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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1882
Page
5
Poem fragment laments weariness as seasons change from spring to summer. Imagery centers on May, hawthorn, woodbine, moonlit evenings, sunbright mornings, and a lingering sense of fatigue as life ebbs away. Refrains of waiting recur throughout.
Bertie Worthington quarrels with Cordelia over summer plans then falls for West Row farmer Reuben Carlyn. Caleb helps arrange a romantic match, revealing Reuben is from West Row and Bertie’s future home is a West Row farm, not Brighton. Cordelia’s snobbery is shown to fail as Bertie finds true happiness with her chosen partner.
Archer the famous jockey will marry before Christmas to a daughter of trainer John Dawson in Newmarket. He is building a red brick residence with stone dressings, gardens, stables, hot-houses, conservatory, and an enormous mastiff, plus a private Turkish bath to maintain light weight. He has invested in solid securities.
An article details a Chinese lending custom called an oney where six participants pool funds up to $200. The originator receives $100 over time by bidding premiums. members repay $20 monthly. The process cycles with only certain bidders each month, and mispaid sums risk the originator. Women reportedly form owneys as well.
A man traveling by rail woos a quiet young woman by claiming a resemblance to his wife’s sister. He asks her name. she replies not James but Zifor Copper. He jokes about brass, then rushes to the smoking car after dropping a bird cage in the awkward exchange.
The emperor's dog Mylord, a favorite and constant companion on campaigns, has died of old age at Princess Dolgoronky's hotel in Pau. He is buried in General Gaillard's villa garden, with a white marble tablet planned over the grave.
A century ago in Connecticut a slave named Sambo and local families kept Thanksgiving as sacred. Beans, baked salt pork, and rye bread centered Saturday meals. legends mention porridge on the crane and a wartime oven discovery leading to a statewide bean supper custom across the Union.
Davin recounts a Winnipeg Regina lecture story about Sir John A McDonald in Quebec. At the St Louis Hotel he greeted cabman Jim McCullough now old and poor, shook hands, asked about Biddy and the children, then moved on amid cheers to visit the Governor General and the Princess Louise.
The article traces bread’s journey from Greek and Phoenician origins to Gaul, noting early raw grains, porridge, pounding, hand mills, and the wind mill after the first crusade. It describes unleavened bread, the use of fermenting agents, yeast from beer, and a 19th century ban on beer yeast later lifted with sourcing limits.
The article traces harp seals as they migrate annually from Greenland to Newfoundland and the Grand Banks, detailing pups born on Arctic ice, the change from white coats to ragged jackets, and the seals’ keen mothering instincts and navigational skills amid ice and storms. It notes pups’ rapid growth from squealing white infants to agile gray juveniles within a few years.
A narrator recalls a beggar with a music box and a well groomed poodle drawing pennies from passersby on Fourteenth Street. The piece contrasts street charity with the beggar’s apparent wealth and cites a tale of profitable begging and urban attitudes toward alms. The visit then shifts to Vertonda Greece, describing a farm, a noble landscape, Queen Amelia, a mansion, and a laboring community of thirty women from Chalcis, their daily drachma wage, diet, and Easter generosity, alongside reflections on work discipline and feast days.
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