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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1884
Page
1
The poem celebrates birds of spring as brave cheerful messengers amid lingering winter. It likens their prudence, patience, and care to tender humanity as they build nests, forage from dawn to dusk, and sing through frost and rain toward a hopeful May.
A nostalgic verse contrasts sunny, joyful days with winter gloom. The speaker urges resilience and cheerful resolve when storms arrive, urging the heart to rise above adversity despite dreary skies. The irregular stanzas repeat the idea that laughter comes easy in bright weather.
A child speaks to the Moon and Wind in a sleepy garden. She wonders about baby stars, clover, prayers, and the coming age, while family sounds and daily rhythms frame a tranquil, late afternoon hush. The piece blends longing with gentle bedtime imagery.
An elderly veteran recalls April 19 1775 from his youth and service with Lincoln’s farmer. He describes alarm bells, marching troops, and civilians rallying to defend Concord, the fighting near Lexington, and his own wounds and rescue on the retreat toward Charlestown. The tale ends with his return to duty at Cambridge and pride in the nation gained.
A roundup of colorful California tales: ostrich farm cackling heard miles away, Black Bart robberies totaling over twenty stages with his doggerel notes on rifled boxes, and the vast Olio basin flood damage from heavy rain.
A Chicago man once promising and energetic loses fortune by reckless speculation then turns to drink. The piece warns young men to temper Vim with caution, work steadily, and accept prudent restraint rather than chase fast wealth.
The account recalls John Meigs son of General Meigs who commanded without generals present at Bull Run and was wounded in the knee. It also tells of Edward Eddie Lee, a drummer boy of the First Iowa, whose feet were shot off at Wilsons Creek, later captured and died after amputation.
In the Tombs police court Justice Power frets as four children face judgment. Three girls admit they seldom attend school. a fourth is accused of bone collecting. The court discharges her and sends the others to a reformatory to study.
The article explains winter feeding for horses and colts. Idle teams need limited grain, lightly worked horses require a little noon grain, and heavy work horses need a few quarts of ground oats and corn daily plus good hay. Emphasizes careful care of young colts for future usefulness and favors linseed oil cake as a remedy for costiveness in young animals.
General Sheridan credits a Quaker schoolgirl Rebecca Wright for crucial Winchester intelligence. A coded tissue note carried by a darky helped reveal Kershaw’s detachment enabling the Union assault. Wright later married Bonsal and earned a treasury position with a pension claim.
New York correspondent recalls Cornelia Clinch a beauty of sixty years ago and her romance with A. T. Stewart. He, poor but diligent, won her after her wealthy father approved softly. They married and lived simply in a cottage on Reade Street in an apparently happy union.
A humorous exchange follows a man fined yesterday for being drunk and disorderly as he defends a repeat offense. The judge quips about double jeopardy while the crowd recalls a thunder storm joke. A student and a Vasser College girl dialogue humorously shifts to a kitchen sponge science sketch.
A master railroad mechanic cites over 10 million iron wheels in use on American rails and 525 pounds of pig iron per wheel. About 1.25 million wheels wear out yearly, with 290,000 tons of material supplied by old wheels. Wheel life has shortened due to standard gauge and faster loading, and non iron wheels of paper are now used on certain grades.
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