R. Geo. L. Lee Office Near Public School
An address note locating R. Geo. L. Lee’s office opposite the Public School House.
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1885
Page
1
An address note locating R. Geo. L. Lee’s office opposite the Public School House.
Property listing notes a central hotel site at the corner of Main and Jay Streets in Lock Haven Pennsylvania. The readable fragment emphasizes location in the city’s core.
A period ad describes rooms in central Philadelphia near 6th Street south of Chestnut and Walnut Street Theatre. It promotes remodeled, newly furnished accommodations on the American and European plans with daily rates from 50 cents to 3 dollars per day. Owner and proprietor is W Paine, M. D.
A 19th century tale follows Frances De Harte, seized by a deceiving sea captain, years of hardship in New England, widowhood, and a hopeful reunion with her Demeraran father. She endures betrayal, labor, and sorrow, then returns to Demerara to revisit memories under the ancestral oak, restoring family bonds and preserving a family relic.
In this Texas Siftings excerpt Mrs. Muller, the town’s stoutest woman, is mocked for her size and sensitivity. Dr Blister is praised as popular though rumored to have a small practice. Frank Cooper jokes about absent Frenk and Mrs Miller’s vanity fuels gossip.
A French physician writes a lengthy letter praising the benefits of groaning and crying. He recounts a man whose pulse fell from 125 to 60 within hours after expressing his emotions.
An Allegheny man chopping wood was struck on the chin by a wood fragment, nearly severing his tongue. The incident serves as a caution about the danger of sticking out the tongue while working.
A veteran traveling salesman for a leading diamond house recounts a perilous twelve year career spanning America and Europe. He describes carrying up to 200000 dollars in diamonds, specialized vest pockets, and two Colt pistols for protection while detailing a tense attempt by a would be thief on a Denver to Chicago route.
Describes gypsy wedding rites with broomstick path and taking bride across. Notes feasting after marriage, wandering lifestyle, and gypsy trades supplying food and clothing. Mentions matron’s earnings, respect for fortune telling, and death as they move to resting places in forests or heath.
A historical law example explains formal wording for an orange transfer. The verbose clause aims to grant all rights and title to the fruit including rind juice pulp and pips with full power to bite eat or give away as fully as the grantor could.
A visiting young lady asks Aunt Polly if she ever longs to leave the common life and its duties. Aunt Polly defends her butter as valuable, then admits a rare longing for baked potatoes when prices rise. The exchange reveals rural humor and practical contentment amid market pressures.
A small flea measuring one sixteenth of an inch can leap a distance of pah inches, about 320 times its length. The common grey rabbit clears about nine feet on level ground. In proportion a horse would need to jump 64 feet to match a rabbit’s reach, noting the rabbit’s exceptional hindquarter muscles.
Some teachers of penmanship now teach pupils to write with both hands. The method has students first write their name in pencil then trace over it with a pen in the left hand. Repeated practice leads to proficiency.
An advertisement urges readers troubled by dizziness and loss of appetite to take Dr Henry Baxters Mandrake Bitters. It promises improvement and warrants every bottle to give satisfaction.
A flagstaff in Mount Vernon Washington Territory stands 146 feet high and is claimed to be among the longest unsplit spars in the United States.
A young lady objects to smoking because it leaves a very unpleasant taste about the moustache, a whimsical complaint highlighting social concerns with tobacco etiquette.
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