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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1884
Page
1
A sentimental plea on home comforts praising the big airy closet as a source of joy for housekeepers. It urges builders to place closets in corners for Marys Katies and Annies, with well lighted, well aired spaces in both city and country homes, essential for order and happiness.
In a luxuriously lit room General Langton hears a tale from Maude a widow who loves him but hides her past. Alexander Hull a convicted felon and forger dies in prison and Langton learns Maude is linked to a murderous fraudster named James Fox who once claimed her as his wife.
A fiery denunciation condemns backbiters and slanderers who expose others faults. It extols humility and charity, rejects judging motives, and urges shielding others misfortunes with kindness, warning that only God can weigh thoughts and actions.
A brief exchange has one man asking another for a $3 loan. The respondent refuses, quipping that he knows himself too well to lend. The light exchange plays on self knowledge and humor rather than any serious event.
The piece recalls Wen rvy Clay aiding a sick traveler and later praising a former ally. It also recounts General Butler’s repartee with Henry F Durant in a sharp courtroom quip. The Louisville speech scene and the old mammy’s dignity highlight kindness and wit across eras.
A London correspondent recounts his fifteen year old son wasps nest outing and stung in the eye. He details how onion juice applied by a maid revived him and allowed him to return to the nest. He notes bees leave stings and urges onion juice as a ready remedy.
A weary husband and father endures daily fiscal shortfalls as wages vanish by day end. The obsessively repeated tale of transience follows him from dawn to night. He labors to clothe and feed his family, yet appears scantily dressed at the city gates.
A Buffalo lawyer, in the Court of Common Pleas, compared the bench to a Virginia rag-bag team made of two mules and a jackass. He was fined fifteen dollars and two days in jail for the remark.
A columnist urges readers aged sixty and up to embrace playfulness and humor. They warn against excessive seriousness, arguing that keeping a youthful spirit aids confidence with younger people and brightens life despite gray hair and wrinkles.
A widow recalls her husband Clemense Tebber as the most considerate man she ever knew. She describes nights spent watching him as he lay near death, and how he died without waking her to avoid disturbing her rest. The tale is told in Teras Siftings style with affectionate reminiscence.
A Paris physician who saved a rich child faces a debt dispute with a grateful mother. She offers a gold pocket book. he demands cash saying time is money. She slides two 2000 francs notes onto his table and leaves, leaving the doctor unsettled.
A collection of short quips and anecdotes featuring a colored man’s railroad suit, station misstatements, medical exam quips, a child’s medicine, a busy man’s breath, a bewhiskered coquette, a bank begging joke, hypocrite explanations, and a crafty varnisher’s pest control advice from a period newspaper.
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