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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1890
Page
2
A miscellany of items covers Freemasonry origins in 1658 Newport, Dutch arrivals, and fashion’s impact on nervous prostration. It notes brickmaking innovations in St Joseph, a London auction of Princess hair relic, Sioux Red Shirt chief, Indiana prisoners and life terms, Bible reading efforts, and shifts in religious aesthetics. It ends with a Salvation Army marriage quip and crime telegraph hysteria.
The piece reports on Ger Booths son Herbert wedding Capt Carrie Schock and Marshal Ballington Booth defending equality in Salvation Army service. It criticizes silent fire alarms in Cincinnati and recounts an Afro American tale of religious pride and a jail threat, reflecting varied urban concerns.
A fragmented list traces famed individuals from Christopher Columbus to Robert Burns, noting their fathers professions. The text includes garbled dialogue about an arrest, a question from an administrator, and a stray reference to Philadelphia dimes, all in a roughly historical or anecdotal style.
An Atlanta Constitution writer recalls a past life as a fruit tree agent. He describes training, a mix of persuasive hopes and hard lessons, and how he found legitimate firms with fair stock. He argues farmers should judge agents by business merit and avoid violence or suspicion.
A buyer wagers on a 40 cent basket of grapes to a graveyard owner who refuses any price. After the dispute over basket size and weight, the buyer concedes at 60 then 65, but the seller refuses all offers, and the buyer leaves in disappointment. A later scene shows a correction request directed at a Philadelphia Press editor over a mistaken arrest report.
A peculiar man with a yellow handbag and gags in one eye enters a lockup at the Central station asking the officer for the next train to Neo York and to place his luggage in the ae van. Capt. Dan Day directs him to Union Depot as the man insists on returning home.
A man identified as George Moyneaux, a French physician trained at Heidelberg, lies at County Hospital after years of morphine and cocaine use. Found near Halsted and Jackson, he carried deadly atropia and cocaine and endured severe withdrawal before doctors strapped him to his bed. The piece recounts his fall from a once thriving Paris practice and his dangerous self experiments with drugs.
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