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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1885
Page
1
Advertisement listing rooms available in Philadelphia near 6th Street south of Chestnut, near Walnut Street Theatre. Describes remodeled, newly furnished rooms on American and European plans with rates from 50 cents to 3 dollars per day. Owned by W Paine M D.
A veteran mechanic with years of experience promises quality workmanship on everything from overall jobs to fine suits and coats. The text notes guaranteed satisfactory results and highlights his broad expertise.
Miss Matilda Fennis confronts her sister in law Henrietta over an engagement to a mysterious man Theocrastus Belleville turns out to be Nat Narroway in disguise prompting a house dispute and eventual marriage for Matilda The piece concludes with Senator Henry Wilson recounting his temperance pledge and rise to power inspiring cheers for steadfast conviction.
Samuel G. Scott delivers phrases from his Plain Talks to Young Men address in Association Hall Philadelphia. He stresses entering business as a pivotal life event and notes job scarcity may force taking any available position. He urges work, modest wages, honesty as policy, and warns against misrepresentation and risky speculation.
A Boston era note recounts Lord Timothy Dexter an eccentric New Englander who printed A Pickle for the Knowing Ones in 1848 with punctuation supplied by readers. Dexter famed for vanity oddities his wooden statue house and poor spelling. The book ends with a single page of punctuation for readers to pepper to taste.
The Drum Summond mine near Butte City, Montana, sold for 1.6 million dollars after English buyers pressed to buy a six share stake. Thomas Cruse, a long-time Montana prospector, resisted one clause granting a one sixth interest to purchasers, and ultimately secured the full five sixths for 1.6 million. Cruse had previously lived frugally despite wealth and mined pay dirt by hand with minimal capital.
A group in a public park shares astonishing stories. One man recalls a mill post incident in York State where a coat tail trapped a helper, then another recounts a Milwaukee Bay dive to recover a powder horn, only for a friend to steal the horn and whistle from the lake floor.
Aboard a dining tavern boarder extols Shakespeare saying his genius lifts thoughts beyond bread and butter. The scene ends with the man rushing to soup, collapsing into a chair and slurping soup at a quart a minute.
In New York an industry recovers old shoes and boots worth five to fifteen cents for leather. The leather is ground into pulp after cleaning, then used to cover embossed leather papers, fire screens, carriage tops, bindings, and leather frames. The article notes fashion presses a medieval look while recycling waste footwear.
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