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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1883
Page
1
The poem contrasts distant mountains and valleys with a yearning for home. It notes happy dreams scattering beyond the purple peaks. A deeper music charms the soul as red stars brighten and streams leap past fern shaded nooks.
In a comic village mix up, Squire Packenhams anger at Betsey Briggs sparks a chain of misread signals. A book agent, a cousin sea captain, and a scarecrow dummy trigger a farcical chase before Betsey returns, revealing no harm done and a tea afterwards.
A collection of aphorisms on honesty, ambition, envy, and character. Notes on friendship, promise keeping, courtesy, and choosing rough paths. A poetic aside about light and humor contrasts with a tale of a moist spring and a flooded real estate scene at a prairie town harbor with submerged corner-stakes and a diving-bell.
The male ostrich builds the nest by scratching soil and digging holes on alternating sides until a large sitting space is formed. Eggs number from forty to sixty per pair, laid every other day for weeks, with incubation of about forty five to fifty days. Both parents brood, the male providing warmth at night and aiding hatchlings, which soon forage with minimal parental guidance.
In St Paul the Boomtown spectacle promotes land schemes through gilded prose and auction sales led by the Marquis of Mud. Tourists hear of rail access and a future capital while investors buy lots for status, profit, or amusement as misaligned climate and inland location disappoint.
A historical account from St Nicholas describes the weaving of the Brooklyn Bridge cables. Workers laid wires side by side and bound them into bundles, creating four 3578 foot long cables using travellers and steam power. The process ran from June 11, 1877 to October 5, 1878 with dangers and tight coordination between towers and engineers.
The Philadelphia Press profiles Italian plaster image makers who sell small plaster sculptures for about twenty five cents. It explains their frugal lives, cheap materials, and high-volume production methods, noting the transitory nature of their work and markets.
A collection of humorous observations and witticisms on modern life. Jests about eating, streetcar costs, onions gifted to editors, fan behavior, soda, and weather lore. It notes a florist's tip on wrapping flowers, a graceful man on an orange peel, and a barber quip about haircut length.
The city hosts six equestrian statues, more than any other city worldwide, featuring figures of Washington, Jackson, Greene, Scott, McPherson and Thomas.
A new Uti ca company will manufacture common hand sewing needles by machinery. The Fontaine designed needle machine, linked to the famed locomotive inventor, is highlighted for speed. Production centers include Ridditch Birmingham Hath ersage Derbyshire and Bor cette Aix la Chapell Germany. Ridditch and Bor cette are key sources with about fourteen thousand workers and an annual output near ten thousand million needles, with the United States consuming a little over ten percent.
At Centrebrook Connecticut the process of bleaching ivory for piano keys is slow but overall done in large quantities with as many as 10 000 sets sometimes on hand in various stages of the operation.
A brief quoted poem fragment describes Earth lacking dews until a baby dies. The verses speak of a dimpled infant, eyes at paradise gates, and angels weeping as dew breaks on the baby's grave. The source cites Lucy M. Blinn in the Continent.
A San Francisco Chronicle report describes two mendicant fraternities in Japan the O Biku Sans and Bikini. Members, often orphans or widows, wear grass head coverings shave heads and beg for alms while offering reverence before temples. Proceeds are kept by their establishments.
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