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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1880
Page
3
Reminders for timely submissions and avoided trade dollars. Local remarks on Rev Heisler sermons in MiMinbure and Adamsburg. Ads for a private residence sale and school books. Hoop mania thrill and weather notes. Emigration plans, church cornerstone, and local personalities. Public notices for stockholders and life insurance. Bellefonte Morning News and court news. Episcopal convocation highlights and landlord commentary.
J A Grenoble moved into a new house last week and friends gathered Friday to level the new floor. Ed Henry Krumrine has improved his lots. Wm Pealer and wife of Penn Tall plan a Kansas trip. Mrs Kate Leitzell stocks fashionable millinery. Spring Athens Academy is progressing amid spring rains. Names like Grant Blaine Hancock Rivard and Tilden appear in local reminiscences.
A Chicago dispatch reports a violent cyclone near Taylorsville Illinois on Saturday night destroying many houses and barns. Several people are dead or seriously injured as the storm path extends into the Sangamon River area and northwest regions with further damage including cattle crops and livestock losses.
A Sun day night tornado leveled Licking Missouri except for three houses leaving about 300 homeless. One dead and seven wounded, with damage at fifty thousand dollars. Marshfield reports seventy one buried, about 150 seriously wounded, and total deaths near one hundred in Webster County along with one million in property losses.
A lyrical piece from Penn Hall dated April 14 1880 opens with hopeful verse about heavenly peace. The column reports scarcity of money and news in Aaronsburg, a failing church service, travels of locals, illnesses, a dog poisoning notice, and remarks on a hydrophobia death in Philadelphia. Also details a murder and a murderers’ execution schedule in Bradford and a Raber case clemency decision in Harrisburg with a May deadline.
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