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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1883
Page
1
A reflective verse urging humanity to seek love over wealth and pride. It envisions a world improved by fraternal bonds, shared care, and deeds of kindness, asking for wisdom in small things and unity when Right confronts Wrong.
On a stormy February night at Elmwood a man named Hugh Lambert helps Dorothy Nayton, Mrs Newton’s niece, reach safety. Over weeks he grows close to her, she questions Platonic love, but their bond deepens until they marry at Leyton, prompting a playful clash over their longtime friendship theory.
A Demorest's Palmer reference celebrates the vast motion of Earth and the solar system. It notes the sun travels through space about 160 million miles yearly, the system moves Herculesward, and our galaxy rival astonishment with cosmic scale.
Centenarian research leader Joseph E Perkins reports over ten thousand 100 year plus records gathered across literature, letters, and inquiries. He cites ages such as 370 in India, 180 in America, 176 in South America, and 162 Africans in thirteen years, noting longevity varies by country and class.
A tale of P. T. Barnum using a painted sign reading This way to Egress to send crowds outside the show. The ruse triggered a mass exit as spectators followed the line to an imagined new animal exhibit, draining the auditorium in minutes.
The article explains how the human body constantly consumes energy through heart activity and digestion. It compares daily food use to a ledger, noting about eight and a half pounds of food and drink are used daily, producing enough energy to raise 3400 tons one foot high, with roughly ten percent as profit.
A Philadelphia Ledger correspondent details Saltville near the Clinch mountains in West Tennessee where Confederate salt was produced. Palmer and Stuart became wealthy through salt rights, land acquisitions, and a booming wartime trade supplying Georgia and Alabama, yielding up to ten million bushels annually before production waned to about 600000 bushels a year.
The article explains U S government rewards for rescuers at risk, detailing gold and silver medals, how awards evolved from first and second class to world medals, the nomination process, and the decorative bars added for subsequent achievements. It notes the Philadelphia mint producing a new series and describes the medal designs.
A man upset by a personal notice in the paper demanded a precise printed correction. He insisted on dictating the exact wording, though his cold made the phrasing odd. The paper printed his correction: Bister John Dicolas spedt Sudday id Columbus, later clarifying it should read Greed Towdshib Sudday and Collbus.
A short dramatic poem in which a wife contemplates which of two spouses may die first and bear the burden of unshared grief. She imagines sitting by a bed and later by a coffin, fearing the loss and asking which one it will be. The speaker probes the agony of anticipated separation and the impossibility of shared sorrow.
A collage of wry observations on everyday life and urban quirks. Notes on steel, bridges, windows, twins, washing outfits, and a Vienna window cleaning venture hint at social foibles and humor. A vigilant gatekeeper and a truckler tale of a steamboat deck layover conclude collected scraps.
Curious demonstrations in Philadelphia show sound altering soap film colors and patterns. A soap film across a phone lidoscope end reflected on a canvas, turning bluish gray, then black spots appeared with voice, followed by light green and pink hues. The colors vary with tone, while gender of voice made no difference.
The Lancaster Farmer notes editorial consensus that sparrows are finch like grain eaters rather than insectivores. It cites Mr. Jonesby joking that a sparrow would eat an insect if another bird desired it, recounting a bluebird and sparrows contest over a worm and a string.
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