22 Oct 1880
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1880
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription costs and payment terms for The RegisteR weekly paper, with annual rates and advance payment requirements. It lists advertising rates by column width and duration, emphasizes strict payment for discontinuations, and notes job work due on delivery.
Poem lyric about waiting for a beloved amid blossoming seas of flowers and singing birds. The speaker longs for reunion as a breeze carries sweet scents and butterflies flutter in a sunlit landscape. The scene centers on tender anticipation and natural beauty.
The passage honors the baby carriage as a home centerpiece symbolizing parenthood and future hope. It celebrates mother’s care and father’s dignity, imagining how a child shapes education, plans, and daily life, turning a house into a thriving home and a symbol of wealth in rosy hours.
A Boston manufactory aims to bone boneless codfish and later add shad products. Proponents say capturing rivers’ shad, removing bones, and returning fish to waters would be a greater religious achievement than building a ten million dollar cathedral, while preventing profane thoughts at breakfasts and reducing backsliding.
A picaresque anecdote recounts a man boasting of youth virtue while weaving practical jokes. He claims moral insight but reveals clever ruses, including a watermelon hook and a bent pine chair staged for a minister to inspect. The harmless prank underscores skepticism toward boastful claims.
A Spanish cavalier and artist attend a masquerade where a scarlet masked mountain maiden captivates him. He presumes to see her face but discovers an artificial nose. reveal shows her husband beside the clever old man, ending with a rueful exit.
Letters from users claim Kendall's Spavin Cure fully cured spavins and removed the swelling without blistering. They report success for various lameness in beasts and people, urging readers to try the liniment as the best remedy.
A club faces a sportsmanlike puzzle about a riddle told by Phil. The steward Atthe McDougal becomes the surprising answer after Phil struggles to find a solution. The story captures postprandial humor and classic wordplay among club members.
A ten year old boy named Johnny Stewart sits on City Hall steps and explains his father’s sharp schemes. He plans to ship himself C O D to Grass Lake from Detroit with help from the American Express Office, hoping to outfox his dad who left them in a strange town broke. The boy vows to outsmart his father in a county horse trade.
An advertisement extols Hall's Hair Renewer as a powerful restorative using vegetable ingredients to return gray hair to its original color. It claims scalp whitening, dandruff cure, reduced shedding, and nourished, glossy hair with long lasting effects and occasional use. Endorsed by medical men and Massachusetts state assay officials.
A brief note contrasts English as broad with the Finnish tongue’s closer ties to native usage. It discusses how authentic Finnish may reflect cultural nuance more sharply than English, suggesting language reflects heritage and daily life.
A Hungarian shanty in Fayette County Pennsylvania marks a rare trio of life events birth death and marriage occurring simultaneously within the community. The unusual convergence draws attention to local records and residents noting the intertwined cycles of life and migration.
A brief note advises practical steps to handle tight finances, urging readers to seek employment, budget, and explore affordable housing or community aid options amid economic strain. The guidance emphasizes practical action and local resources to alleviate money shortages.
A 1400 quarto copy of the earliest known periodical, printed by John Carolus of Strasbourg, is preserved in Heidel berg University. It issued weekly with two sheets and letters from Vienna Venice and Rome. Notable items include Galileo's telescope and Prague murder plots with bands of robbers.
An advertisement denounces quinine and arsenic as common but harmful remedies for ague and fever. It promotes Ayers Ague Cure as a safe vegetable alternative free of deleterious ingredients. The tonic claims lasting cures, liver and biliary benefits, and malaria prevention, endorsed by A. H. Fretageot & Co., agents.
The article traces cotton use from ancient India and Herodotus description as tree-wool to its late introduction in Egypt about 500 years BCE. It notes mummy wrappings were linen, cotton cloths arriving in London by 1590, likely via Moorish and Muslim traders who brought cultivation and making knowledge to Europe.
A woman keeps a small bureau drawer for delicate ribbons lace and keepsakes while a man stores a few utilitarian items in the largest drawer, yet cannot close it without protruding odds and ends. The passage contrasts female and male storage habits with humor.
Three young boys are halted on a Sabbath day by an elderly man who, spotting bats and balls, asks where mischievous boys go to play on Sunday. The boy answers, “Over back of Johnson's dam,” and the encounter ends.
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