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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1885
Page
1
In a quiet library a husband fears a concealed threat to his wife then gives chase through a stormy night. He confronts a bloodied intruder, saves him from a flood and learns the man is the wife’s fugitive brother, prompting a dawn revelation and reflection on his own restraint.
A young Weezy causes mischief at home burning fingers while stirring sauce and waking the baby. She climbs to a desk to reach a key, opens the desk, and cuts a deed into paper dolls, prompting her father’s grave reaction as the family laughs despite the mishap. The scene sits amid a second, sunbaked journal entry describing a devastating desert sandstorm in vivid imagery.
A poor aspiring editor wins the rich man's daughter with a blunt pact to marry. He confesses to the father his plan and asks for consent, arguing they can live on love and a modest income. The daughter agrees, and they marry despite his lack of money.
A San Francisco Chinese printing office is described as primitive with a bedstead press and lithograph stone. A Chinese editor translates from American papers, writing Chinese text by hand for printing. The room includes opium bunks, a ladder connecting editorial space, and domestic clutter. A hard life for journalists is noted with editors often taking other jobs if journalism fails.
A heavy squall on Lake Minnetonka sinks the small steam yacht Minnie Cook. Ten aboard perish, including relatives of Minneapolis financier Mr. Rand. Rescue crews and ten steamers search the lake as the vessel capsized near shore. Rand, born 1894 in Boston, became Minneapolis mayor for three terms and invested in oil and gas ventures before moving into banking.
A Louisville & Nashville line tale reports a negro family on the Decatur division schemed to sacrifice a child to force a railroad suit. The boy leapt away as the train neared, saving himself. investigators unveiled the plot and exposed the plan.
A prominent Austin citizen contemplates securing funds and confiding a plan to hide money in a law book after noting her son Tom attends University of Texas law lectures. An intimate friend suggests placing money inside a law book as a clever ruse amid student study lore.
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