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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1884
Page
1
A lyrical reflection recalls a strain of music and a passing face seen in evening mists. Hawthorn dew, May light on leaves, a millwheel under a hill, and a swallow in flight evoke a cherished memory. The verse laments as fancies that feel dear through memory’s light.
Fragments of a verse urging steadfastness through calm or storm. Lines exhort resilience, integrity, and steady effort while navigating betrayal and daily toil. The text blends rhythmic couplets with stray garbled phrases.
In a sunlit schoolyard Miss Negley pressures Alice Hopkins over pay cuts and dignity. Alice contemplates resignation but finds support when Mr Barthorne privately proposes marriage, offering security and a new life away from the hostile town politics.
The piece reflects on trust, opportunity, prejudice, and courage, urging that true merit lies in character and action. It argues that life should be measured by deeds, not years, and that honest, decisive speech defines influence more than wealth or title.
A string of humorous vignettes and quips appears, ranging from a wife denying an accusation about her dyed hair to a mother asking a child about fear of the dark. The piece then shifts to witty lines about a fat woman with a basket, a Chinese artist, a joke about Irish and Yankee spouses, a poorhouse singer, royal gloves, a contested will, and a roller skates anecdote. It closes with a Kentucky man correcting his obituary and a joke about death notices.
A letter from John Quincy Adams praised by a listener who learned his mother’s influence shaped his character. Adams recalled his mother’s warning that he avoid profane behavior, and he credited her with all that was good in him after a man claimed to have found “who made you.”
A short tale shows Tommy the boy in high chair solving a joke about ten glasses of wine making a man beastly drunk. He concludes it is safest not to drink and his father pledges total abstinence with Dean, seen as a moral arc from study to action. The closing line notes rain hits both just and unjust because they borrow umbrellas.
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