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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1875
Page
1
W FP Gray announces studio rooms above Ed M Schnee's store at 224 One door south of Postoffice featuring large sky and side lights. He offers photographs melainotypes gems porcelains large family portraits framed and restored old pictures copied enlarged. Children’s pictures by bright days 9 am to 3 pm. Mour good gems for one dollar.
J W Davis & Co offer 300000 feet of lumber sawed and delivered from their furniture factory with about 40000 feet of choice dry lumber also for sale. They solicit all kinds of carpenter work and mill work including ceiling flooring weather-boarding finishing lumber bracket and scroll work with stair work to be undertaken promptly at reasonable rates.
The notice sets subscription terms tenable at 150 dollars yearly or 2 dollars monthly delays. It enforces strict payment, discontinues after arrears, and treats failure to notify as new engagement. Advertising rates listed by column size, duration, and volume with advance payment required for transients and job work on delivery.
A speaker praises a woman’s alluring eyes Grecian nose and captivating attire claiming her parti colored hose thrill in a dance. He concedes the boast is only talk for now as she has not yet had the chance to prove it.
A Boston reminiscence recalls Samuel Brown merchant owner of Brown's wharf who refused to bond a sale to the city for South Boston land. Mayor Quincy claimed the deal at $30,000 with only the promise as bond, and Brown insisted his word was his bond, finally yielding the land to the city for $30,000.
A Western village clerk sparked a humorous mix up by declaring Pocahontas a man then a woman, admitting he had not read the Bible and expressing disbelief at gendered readings. The exchange highlights local humor and cultural assumptions in a lighthearted moment.
A comical moral tale describes a youth who vows to quit drinking and chewing tobacco if his sweetheart marries him. Within a year of marriage he confesses he sold himself for fifty cents, and she claims she paid twenty five percent too much for him.
A man recalls his feared mother-in-law Mrs Gardiner who becomes a loving guardian during his ill state after cotton speculation failure. She nurses him back to health, helps arrange a homecoming, and ultimately moves to share the couple’s life, revealing a deep bond beyond initial misgivings.
Mrs. B. returned home to a frightening backyard scene with a child wielding a mock gun, two neighbor boys behind bushes, and a burning dry-ops box. The boy, wearing his father’s moccasin slippers, chased the painted “Injuns” and threatened vengeance after reading an Indian story, then calmed amid the scene.
A watering place correspondent recounts a charming exchange between a beautiful young lady and her young escort as they stroll. The couple pretends each evening will be lovely, the man unsure how to reply while the sunset water glows, prompting a bemused observer to wonder about beauty and dialogue.
The article notes the cremated remains of Lady Dilke weighing six pounds and provides statistics about the moralist or moralizer figure referenced, reflecting a blend of obituary style detail and social commentary.
In Portsmouth a wool buyer steals a heavy white oak cheese. Grocer Mr Sheaf pretends ignorance and gives change, then tests weight. The thief insists, pays for dishonesty, taking the entire cheese at forty four cents a pound, equal to wool price.
The Boston Globe recounts a minister settling in a forgotten area who visits a village cemetery. A parishioner shows graves of his children and finally points to a corner with flowers, saying there lies “the old woman, all blowed out.”
A Washington correspondent reports that a government official, after examining pension claims, believes at least one fourth are based on false or fraudulent grounds. The wrongly expended amount is estimated near eight million dollars per year, with rapid, detailed scrutiny planned.
The quote explores heroism as resisting doubt about self image. It contrasts proving oneself foolish with the wiser choice to act rightly. It discusses when to question beliefs and when to follow guidance in pursuit of true virtue and prudent leadership.
Sage Nebraska reports twelve million trees planted in the prior year. The note adds a curious claim that four horse-thieves can be hung on each tree, a figure likely rhetorical or misprint but presented as a fact in the item.
A Lancaster youth sent one dollar to a New York firm advertising a dream preventing receipt. He got a small slip printed Do not go to sleep. A Colorado woman beats a basa drum for a brass band at Sonatina Adit.
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