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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1885
Page
1
Central hotel landmark cited at the corner of Main and Jay Streets in Lock Haven Pennsylvania marking a notable city site.
Fannie Pleasanton cares for Barbara Golding, a starving seamstress who loves Cyrus Lennox. Barbara reveals Lennox’s past love. Fannie discovers he loves Barbara but agrees to release him. Cyrus pledges to marry Barbara if needed, honoring Fannie’s sacrifice. Barbara recovers, and the trio’s bonds resolve in a quiet, hopeful ending.
In a Detroit saloon a man jokes that Carl Dunder will secure the next bossship as crowds cheer and him and his friends expect favors. He recalls Cleveland era politics and fears of losing an office while a lodge crowd hypes a future administration amid bets and bravado.
Disturbances from wallpaper poisoning manifest as bilious fever hay fever and in severe cases nervous prostration according to the report.
Sheriff Joe Smith leads a five man party including Gerard Austin Dr Limburg Billy Seed and C Lee in a dramatic bear hunt on Prospect Peak Conejos county The grizzly weighing over five hundred pounds was killed after the hunter grabbed the bear by the tail and the party fired their rifles The skin is at the Hotel Brunswick and the group sustained scratches and bruises from the fight A London paper comments on dramatic critics and actors as well
A collage of curiosities and facts from 19th century public life. These notes mention Anna Dickens lecturing, China using postal cards, five men a year to make a locomotive, Standard Oil employing 93,000, electricity hatching chickens, 7,500 California blacks, peppermint farming prosperity in Pennsylvania, nettle seersucker, 3,580 Pennsylvania post offices, Idaho venison sold at 2 cents a pound, conductors with revolvers in Mexico, travelers more polite than the French, 16 U.S. locomotive works, Washington’s 200,000 expected visitors on March 4, and Mrs. Vanderbilt in black for church. Also cited are Canada post office deposits at 13,986,134, Liverpool port’s ship fleet lead, rising Jewish undergraduates at Oxford, Florida winter hotels run by Northern men, 75 New York newspapers started and died in 30 years, U.S. cigars 3,000,000,000 yearly, 22 retired rear admirals in Washington to 2 commodores, Troy Hudson ice harvest 135,000 tons, Maine rivers frozen clean, 7 Spanish churches destroyed by earthquake in Antiquita, globe voyage cost 250 from San Francisco to Yokohama, tobacco treaty concessions, Danish sugar beets, Ohio corn bushel weight 68, and a New York reform group to erase profanity. Also suggested are growing skating rinks in towns of 5,000 or more and 15,000 unemployed in St. Louis with 2,000 Scots planning a Los Angeles colony.
A St Paul Pioneer Press correspondent reports a Dakota town farmer buying butter and eggs, prompting merchants to mock farmers. The piece notes many local farmers own land but keep no milk cows or pigs and buy dairy and produce rather than raise them.
The narrator quotes Sidney Smith urging resilience in the face of despair. He mocks dwelling on future poverty, recommends action and humor to ease melancholy, and recalls personal improvement through persistence. He notes fears fade as life progresses, with daughters marrying well and opportunities arising, urging readers to seize chances rather than brood.
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