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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1887
Page
1
Mrs Walton plans a Saturday luncheon for Brockton society ladies with Miss Walton, Tom, and Lou coordinating a grand, improvised meal. Amid rain and grafting nerves, the kitchen chaos yields a flawless dessert and a forthcoming wedding between Lou and Dr. Appleton.
The note discusses birds gliding downward using extended wings as parachutes and cites cranes spiraling upward to gain height. It then recounts a long farmers chat in Kenebec County about hard times, debt, and relics of a weary farm, contrasting optimism with a stubborn claimant’s losses. It finishes with brief political items on Hayti debt, a Washington cable railway plan, and farm schools and temperance proposals.
A Washington correspondence recalls the Catawba tribe once living near the South Carolina North Carolina border. The chief discussed by the writer was educated in Georgia, as whites encroached on Catawba lands amid efforts to lease and deny fields, leaving fewer than a hundred natives today. The note also mentions Secretary Bayard’s recent action condemning Pelletier’s Haitian damages claim.
A Stockton lawyer in the Bay Area encounters a Texan who explains that in Texas lawyers vanish after burial. The tale ends with the punchline about a mystery disappearance and a lingering brimstone smell, leaving both men unimpressed.
Miss Kate Field responded to the toast The Men at a Grand Army of the Republic dinner. She praised the soldiers for toasting women and noted that both sexes shape ideas, with humor about long years of male discourse.
The Charleston Dispatch survey lists concise lessons for daughters: practical math, sewing, and etiquette, independent thought, thrift, healthful dress, garden care, house order, and caution with improper company. It elevates education, music or art, and superior work ethic over idle status, urging steady churchgoing and reading for practical knowledge.
The speaker argues for women’s public speaking rights and fluency, noting Eve as the original orator and praising courage. He contrasts private and public speech, praises Mrs Claudle and women in leadership, and connects eloquence to national endurance and republican values.
A San Francisco public school teacher told by a lawyer at 2 p.m. that she is heir to $200000 remained calm and said she would finish geography with her class and discipline three boys before visiting the lawyer in an hour.
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