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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1885
Page
4
A humorous survey lists signs that the era is tight: snow shoveling, pawning a watch, a beard to save shaving costs, matchups against refrigerators, aging beau dyeing hair, and other playful indicators. Puck notes readers should view gloom with skepticism while noting practical frugality.
An advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup to ease teething pain in children. It claims quick relief for crying, dysentery, diarrhea, wind colic, and gum inflammation, praising the remedy as pleasant in taste and widely sold at 25 cents per bottle.
A woman laments a post office error after a letter and a dollar vanish in a mistaken mix up. A clerk reports an absurd note signed Slouch from Chicago, and the tale ends with a humorous line about the misaddressed mail. The piece also notes fashion trends, selling common owls for 3 to 8 dollars and white owls for 15 to 20 dollars.
In Willow Bend the pay train pays railroad hands and settles cattle claims. Rufus McConkey challenges a young paymaster, calling him to confirm names and terms. The exchange ends with McConkey calling the assistant a liar as he exits, while a pistol is half-cocked in the frame. Austin Siftings report.
Reports describe extreme cold and heavy snows driving wolves from the Carpathians into cultivated districts. In Homonna North Hungary a pack of 120 wolves entered a village as residents went to church, later driven off by Uhlans with swords and carbines.
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