04 Aug 1881
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1881
Page
1
A lyrical reflection on vast desolation and lonely travel along seaboard borders. The speaker notes endless miles of land and sea, peaceful wonder, and a traveler’s deep earthbound thoughts drowned by the sea's vast reach and the land's green marshes.
A brakeman on the Eastern Michigan Railway recalls poverty and devotion to his waitress wife Kate. After surviving a deadly wreck, they marry and build a modest life, hoping he can someday visit her mother in the East while facing harsh financial limits. A news agent mentions an elderly woman being put off at Stumpville as new railroad rules loom.
A brakeman on the Rensselaer & Saratoga Line recalls a late night deed that saved his wife Polly and their baby during a fierce snow storm. He confronted his drinking past, sought redemption, and vowed never to touch liquor again after guiding Polly and child from danger and facing a transformed future.
An elderly man laments missed glory and delay from war. He recalls jail, lawsuits, and police interruptions while recounting his failed enlistment. The piece shifts to George Johnson, a notorious boy loved by locals for mischief and pranks across Hackensack to the Hudson, in comic vignettes of a town and its spirited youth.
In Detroit on a warm evening a couple strolls by an ice cream saloon. They joke about cooling off until a reader reports a line about a “germ of smallpox” in ice cream, prompting a sudden end to the outing and a tense quip on not going out again with the partner.
Seventy acres in Butler county near Bakerstown allegedly belongs to no claimant. Richard and Mrs Gibson owned it since 1836 and died childless. An estate with no heirs may pass to the State after seven years. $758 was found among Mrs Gibson’s belongings. Locals seek heirs while lawyers press the Attorney General to claim the lot.
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