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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1885
Page
1
Office opposite the Public School House offers writing and acknowledgment of deeds and other legal papers at moderate charges with L Springer operating in Woodings Building.
A tale of a warm May house with two widows and a lively maid, where a charming Mrs Graham arouses suspicion. A burglary exposes missing jewelry and money, traced to Mrs Graham via a lace scrap, leading to her capture by a detective with Dick Fraser and a village inspector.
A new dry process uses electricity as the agent to refine cane sugar, eliminating bone black and boiling. Reported as producing 100 percent pure sugar from low grades in about four hours with continuous output. Machinery, power, and facilities cost about $100,000 in England for a 4000 barrels per day capacity, with losses under 0.5 percent.
A traveler recalls a Rutgers incident from 1856 57 when pranksters stole and dumped the corner stone of the Rutgers Theological Seminary into a canal near a red clay bluff along the river. The planned ceremony was disrupted and blamed on town youths.
A drunk man, Gilhooly, leaves a bar and swindles two hack drivers, hopping between rides to save money. He later falls into mortar, returns home soaked and ruined, and discovers he has effectively paid back the two fares he swindled. His ruined clothes are worth about forty dollars.
An American lecture on marriage and domestic bliss paints a cozy scene with children, a cat, and a dog. The tired yet happy husband lounges in an easy chair with his feet in his wife’s lap, a portrayal that may mislead English listeners about American husbands.
The Baltimore Sun recalls Elias Howe the sewing machine inventor who enlisted as a private. When his regiment went unpaid for three months he visited the quartermaster in uniform and offered to pay the soldiers’ back pay with a check for the entire amount. The government later reimbursed him.
Two Dallas men hired to move a cow with a calf failed to reach the yard of owner Thomas Carlyle. A comic chase ensued as Sam held the calf, Bill wrestled the rope, and the cow tossed Sam onto rails and horns. Carlyle declared the contract breached and claimed the dollar. A potential lawsuit looms.
An army officer recalls Grant in Chicago years ago acting as an overworked clerk at Sheridan's HQ. Grant helps an anxious visitor find a missing paper, then escorts him to the door. The man, astonished, asks who the polite clerk is and later offers fifty cents to be kicked down stairs.
A young man recalls a failed romance and a dinner demand for an $800 camel’s hair shawl that left a woman crying. He notes a miscalculated delivery of half a million bushels at eighty seven cents and laments loving an ice dealer’s daughter, while a sharp meeting with Miss Fairbanks ends the scene.
The Arkansaw Traveler recounts Colonel Griggleson who buys on credit and dodges payments. A merchant balks at more goods as the colonel insists on trust and honor, recalling his father. The exchange ends with the goods promised for delivery.
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