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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1882
Page
1
A poem fragment reflects on lost faith and deferred hope. It contrasts seeking a divine God with a mother’s question about Love who endures. The speaker notes Faith and Hope faltering, yet suggests Love holds the future, urging clinging to Love for a distant shore.
A rustic summer evening on a river invites reflections of two lovers Nettie Bay and Philip Randolph. Amid family woes a duel past divides their fathers, yet love reunites them as a blessing follows, sealing their betrothal and a hopeful family life. Peggy recalls a neighborly widow Nancy Vincent’s feud with Silas Harris over a marriage plot.
The library at Abbotsford measures fifty by thirty feet and features a grand bay window with a view of the Tweed. It houses twenty thousand volumes along with a study, with cases built under Sir Walter Scott’s direction. The room displays portraits and busts, relics from Rob Roy to Napoleon, and gifts from Popes and kings.
The article explains Moslem expectations of the Mehdi as a future reformer or fighter who will prepare for Jesus Christ. It details birthplace myths, Persian beliefs of the Hidden Imam, sacred Samarra imagery, and clerical views on the Mehdi’s coming in the year 1300. It notes a dual expectation across Islamic branches and a universal anticipation of dramatic upheaval.
The excerpt reflects on patience as a second bravery, noting that stumbling twice on the same stone marks folly in a Spanish proverb. It contrasts perseverance with repeated errors and underscores personal resolve.
A Gravesend Bay fishing boat brings in a mixed haul from the harbor with crabs, jellies, sharks, sturgeon and file fish. The skipper explains fish origin, value, and uses from shad to cod, noting prices, processing, and oil production while describing phosphorescent schools at sea.
The article argues urban homes stay cooler in summer than farmhouses. It recommends oil stoves to reduce heat from cooking and suggests using separate cooking buildings or roofed stoves near streams for laundry and ironing. It notes revived pioneer practices to keep homes cool and odors down.
A discussion of suicide by personal choice notes Paris precautions after a Belgian merchant notified intent to kill himself in Paris. It contrasts English crisis reports with French measures, mentions Vendome Column access limits and historical attempts, and ends with a quip on farming and clover rotation.
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