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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1884
Page
1
A country classroom scene depicts a pale tired girl teacher and restless Jim. The poem contrasts a hot summer day with dull grammar and geography lessons, a brook outside, and a longing for the stream and fish. The teacher contemplates flowers and time, urging patience and dedication to study.
A struggling farmer faces a wet hay season and hires his neighbor’s daughter Molly to harvest the crop. They work side by side all afternoon and into night, with gratitude expressed but no marriage proposal made. The narrator notes Molly’s anger at the end as she leaves at the gateway.
On a Brazil bound voyage from Lisbon Captain Barclay and five young men watch Lucy Forrester, daughter of an old friend, stir competition among admirers. Clitheroe, known as the dry man, remains cool while Jack Fitzgerald and others vie for her attention until a staged rescue test ends with Lucy choosing the unruffled navigator.
A compilation of historical milestones and social notes including firsts in industry and science, population wages, and regional highlights. It catalogs items from almanac dates to local exploits, such as Penobscot salmon runs, Maine politicians, and a Boston girls’ paper-torpedo output.
A Western paper cites a railroad collision with the headline Boiler Empty and Engineer Full. A Richmond Missouri vigilance committee of Black men lashed a Black man who had beaten his wife.
A humorous exchange shows Mrs Blank noting a husband’s umbrella technique. The couple jokes about past clumsy handling causing Mrs Blank’s clothing damage. She teases that marriage has made him more careful now he pays for her things.
M Quad urges boys to become orderly, accurate, and educated. He warns that slovenliness wastes time and harm follows overwork. He argues schooling should match career aims, emphasizing practical math over unnecessary subjects and advocating fair recreation.
John Sherman reports from Huron on Central Dakota 1884 settlement boom. He notes rapid growth since 1880 railways, high farm yields of wheat oats rye and corn, growing towns such as Holabird and Hyde county organization, and urges readers to consider Dakota for farming despite cautions about land prices and local politics. Vandals are not present.
A Kentucky congressman named Ben Hardin, traveling in frontier attire, feigns ignorance at a Virginia town to join a literary society debate. He ends the session exposing the two pranksters who sought to trick him, earning praise from the audience and an ovation as locals bid him farewell.
A satirical dialogue portrays a sage as one who knows when to buy stocks. It ridicules a successful financier who drains a bank and ruins sugar in Wall Street. A philosopher loses his wife's money in silver and buys pork profits. A financial prophet proclaims prosperity midweek then crashes by billions.
Five of the six murderers hanged on a recent Friday in this country declared that rum had led them into crime. The report notes their claims as part of the final days before execution.
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