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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1883
Page
4
The apple and peach crops across the West are reported very light, with the peach crop nearly a total failure and plums also scarce. The Rural World predicts next year may bring the decade’s large fruit harvest.
A survey of Pennsylvania coal fields shows enough anthracite to meet current demand of 30,000,000 tons per year for 300 years. The finding suggests the present generation will have ample heat and fuel without risk of a coal famine.
Dr Pasteur advocates airtight sewers ending in enclosed spaces beyond city limits with large chemical factories to process refuse. Ada Parker, nineteen, runs a cotton plantation near Monroe Louisiana supporting her family through labor. The Great Eastern, idle years, may be reused for coal trade between Queen's Ferry and the Thames.
A Belgravia note links the kingfisher to the wandering fly fisher in rural streams. It describes its emerald dash past an angler and dives through ice for prey, while a French legend and Noah’s dove myth explain its bright coloring. The piece ends noting locals relish old-world lore about the bird.
Reports describe a vast Sonora site four leagues southeast of Magdalena with a massive pyramid and a white gypsum mountain containing hundreds of square rooms carved from solid stone. Hieroglyphs show human forms with six toes and five fingered hands. fires left charcoal traces and stone implements abound.
A lecture describes lightning as a single electric phenomenon with several named forms. Heat lightning results from distant thunder showers, forked lightning branches near observers, chain lightning resembles a chains, and sheet lightning lights the sky broadly. Ball lightning is rare and poorly explained.
Selma Alabama reports over sixty artesian wells with unique water characteristics. no two sources are alike.
News from London reports Irish members called to order after a stormy session while Parliament debated immigration funding at £50,000. Across the world, reports include anti Jewish outbreaks in Russia, cholera deaths in Egypt, a Spanish royal visit, Hue bombardment by France, and rebuilding at Casamicciola after the earthquake.
London reports that French forces in Annam attacked on the 6th and drove Annamites from earthworks in confusion. Berlin word says American minister Sarjent may resign. Other notes include Irish question debate and foot-and-mouth disease carried to America from England.
The court martial in Col Iges case convicted him of duplicating pay accounts and recommended dismissal from the army. The acting comptroller authorized American National Bank of Nashville to begin business with 600000 dollars in capital. Grass seed tariff decision awaited by Treasury. Bond redemptions of 5 million dollars weekly on 22nd and subsequent Wednesdays. A counterfeit $5 gold piece with 4.63 dollars gold content shown to officials as top work. State Department notes Romanian duty free petroleum in transit via British port and Cuba landing restrictions removed for colored persons. Adjutant General Drum backs studying a national militia with state quotas and possible creation plans.
A Philadelphia Record correspondent praises a Metropolitan Museum of Art program introducing plumbing science as public benefaction. He argues skilled trades yield wealth, while many youths aim for clerical positions and avoid hands on labor, quoting a broker who regrets not becoming a machinist.
The Summer Solstices Parents offer a supposed sure cure for Summer Complaints in children citing Dr Worthington’s Cholera and Diarrhoea Medicine priced at 25 and 50 cents. Dr Oscar Lenz told the Munich geographical society dryness of the Western Sahara is recent and caused by clearing forests on the Ahaggar range.
A collage of patent medicines and household remedies touts Dr. Pierce products, Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir, and Brown's Iron Bitters with testimonials. It also notes patent devices, pest control tonics, and even a humorous jab at an intemperate Rochester resident, all in a period newspaper voice.
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