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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1884
Page
1
Motivational lines urge perseverance in life’s battles, urging endurance and vim as keys to eventual success. The excerpt emphasizes continuing effort despite fierce conflict, suggesting victory is closer than imagined.
In a Southern town a brave Black boy Abram Simons defies lurking danger, helps save passengers from a wrecking plot, but is mortally wounded. Mammy Simons mourns as Abram dies, inspired by his act of courage and sacrifice in the village graveyard.
The article reports on night workers dubbed a queer lot by an owl-car conductor, who laments night work demoralizing hearts and souls while detailing the varied causes of passenger grumbles. It also includes editor Ben Buccn’s coin history from Lock Haven dated Jan 12 1883, tracing currency from shells to leather coins and early metal issues.
A hostess aimed to amuse guest Mr Blank, famed for a book on butter, by steering conversation from weather to cows. The guest grew bored. despite efforts, butter talk failed to engage him. The hostess revealed his real interest in Buddha, prompting feigned exclamations of Craciouz.
An Irish boy complains of cruel treatment from his father saying he is treated as if he were a son by another father and mother. The remark underlines family strife and emotional distress in a tense domestic scene.
A series of humorous vignettes includes a wedding riddle about a fellow and a girl, comic exchanges at a banquet where a reporter notes memory is hazy, and a householder quarreling over a plan. Silly interrogations, slang, and playful misreadings unfold alongside street scene quips about a street fight and policemen’s large beats.
A column highlights the ordeal at a post office window with ten minutes of questions and requests for mail, stamps and box access. Readers are invited to test the scene during a noon to post school dismissal window, noting the irritations and comic misdirections from visitors.
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