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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1875
Page
2
The Register recounts Col Valentine Baker's repeated misconduct including a prior convictable offense in Ceylon and a court punished assault in an English railroad car. It also notes Mark Twain's money ventures and Artemus Ward's death timing, plus Don Juan Zulueta’s noble titles for Cuba influence and a country editor’s ox breaking quip.
Notice states Half Pay Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel Valentine Baker of the late Tenth Hussars has been removed from the army by His Majesty no longer requiring his services. Dated August 2, 1875.
A miscambled dispatch parodies public figures and quirky events. It mocks a Postmaster styled as Zachary Taylor’s grandson while noting a stamp theft joke. It also cites a six inch Holland boy Jean Hannema and a centennial spanking quip about a Delaware mother.
The Young King Alphonso of Spain has been defeated and will marry the eldest daughter of the Duke De Montpensier after the summer, despite Don Carlos’s opposition.
The article describes Robert Owen as a disciplined, observant reformer who rose from a draper’s assistant to Manchester mill manager and owner at New Lanark. It covers his creation in 1815 1816 of the Institution for the Formation of Character the first infant school and his cooperative program linking education with industry to raise working class skill conduct and welfare and to profit through mutual arrangements.
The article advises strict sanitary measures during August to avoid malaria in September and October. It urges drying earth to trap odors, ventilating and heating to prevent dampness, daily fires, sun and air, and avoiding spoiled food. It notes disinfectants like quicklime copper or acids, endorses simple diets, fresh fruit and vegetables, and regular baths and exercise to stay healthy. Source: N.Y. Tribune, August 20.
A Harper's Magazine excerpt discusses ancient drinking, modern alcoholism as a societal scourge, and cites a racist aside from a Washington interior department servant about a mulatto substitute, highlighting education of the race as a problem.
A collection of quips on social conduct and wit. A Western editor’s remark on a tailor’s bill, endorsed declined. The extra sleep from a mosquito canopy is not gain.
A Boston visit recounts walking the Common and garden sights, noting the Old Elm, Brewer fountain, statues in the Public Garden, and Ball’s Washington statue. The State House tour shows Webster and Sumner portraits, Doric Hall, and a cupola view. The writer hints at returning home soon with renewed winter energy.
Obituary notices report the deaths of James L. Wuartsoyx in Bethel township aged 70 approaching 71, William Stillwell near New Harmony aged 87, and Frederick Wilsey infant son of Frank C. and Emma Wilsey aged 11 months, all occurring September 1875.
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