24 Oct 1879
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1879
Page
1
The Register lists subscription costs and strict terms for payment and discontinuance. It details rates for one square ads, legal notices, and column widths with pricing for various time spans. It specifies advance payment for transient ads and payment on delivery for job work.
A playful verse tale follows a bachelor who learns romance by helping Nellie harvest garden peas. Nostalgic country imagery shows cottage life and gentle courtship as the narrator wonders about love and charm. Nellie’s garden becomes a metaphor for courting and devotion.
A sprawling, fragmentary OCR reads like a patchwork of 19th century items. It mentions the Duke of Wellington’s education at Angers France, a sly Quip about his French, a comic misadventure with a wasp, San Antonio Pexar woolen mill, Texas cotton factories, a man in Hampton North Carolina regaining sight after 50 years blindness, warning against arsenic in teeth, Madagascar queen’s emphasis on sobriety and education, Pompeii beaker humor, Florida Italian colonists planned, and a Jessamine County Kentucky map yielding five watermelons weighing 335 pounds.
An uncle recounts a past filled with jealousy and lost love. Hilton discovers his long awaited heir, Ada Willett, is actually his cousin and his daughter, with a reunion that heals old wounds and returns happiness to the family.
The Boston Commeral recounts a banker nicknamed Old Nails who forgives a note for a church member. The note turns out forged, causing town scandal yet the president quips the First Church would cover it if fake, otherwise it isn’t worth a dime.
An American writer observes China as a land of reversed outcomes and contraries. He amusements by imagining a lane where misfortunes and bold acts swap roles, noting riots, thefts, and accidents with swapped consequences.
A judge quips about a prisoner found guilty by a jury of his countrymen. Justice Manto notes the sentence of one day imprisonment was already served yesterday, and the rustic offender proceeds with his affairs. The exchange is noted as rare but not unprecedented.
A.B. Asbury, famed bishop, argued early Methodist itinerancy required celibacy to sustain church prosperity. He recalled losing 200 laborers to marriage and a Virginia circuit where two decrepit preachers were both wooed into matrimony, prompting him to fear women and the devil would capture his ministers.
A young local lawyer, noted for flashy rhetoric, asked the court to defer a case due to professional engagements in Suffolk. The presiding judge commented that with cases in all Commonwealth courts it is impossible to coordinate public business to suit him.
In a humorous exchange from DPunch Ivor Quiverful remarks on costs saying he never pays more than three pence for a cigar while noting his large family. Fred responds noting his own price at sixty shillings per hundred and jokes about providing for many children.
The piece extols silence as a grand virtue and praises the power to speak or stay silent as needed. It emphasizes restraint and discernment, noting that true mastery lies in knowing when to speak and when to remain quiet.
The Berlin society reports worldwide Jewry totals roughly six to seven million, with Europe housing about two million in Russia and Austria, Germany 612,000, Poland 1,012,000, and other regions showing smaller counts. Jerusalem lists 13,500 Jews among 7,000 Muslims and 5,400 Christians. in New York there are 50 synagogues.
The Oroville Mercury reports a diamond field in Butte County near Cherokee with gems found over 15 years totaling 375. Last week Grass Valley resident Prank Morse bought a rough diamond for 40 dollars. San Francisco experts valued it at 50 dollars and recommended cutting. A buyer offered 60 dollars but would not cover cutting costs. Morse sent the stone to New York for final work while it is returned to Mr. Howard for shipment. The paper suggests a larger deposit may exist and bets on profitable prospecting.
A historical tally reports lodges by country with Germany 342, Switzerland 33, Scotland 355, France 289, United States 9,894, Australia 229 and other regions. Total lodges near 15,000 and roughly 5,000,000 brethren, averaging over 335 per lodge.
Advancing years care and hereditary predisposition turn hair gray and cause shedding. Aviv's Hair Vicar restores faded or gray hair to brown or black, cleanses the scalp, cures dandruff and hiccoughs. It stimulates new growth where follicles are not destroyed and glands decayed. Harmless, dye-free, lasts long and keeps hair fresh without staining fabric. A. I. Frotayeot & Co., Agents.
The 50th anniversary of Belgian independence will be celebrated next year in Brussels with an industrial exhibition. An appropriation of 2,000,000 francs is allocated for preliminary expenses.
The planned national industrial exhibition in Moscow for 1880 has been postponed by one year due to widespread insecurity and the stagnation of Russian trade.
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