rooming the stout line.
To Capt John Walker, who died in Michigan recently, belonged the distinction of being the only person in the country who was called The man with the branded band. The Norristown Herald notes his notable nickname and death in Michigan.
The article traces ancient battle shouts from Froissart's Crecy scene to English St George, Irish farrah and clan cries, Spanish mat, French Montjoye St Denis, and modern naval three cheers, noting how cries served to terrify foes, rally troops, and mark friends from foes across eras.
The Department of Agriculture publishes experiments from a Georgia gentleman who claims tansey juice quickly cures botts in horses. He tested various remedies after a horse owner lost a fine horse to botts about thirty years ago. Sage tea failed, nitric acid did nothing, but bruised tansey with water killed bots in one minute. He reports repeated success with botts relief using tansey, salts, and timely administration.
A French visitor reports Corsica remains wild and isolated, with vendetta traditions intact. He says interior Corsicans are largely ignorant and lawless, governed by custom. He notes that a vendetta lasting a century claimed the last member of a family near Sartene a few months ago.
English papers hail a plan to ship American cheese to Britain next year at about three pence per pound retail. The New York World notes dairymen seek export despite thin profits at 6 to 8 cents a pound wholesale in New York, hoping for a 6 cents retail price after long freight.
A neighbor reports a woman who runs into a neighbor during thunder and who screams at each flash may fear fire at home. She allegedly bars the stove with kerosene from a gallon can as calmly as a doctor giving a soothing syrup to a baby.
In Carthage Illinois a breakfast mishap involving a hungry fly led to a quarrel between James Howard and his wife Symonds. The fly, tossed between plates, sparked anger and tears, prompting the wife to flee to her parents. The husband vowed to stay apart, and the couple separated, blamed on a single small creature.
A historic account explains Galvani’s discovery of animal electricity later named galvanism. It describes experiments on frogs, the role of accident and observation by his wife, and how触 the scientist demonstrated muscle contraction via metals and electricity, including atmospheric and artificial electricity.
A doctor studied 38 boys aged 9 to 15 and found 27 showed harmful effects from smoking. Circulation, digestion issues, heart palpitations, nasal bleeding, sleep disturbance, and mouth ulcers appeared, improving after tobacco cessation. Findings cited from the British Medical Journal.
Rural England lore holds that bread filled with quicksilver reveals submerged bodies. The 1767 Annoual Register reports a loaf that supposedly tacked and swam across a river, leading to the discovery of a body.
Writings argue that imperial actions by Russia and England in the past century were driven by religious aims. Russia fought Turkey to advance Christianity while England claimed the Cabul mission served science and religion, not strategic interests.
A Texas resident allegedly involved in a shooting duel pens a reflective poem about the event. Early reports suggest a potential misidentification of the person shot, creating ambiguity over who was struck and the duel's outcome.
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