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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1886
Page
1
A crowded column of business listings from Millheim Pennsylvania featuring J Springer Jno H Orvis M Bower Ellis L Orvis and firms Orvis Bower & Orvis Halgs & Reeder and others. It advertises deeds legal papers and modern work in shaving haircutting and cosmetic services plus offices on Main Street Allegheny Street and Woodings Building with references to nearby offices and judges Hoy Woodward PA.
At the Life-Saving Station near Pebbly Beach, Sam Williams guides winsome dialogue with Win Waters as lanterns glow and crests break. A night of watches, signals, and courage ends with Myrich’s misjudgment reversed and Williams promoted to acting keeper.
A collection of anecdotes about men hiding under beds and women confronting fears. Stories include a laird catching a hidden man after years, an elderly lady who calmed a would-be robber by reading aloud and praying, and a West Coast tale of a servant alarm that ends with the intruder exposed and punished.
A Washington letter recounts Gen. Butler’s expense items including a $400 “Banquet, Post Office St Charles Hotel” later explained as funds to fix a street. The hand organ and monkey item is justified as paying for a spy who wore musician’s clothes and gathered valuable information.
A large assortment of Sun day School cards Ester cards and Birthday cards has just been received at the Journal Store for shoppers seeking religious and celebratory greetings.
The article details the global flow of rags to the United States for paper making. It notes about 500000 bales yearly, each 400 to 1000 pounds, bound for shipping from seaports to mills. It highlights sources like Japan Calcutta Egypt Shanghai and mentions contamination concerns including dead babies and camel manure.
The city of New York covers 24 394 acres with 500 miles of public roads outside parks. In 1885 the city spent 1 100 000 dollars to clean streets and 75 000 dollars each year to remove snow and ice.
A Georgia tale recounts a lighthearted near tragedy near a town where a fourteen year old girl slept in a hammock beneath two oaks. A cow is driven by a gunshot, panics, and the girl is knocked unconscious but survives with minor injuries. The boy who fired vanishes, later reappears as a wealthy traveler who reunites with his family and weds the girl, now a respected local figure. The narrative ends noting the couple's long, stable life and the story as fact per the Americus Recorder.
An 18th century inn tale recounts George Washington attending a jumping match for a planter’s wife. Washington wins the long jump but, upon seeing the bride’s disappointment, offers his chance to another. Later, the wife tells her husband she met Washington before marriage and he confirms he once saw her at the jump.
The piece cites Confucius on women’s manageability and notes fears of marriage causing some Chinese girls to seek nunneries or death. Archdeacon Gray’s China study is referenced, recounting eight Canton-area fiancées who drowned themselves in 1878 to avoid arranged marriage, binding themselves together before leaping into a Canton river.
A father lectures a son on personal responsibility, rejecting excuses blaming surroundings or others for wrongdoings. He invokes Adam and Jeroboam to stress individual accountability, noting sins are chosen and borne by the doer. He warns against copying others and urges self-control in swearing drinking stealing and behavior.
An old advertisement urges mothers to order Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It claims instant relief for distressed sleep, dysentery, diarrhoea, wind colic, and teething pain, noting the syrup calms gums and energizes systems. Price is 26 cents a bottle.
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