28 Apr 1881
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1881
Page
1
Poem reflecting on aging and the passing years as life’s blossoms fade. The speaker urges embracing love and gentle living, not wasting time with anger or harshness. Imagery of leaves, threads, breezes, and distant centuries reinforces the fleeting nature of youth.
Amelia Hartwell and her cousin Kitty are drawn into a flirtatious scheme as Amy, a seventeen year old, flirts with a self-styled English nobleman and a rumored fiancé. Kitty struggles with guilt while governess Miss Hess remains in the background. The planned late evening visit unfolds with secrecy as Amy prepares to host her admirer.
Amy, Kitty, and Dolph host a guests with a plan to steal silver and jewels after locking the young women in chairs. The deception unravels as Miss Hess frees them and a detective reveals the ruse by two English thieves posing as aristocrats.
The record lists 1880 export values for Coruana: wheat 288,037,009 dollars, beef and pork 127,943,242, cotton 212,000,000, gold and silver 80,000,000, tobacco and its manufactures 18,422,273, petroleum 36,208,625. A cryptic line notes a mattock making a deeper hole than lightning.
Three weeks of isolation end with the boy Lord at death's door after wandering forests for food, sleeping in a tree, surviving on berries and seal flesh, and clinging to hope on a distant shore. He spots a brig, then a ship approaches and rescuers reach him in minutes, restoring him to safety.
The article explains how Inuit builders select snow, cut blocks, and assemble a dome shaped igloo. Two workers speed the process with one cutting blocks and the other erecting walls. Women and children chink the interior and bank snow at the base for weatherproofing, while the bed and door arrangement determine warmth.
The Empress of Austria earns praise for fox hunting in Shrookshire England. She rode three days after a 1600 mile journey, over stone walls and water jumps, riding a famed light bay horse. Her endurance, style, and zeal surpass British equestrians as she travels with a large suite and up to eighty staff, training daily to maintain peak fitness.
Ex Governor Seymour urged plain speech saying short words aid clarity. He cited John F Knapp murder trial where graphic speech influenced jurors and noted William H Maynard used one syllable terms. He argued scholars misinterpret long foreign words and that brevity aids understanding.
State supreme court rulings clarify passenger rights and railroad duties including shipper passes liability, inadmissibility of certain damages evidence, platform riding rules, when a rider ceases to be a passenger, and the duty to warn workers from moving cars in depot yard operations.
A paper and fur dwelling exhibited at the Sydney International Exhibition attracted visitors as the interior featured paper mache furnishings from carpets to baths. Banquets used fully paper implements, including plates, knives, forks, and goblets, with the heating supplied by paper stoves raising fire insurance questions.
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