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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1883
Page
1
Poem contrasts industrial progress with the shadow of the workingman and the impact of factories and locomotives on landscapes and society. The piece invites readers to view grand construction and railways as expressions of human labor while urging recognition of workers behind progress, credited to Eugene C. Fisk.
An unnamed narrator recalls a journey by a bare stagecoach and a post wagon, meeting a cultured driver who chats with birds and quotes poetry. The trip includes canal views in Holland with windmills, farm life, and vivid village scenes, plus a long digression on sacred books from many civilizations.
Mrs. Lucy BE. Sanford notes the subject is uniquely talented and well educated, having college experience and extensive European exposure. She emphasizes that no one can rival him in a match or challenge, citing visits with many distinguished men.
The article recalls a humorous mishap at the United States building where a visitor mistook a moving dummy for an officer. It then describes a whale hunt near Neah Bay with four canoes harpooning the beast, a lengthy struggle, and the village celebration that followed as drums and chants filled the shore.
A past theater tale reveals that spectacular leaps and cliff climbs were often performed by dummies rather than stars. A celebrated actor once used a circus rider double for a horse scene, risking a fall that left the rider hospitalized while the star persisted, drawing frantic applause.
A businessman claims a morning cup of hot water before breakfast cured his chronic dyspepsia. After three weeks the condition faded, weight increased by about thirty to forty pounds, and he remained well except for rare dinner-related discomfort. He learned the cure from a German doctor and passed it on with reported success in each case. Hartford Courant reported the account.
A concise meditation on life from birth to death tracing stages from helpless infant to old age. The narrator notes joys, mischief, growth, love, ambition, and eventual decline ending with the grave.
A collage of quips about a Soviet Indian wedding and pawnbrokers, notes on wood napkin rings draining Maine forests, a parlor joke about a bent-pin armchair, and a Pettis County mother of fifteen. Also: chatter about Ecuador’s five-minute government, hen versus cow profits, and pianist Von Kalkbrenner joking about noble lineage dating to the crusades.
The piece notes that lime-rich soil preserves corpses, while lime-free soil with other elements can keep features intact for years. It cites Washington, Wayne, Burns, Hampden, and Lord Nugent, detailing disinterments where bodies remained well preserved, though they later crumbled to dust after exposure.
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