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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1880
Page
1
A collection of maxims on manners virtue and social behavior. It urges open counsel kindness cheerfulness and restraint as keys to happiness and true friendship. The piece emphasizes the danger of obstinacy pride and gossip and praises temperance and unselfish acts.
A poem portrays a perilous night journey of a steam engine and its wary crew. The speaker pleads for restraint and discipline guiding the machine by a guiding inner light while resisting wild impulses and fate. An allegory of youthful restlessness and pursuit of safety through control.
In early Cleveland, a young mixed heritage woman warns trader John Morton and allies of a planned Indian raid on Morton's store. Heavily armed villagers deter the attack with a staged display, saving lives. the woman is given a home, marries Morton, and becomes an ancestor to descendants still in Cleveland.
OCR reports relics of extraordinary preservation and feats. It cites tombs opened from 1301 to 1779 where bodies remained nearly perfect after centuries, plus legends of legendary athletes like Milo, Scanderberg, and Maximinus, and modern feats of strength by Windship and others.
Six live individuals of the macacus gelunda, native to Abyssinia highlands, are shown at Alexandra Palace. Details describe pink chest patches that redden when excited, long tufted tails, and sexual dimorphism with teats. They feed on Indian corn and grass, sleep in caves, and in London in a large box with the old male guard.
The father of Eugene Sue, a physician, stored elite wines in a cupboard in his Elzevir library. Eugene, then a college Freshman, with Adolphe Adam and Veron, repeatedly sampled bottles using water to replace the contents. They later admitted the brands were moonshine after the father’s death.
A bold woman consoles Mary Slawson recalling personal losses to her family. She boasts of her own dented teeth and hair loss while listing misfortunes: daughter Sarah, son Henry, Jane’s husband, John’s leg. The other passenger offers only polite sympathy as the exchange ends.
In Detroit a man named Smith visited a justice to promise quitting drinking tobacco and swearing for marriage. After failing to fulfill new vows, he refused further changes. Separately, two friends Jarboe and Roberts woke from a coma believing they were each other, exchanging roles and identities. They toured mining camps in Nevada, confusing families who met them.
A Saxony archive fragment recounts how King Frederick William of Prussia acquired 600 dragoons from King August II of Poland in exchange for porcelain vases. The transfer created the porcelain regiment later linked to First Dragoons and Cuirassier regiments. The dragoons were valued at twenty thalers each, totaling 12 000 thalers, with the exchanged porcelain deemed more valuable.
In Bodie Colorado a man named John Jarboe, actually George Roberts, is presented as a startling living freak of nature. The tale traces their closely linked histories from western Illinois to Denver and Utah, sharing youth, service in the Civil War, and a near fatal log cabin collapse that begins to uncover a strange dual identity.
A man arrives by ferry in Detroit and asks a citizen how his wife would react if he came home looking as he does. The citizen’s blunt reply asks if the wife is sane, then warns the man to wait ten hours before returning home, noting the visible effects of his three day intoxication. The tale ends with the stranger planning to pass the time away.
A San Francisco District Court examiner tests a student for admission with a witty quizzing session. The dialogue covers motives, fees, clients, costs, and the ethics of inviting the examiner to drink, ending with the judge promising to sign the certificate.
A Detroit grocer shows off a patent money drawer when his clerk instantly resigns then reconsiders. The clerk explains he lost confidence in the till not the honesty, arguing less change to squander would free his time. He then returns to duty.
A disheveled stranger among Detroit citizens interrupts a hog story to declare his intent to reform. He argues no one will pity him but vows to stay sober and run his own grocery, ending with a defiant resolve to prove his worth.
The Austrian Parliament considers a two section line from Innsbruck to Landeck and Landeck to Bludenz, with a major tunnel at St Antione. The plan aims to shorten routes between Western Austria and Eastern Switzerland, reduce reliance on South German railways, and boost bread goods competition with Russia via Genoa and Gothard. The total cost runs to over 18 million florins for the two stretches, with completion anticipated within four years of start and a preference for easy gradients and double-tracked lines.
The piece contrasts Norway’s sparse rail network and leisurely pace with the Dutch system. It notes Norway’s vast, sparsely populated terrain makes profitable railways unlikely, argues travel speeds are limited to about four miles per hour, and suggests Norwegians value unhurried journeys over rapid transit.
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