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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1892
Page
2
The Register reflects on marrying for beauty as like buying a painted house. It notes Whittier was color blind yet vivid in verse and urges measuring others by our own sins and judging virtues. It calls for humility and esteeming others better than ourselves.
An immigrant in steerage on an Atlantic steamer deposited $12,000 with the purser for safekeeping. He intends to come to this country and such migrants are welcomed when they present clean health and character credentials.
Panicky passengers aboard the Normannia, packed in a cholera plagued vessel, avoided infection as no one contracted the disease. The article notes that proximity to illness does not force illness on the exposed.
A satirical remark notes that many novelists struggle to write plays and fiction, arguing that bad plays fail despite capable actors, and laments that the same judgment cannot be extended to bad books.
The missing member of the Peary party was feared to have entered a glacier interior but is now thought to be possibly among Arctic natives, living off whale blubber. Judgments on which fate is kinder will vary.
The idea that man creates his own fate is expanded from a saying about being the creature of circumstances to being their architect. It argues character constructs an existence from material life, giving some power to shape grand palaces while others settle for hovels, warehouses, or villas.
Anarchist Bergman who attempted to kill Frick received a twenty two year term. He had set ten years as his maximum acceptable sentence and warned he would consider death by his own hand if given more. The court’s decision disappoints him and tests his resolve.
A powerful Mongolian padrone group in San Francisco is urging Chinese to defy a registration law, arguing it unconstitutional. The Six Companies, described as a slave-driving institution, commands thousands to resist U S laws, prompting calls for federal attention.
The North Greenland expedition is a complete success and adds to American Arctic glory. Lieutenant Peary earns praise for mapping Greenland interior relief and exploring hitherto unknown regions. He has found a new route to the North likely to stay open as others close.
Los Angeles and Southern California mourn the loss of ex mayor F. Spence a noted public figure. He actively served community life in agriculture horticulture and state politics and his death is described as a severe blow to the city he long called home.
In an age of big things Chicago plays a leading role as the Colosseum at Rome drew 0,000 people and the World’s Fair Board provided seating for 90,000 under the plan.
The roof of the manufacturers' building will support a crowd of over 100000, with 35,000 additional standing guests. More than two thousand people will sit on the platform, a chorus of 5000 voices will fill the hall, and 750 newspaper men will be seated in front of the platform.
A Kansas hangings scene describes a Black man who, after his execution, confessed guilt and proclaimed he would not reach Heaven but the other place. The officials who carried out the sentence showed unusual gentleness, deviating from the expected ceremonial response.
The Six Companies legal advisers in San Francisco push Chinese clients to challenge the U S registration law as possibly unconstitutional. They urge a test case promptly while noting Chinese trying to enter the West and cholera quarantine in the East. Uncle Sam should bolster coast defenses.
Report from the International Oriental Congress in London highlights Babylonian art predating Egyptian, ties between Chinese and Assyrian languages, and a Pharaoh different from Rameses II. It cites Moses' foster mother and Palestine landmarks described in the New Testament. Next year in Baltimore, Orientalists plan more revelations in gratitude for hospitality.
The piece extols American cartoonists for their bold, witty work. It contrasts unfettered American caricature with restrained German and English satire, praising the dash, merit, and pungency of U S. illustrators and their freedom from royal caricature limits.
Charles B Avery reports from the Bahamas that Watling's Island, Guanahani to locals, tied to San Salvador, faces famine after a year of failed rains. Fred A Ober confirms the claim. with 760 residents, sentiment urges relief as the Columbus celebration looms.
A Chicago correspondent notes that a reported Mars moon sighting by reflection in a small hand mirror was merely a glare from an unsilvered glass. Similar fancies arose with Jupiter, and Swift may have heard of a reflective image misread as a double moon.
A lyrical meditation on a vanished past describing a land of Used-to-be. The speaker recalls sunlit borders, musical memories, and fields of dreamlike beauty where childhood joys and forgotten loves linger. The poem pleads for a vanished era, cherishing its fragrances and melodies.
A Liverpool merchant loses £700 from his private safe after a thief copies the note numbers onto blank paper. Detective Bingley arrests Tom Hall but the narrator uncovers a deeper plot, linking Richardson to prior dishonesty and exposing the real culprit through bank-note numbers and betting slips. Hall is charged, Richardson convicted, and the money recovered with mercy shown to the family.
A narrative recalls Paris fire responses and a police rule forcing onlookers to form a line to bucket water from a courtyard pump. An amused observer watches a pompous entrant thwarted by authorities and carried away, illustrating strict policing during fires.
The piece describes St. John's Eve as an Old English idyll tied to Forerunner’s Feast. It retells a legend where a maiden at midnight hides a token until Christmas Day. if her love remains unfaded, the man who retrieves it will become her husband.
A grim exchange reveals a burglar warning about approaching a dwelling and a woman's screams. The speaker argues women disregard others and justify force, reflecting tense attitudes as a crime scene motif.
A noted entomologist in Atlantis Monthly discusses whether butterflies migrate north and south like birds. He cites large thistle swarms in 1879 and notes the milkweed butterfly Archippus as a prime candidate for seasonal movement, with evidence of southward autumn flocks and northward dispersal in spring.
In a rustic dialogue Jake Lab and his father Mr Babson discuss Bijah Jenkins, a famed tinkerer who fixed clocks and doors with odd items. The tale recounts how Bijah’s improvised toolkit included a broken clothes-pin, a hen’s feather, and a bottle of glue, yet he could accomplish many repairs.
A paraphrased quip from the New York Herald notes that Mr Newgrad laments college education hindering his ascent, while a cynical friend suggests not mentioning it to avoid discovery, reflecting attitudes toward credentials.
A man boasts of his independent mind yet when anger rises he enjoys giving someone a piece of it. The remark hints at a fiery temperament and a preference for blunt confrontation. No further names or concrete events are provided in the text.
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