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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1889
Page
3
A Georgia courthouse anecdote recalls a 10 dollar fee earned after Gabe Turner, a church deacon, was acquitted of assault. The lawyer’s tale shows courtroom drama, speech bets, and a backroom bargain, ending with Gabe paying debts and the narrator’s vanity in the memory.
Three after dinner stories in Boston highlighted extraordinary willpower. A bedridden English officer rose after a doctor warned him he would never walk again, only to die after proving the warning true. A West sheriff, mortally wounded, killed his assailant then himself. A pursuing officer, mortally shot, returned fire through a railroad car, dying after a final shootout.
The piece contrasts how rich and poor women shop, noting clothing can mislead. It argues the wealthy buyer often shows greater anxiety to obtain value, while attire does not reliably reveal wealth during market visits.
An Osford Globe article describes how readers at street bulletin boards form a cross section of society. A old man records world events, a well dressed man picks papers, cab drivers follow bulletins for news, and horse car passengers strain to read before the ride. Notable events like yacht races and elections draw crowds, turning everyone into bulletin devotees.
Two Ani Indian priests visiting Washington paused a theater scene showing a topless chorus girl. They found her beauty compelling yet provocative and turned their backs, exchanging whispers about the performer’s attire and propriety. The incident at a midsummer show illustrates their strict morals.
A dramatic exchange from New York Weekly features a heated claim that a man aims to break up a home and would be killed for a cause, followed by a cynical plan to act secretly in Chicago. The dialogue contrasts vigilant emotion with wary restraint in a modern city context.
A humorous dialogue on geography shows a pupil asking how the earth is divided and receiving a punchline about railroad corporations and real estate boomers, as recorded by the Arcola Record.
A Chicago Inter Ocean reminiscence recalls a regimental pay whistler who lifted spirits during mud marches and after battles. His tunes soothed blue and gray alike, even as a bridge collapse at Bridgeport caused chaos and death among prisoners and guards. The whistle’s final doleful melody honored the dead as survivors boarded the train.
Mr Moneybage trembles as a brawny visitor claims to be Bill Skaggs from Maine days. The man recalls old friendship, asks to stay a week, and presses Moneybage about forgotten years and his relief at reuniting in New York.
A passerby surrendered his umbrella to a stranger who claimed it as theft as he fled. The man later recalled stealing the umbrella in New Orleans a year earlier, realizing the incident’s irony in a Detroit scene.
An elderly man grills a young man about income, joking that the youth is courting rather than flirting. A statistical note counts last year’s shipbuilding: 765 vessels totaling 17,000 tons with Great Britain at 484 and the United States at 73. A Brooklyn husband nicknames his wife Phonograph for repeating his words, while a guinea hen’s ruckus is noted alongside a remark on axle grease as a sign of diligence.
In Milan a cabinet-maker courted one of two identical twin sisters from a family of weavers. He wooed both without knowing it. When the mother gathered the sisters and asked him to reveal which daughter he sought, he found himself unable to distinguish them. He asked for time to decide which to wed.
A fragmented 19th century style piece promotes Hostutter’s Stomach Bitters as essential for digestion and vigor, linking stomach health to energy, appetite, and resilience. It also includes a long anecdote about a sportsman and a corrective nod from a servant named Cudjo.
A column parodies domestic woes and medical ads noting women sufferings and Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy. It cites a Arkansas homicide acquittal over a panther boldness, Florence Alabama rail excursion plans, 1700s hat fashion shifts, and a Dobbins' Electric Soap plug alongside light humor and fashion notes.
A farmer and clerk debate buying fabric and sugar for a wife and house, trimming twelve yards to save costs. A casual note follows about Dr. Diethold reporting tar and turpentine vapors dissolving throat tissues in croup and diphtheria, per the French Academy of Medicine.
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