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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1880
Page
1
A poem contrasts youth and aging, urging young men to seek roaming and vigor while promising a return to home and steadfast love in old age. The speaker calls for boot and horse and world travel, then counsels crops home and finding one cherished face in life’s later years.
In May the narrator anticipates a grand wedding and a June return home. A guardian’s letter reveals a forgery and a murder suicide by Evans, while Girard is cleared. Kate discovers the truth after the letter is burned, and her death follows, leaving Aunt as confidante and the narrator in lifelong remorse.
Delaware opens a beet sugar program with seven premiums totaling 400 dollars for crops over 16 tons per acre and seven smaller premiums for 4 to 16 tons. The Delaware Beet Sugar Company plans a 56 by 142 foot factory and contracts for 400 acres plus 114 owned by the company. Last year eleven farms grew beets with yields from 7 to 26 tons per acre and sugar per acre from 1,407 to 4,488 pounds. seven farms surpassed 2,400 pounds of sugar per acre and most crops ran over 10 percent sugar. Delays in gathering roots raise sugar percentage from 5 to almost 9 percent as October yields peak.
A humorous comparison likens the razor clam to people who vanish when pressed to help the community. The shell resembles a razor handle, and when grabbed, the creature slips back into the sand, leaving only an empty shell as sign of its essence.
Ancient burial cave network discovered in Assens shows rock-cut graves two metres long with flat inscribed heads, bones laid horizontally, and fittings including metal rivets and a bell-mouthed vase. Finds suggest Burgundian arrival in the Jura around 1,400 years ago, linking Assens and nearby Cheseaux as early settlements.
On an Erie road morning train a stout farmer remarks to a lone man sharing his seat that he is holding a major hog market tip and a million dollar opportunity. The man asks for details, but the farmer refuses to reveal the plan, leaving the other to ponder the fortune.
A Michigan couple, known as the Siamese Twins, live inseparably joining in daily life from church to woodwork and street walks. After a fierce quarrel a bystander asks why the wife pummels her husband but she replies they will die together as agreed after his first wife’s death, delaying their marriage by ten days.
On a calm moonlit night cowboys corral ponies and cook by a Santa Gertrudes bank. Ned Curtis recalls a fatal ride of Bill Hall a green rider killed by a wild mustang in Nueces county and the crew burying him under a live oak as they plan more rough riding tomorrow.
A reporter grills the Go-to-Blazes Railroad superintendent about a supposed recent wreck at Gimlet Falls Station. The official denies knowledge of any accident or Gimlet Falls, turning the inquiry into a dispute over jurisdiction and proof. The exchange ends with a moral line about finding the bright side in darkness.
A physician left 200000 for an Oxford library named after him. His wit and judgment aided his career. A quinsy case led to a hasty pudding cure when the doctor ordered the meal and the two men quarrelled, amusing the patient into recovery.
A crude journal extract traces a boastful drifter calling himself Colorado Jack detained for drunkenness and a chilling refusal to face police. It then shifts to Victorio, Apache leader, detailing a long pursuit across hot springs reservations, raids, and battles with U.S. cavalry amid pursuit across the border, with estimates of hundreds of killings and thousands of stolen horses.
The passage paints the London docks and riverfront markets with steamers eel boats and barges bringing shrimps flounders and eels. Porters and costermongers fill narrow lanes around the market which remains busy despite crowds and impassable hours. Drainage uses steam pumps to keep the lowest chamber dry.
Old Shockey, a wandering California preacher, bet $100 that Jonah was true. In Glenbrook he failed to find backers as the hat passed, a local listener quips the crowd would rather fund enthusiasm than beliefs, calling him a road agent.
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