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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1884
Page
1
The speaker questions lingering wartime trauma and asks Congress to consider the sacrifices of soldiers. He recalls the fear and shelling, wonders how they would have fought if fate had been harsher, and notes the nation’s focus now shifting to pardon and rebuilding.
Three street urchins lingered outside St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth as a decorated Christmas tree arrives. Pet feigns illness to glimpse the tree, is placed in the children’s ward, and soon reveals the truth. Despite hospital care, consumption claims him within months.
A humorous Odgen-style reminiscence discusses Florida orange growing costs including land, clearing, evicting squatters, and long startup years. It cites the need for capital, labor, and subsistence expenses, then pivots to a comic editorial about a local paper editor and a quarrel with a rambunctious correspondent Hankerson, ending with a punchline about being asked if the author interviewed a mule.
Col Jerome Bonaparte, heir to a French throne and American professional man, stands tall among attendees. The article notes his noble bearing, reluctance for throne ambitions, and resemblance to Napoleon, contrasting him with Gen Sheridan’s shorter frame at the event.
During the war two New York men traveled to Pennsylvania to explore for oil and found a stratum. They offered to buy five acres from an old German landowner to turn over to the government to aid the Union. The landowner demanded a thousand dollars per acre if oil existed, and two hundred if not, framing the choice as patriotism.
Jeems' oldest son wished to attend the policemen's ball but his mother warned him against balls as dangerous. The next morning he refused ash-balls at breakfast, echoing her warning, and she quipped if he was afraid of bones.
A young man in Waupun Wisconsin organized an accordion corps and, at latest reports, stayed about half a mile ahead of the townsfolk though exhausted. The scene suggested a lively, hopeful pursuit in the local tale.
The clipping notes a Californian judge accused of frivolity over hair in papers, Germany to record heavy drinkers for treatment, and a praise of the United States Patent Office’s self funding with a $2.5 million balance. It also reports a Pocahontas County farmer seeking to sell slaves in Virginia, unaware of emancipation. It adds science notes on brick weathering by microscopic organisms and the ear’s finger roar as a glimpse into body processes.
A coal boat skipper on the Baltimore and Ohio canal marries his longtime cook after a brief venue, pays a parson a dollar and a half, then orders the towpath tasking for the bride as they plan to work together on future voyages.
Two Boston men tramp through the White Mountains and quiz a hut keeper tending a garden. They joke about sightlines claiming Europe and then laugh at the farmer by saying they can see “the name,” showing the playful clash of wit.
A Chicago girl boasts she weighs 120 pounds in her stockings and flouts the claim with a cousin from St. Louis who questions her total weight. The exchange highlights playful family banter over appearances.
A collage of light humor and misused wording featuring playful quips about milk pitchers as fly catchers, brain weights by gender, and social quirks. It riffs on school, family life, and manners with cartoonish punchlines and era-tinged social observations.
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