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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1887
Page
1
Carry Wallingford begins work at Mr. Pickrell’s Sixth Avenue dry goods store to support her aging Uncle Wolsey. The shop is bustling yet claustrophobic with cretonne, chintz, laces, and busy clerks while Carry adapts to the unfamiliar routine and social dynamics of sales floor life.
Carry, a shop girl at Pickrell's Emporium, helps a handsome stranger choose silk for a present. The pair banters about color and length, and he buys eighteen yards with linings and a silk neck muffler, gloves, and then reveals himself as a cousin. Uncle Wolsey later confirms the family link and hints at a wedding.
Hippodro mus encounters laborer Theodectes and asks why he never rests. Theodectes replies he labors to earn money for food to gain strength to work more, continuing in an endless circle. Winsted Conn Press notes this is the story’s open-ended premise.
English sprinter Fred Vokes alias Eliott poses as a patent medicine man in McArthur Ohio. He loses a quick race and then wins the $600 pot by running a staged trial slowly before exposing the ruse and taking the money. Vokes boasts he could have run away with more.
Rev Dr Edersheim argues that the Bible’s opening words summarize scripture and life. He treats creation as origin and guide, with law as negative and gospel as positive.
A patriarch tests marriage prospects by placing a broomstick to guide his son and guests in choosing a wife. The sun fosters a prudent industrious marriage as the chosen woman, educated and wealthy, marries the suitor who respects the broomstick’s placement. The couple builds fortune and frugality together.
London January 19 crowd panics at Prince's Street Hall during a benefit by the Hebrew Dramatic Club. Seventeen corpses discovered among crushed victims including twelve women and several children. eyewitnesses report ruthless crowding at the main entrance and police restore order. The hall is littered with wreckage as mourners gather outside through the night.
A Kentucky tale recalls a wealthy planter who built a church and preached without collections for twenty years. He invited neighbors each Sunday and paid all expenses, yet there were no conversions. The moral: people value what costs them effort and money.
A piece recalling Washington's birth site near the lower Rappahannock and nearby Stafford county home. It notes the old Virginia houses with wide ends and sloping roofs, the cherry tree episode, and Washington's prowess taming a fierce young colt that died, while underscoring his bond with his mother during his youth.
An anecdote recalls Edward Everett kindly receiving a boy delivering proof-sheets in a vast library. Everett’s polite gesture, asking if a paper should wrap the sheets, left the errand boy with lasting respect and a lesson in humility.
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