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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1876
Page
1
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A poetic meditation on love as a day a year and a life ending in death. The speaker contrasts bright dawns noontide heat and dew with autumn gray skies and winter snow. It questions whether joy or sorrow outlasts love as it nears its final breath.
A fragmentary verse passage laments misfortune pursuing the speaker, imagining death as a path outside heaven where no welcome or kindness remains. The speaker pleads for companionship and a humane greeting, contrasting salvation with eternal loafing beyond celestial gates.
The Pandora has reached Upper Navi e Greenland beyond Cisco with no word from Captain Nares. It will push north to Smiths Sound where Nares is to file a full report. If he finds open polar seas, a rich country and timberlands may confirm the Symmatonia theory.
A jumble of comic antique math on Adam and Eve eating apples sparks rival calculations from Boston Journal Gloucester Advertiser Lawrence American Veritas and Wee York Mail. The piece parodies endless numeric theories by proposing wildly varying totals from 90 to 8,082,056.
Mrs Dorrance plans to host heiress Fannie Pynhurst inviting Florian Field under a matchmaking scheme. A mistaken meeting at the station leads to an awkward reveal that both families and lovers misread. Florian vows to marry for love, and the couple wed despite the ploy.
Spi cer interviews city merchants across multiple trades to gauge business outlooks. Oyster openings up, indigo blue sentiment, hats see strong interest, crockery seeks safety, distillers expect a spirited election, ready made clothing favors open stores but leans toward a close up, milk extensions continue, bakers seek a rise, hackmen report brisk season activity, paper and stationery trade steady, rubber dealers note plasticity and waterproof gutta percha, lead remains heavy, creditors report poor markets, shoe trade sees improvement, artists report easy progress, butchers contemplate new quarters and market slaughter concerns.
A Saint is humiliated by a policeman who informs a young man singing outside a house that the family has been absent for a week. The St. Louis Globe editor casually derides the Times editor as a creditless conscienceless dead beat and loafer.
A quotation asserts marriage as promotion and notes a man with his third wife might be seen as a Brigadier General in affectionate irony. The remark reflects social attitudes and humor surrounding marriage norms from the era.
A Cleveland Era editor reports that Ohio likely backed the Republicans by a small margin while Indiana went Democratic by a small margin. Ohio’s result is seen as a Democratic triumph and a sign of national change, despite strong Republican efforts and alleged abuses. The piece notes Hamilton county shifted, reflecting broader party fatigue and foreshadowing a November Democratic victory. Also included is a theatrical anecdote about Rose Hyingt e in Camille causing a disruption before Reno.
Buffalo papers discuss Prof Newberry's view that Ontario Erie and Huron formed in an ancient river valley that flowed to the St Lawrence. Glacial action carved Lake Erie, with a later continental sink allowing Atlantic waters to reach Lake Champlain and Ottawa. The piece notes Agassiz and debates whether America was first inhabited as a new world.
On the post office steps a man tells small boys that illegal powder in a horn is no cannon. He recalls the dent in the ground from a fall and his mother's leg, and a goat awaiting a New York surgeon to remove powder from its nose. The Radicals are gathering for a final treasury challenge.
A Council Bluffs report recalls the marriage of "Sandy" alias George Melville, famed for repeated escapes and frauds, to a young woman who visited his jail cell and urged the union before his Fort Madison imprisonment. The ceremony, performed by a Justice of the Peace, was witnessed by prisoners and a few locals through jail grates. The piece notes the gender double standard and ponders how a woman follows a criminal, while men rarely reciprocate when faced with disgrace.
Mary J Nevins of St Albans Mo is said to be LW years old last June and still strong enough to help with hay when needed The Pairfield Chronicle notes that three years ago D D Stewart gave her a $5 bill and promised to double it each year as long as she lives If she reaches 110 the total payments will reach 40480 with prior sums This prolonged life could bankrupt the United States
A prosecution witness in a murder case was asked if he saw the man shot and killed. He replied yes, then corrected that the charge hit the body between the hog pen and the wood house, not between the diaphragm and the duodenum.
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