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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1880
Page
1
Advertising multiple business cards including A Sturgis dealer in watches clocks jewelry and silverware offering neat prompt repairs with warranty. Nearby is a Justice of the Peace service for claims collection, and A Walter is listed as an auctioneer and cashier in Rebersburg, PA.
A devotional verse asking blessings on babes, mother, kin, toil workers, the weary, desolate, and diverse people. It seeks universal grace for the dying and wrongdoers alike, ending with trustful slumber and a plea for God’s enduring fold.
In October in San Francisco Bay a rich captain and his daughter plan a grand wedding with Captain Fred Goodwin. Their voyage aboard the Ocean Bird ends in a hurricane near the Cape, leaving only the captain and his bride alive beside the wreck, their spirits joining in a bridal ascent.
The text condemns the drunkard’s course as lawless and unprofitable, ending in misery. It warns that those devoted to mere ceremonies or fruitless speculations drift into spiritual darkness and gloom.
The rose’s origin is uncertain, but its varieties are vast and ancient. Wild types exist in the United States, including prairie and swamp roses, while Cherokee roses came from China. Cultivated roses include the red French rose from Syria and the cabbage rose from the Caucasus. The ottar of roses, used for perfumes, requires 4000 pounds of rose leaves per pound, making it very costly. Damask and musk roses supply most perfume.
A Sacramento warehouse watchman was subjected to a startling hoax as six alarm clocks hidden in desk drawers were triggered in sequence starting around 1 am. The clocks chimed from different desks, provoking alarms and wild guesses before the joke was finally revealed.
An experiment shows that using the smallest amount of seed in each hill yields the best crop for Early Rose potatoes.
Colonel Haig recounts his trek to Judgalpoor Easter county describing the Indravati Falls near Chitra kot. The river rises to flood height, joins with the Narnagi, and plunges ninety four feet over a sandstone ledge in a horse shoe form, with red brown to ochre waters and spray obscuring the chasm.
Choose a manageable business, cap capital investments, insure stock and property, buy only needed items, sell to good parties, set due dates, demand payment, insure profits, live within income, and avoid overextending. Competition drives trade but do not destroy yourself in the process.
A hotel guest in Baltimore last week dined solo with a formal eight course menu. The sequence included soup, baked shad, boiled mutton, various meat dishes with sauces, pies, vegetables, and desserts ending with coffee and nuts.
Old Potts of San Francisco uses a six month old calf to test his theory that eating young animals spreads disease. A sleeping crowd, a cellar rescue, and a half‑hidden murder accusation propel a chaotic reveal. Potts locks away the calf and resumes his scientific dream.
The piece argues dinners demand careful planning and punctual replies to invitations. It extols simple in house meals with capable staff as superior to grand show dinners, and notes the value of reliable domestic service and a fixed team of waiters. It recounts a foreign nobleman's remark on hiring retained servers in New York.
The author argues against rigid writing systems and urges letting educated children develop their natural hand. Focus on legibility and result over method, accepting early messiness. Over time handwriting improves through practice, with age bringing changes in style but keeping clarity and decisiveness.
A narrative describes a black hunter climbing a tall smooth tree with a notch in the bark using his body as he ascends to a fork about forty feet up. He uses hollow branches to drop stones that reveal a trapped opossum, which is killed and roasted. The guest watches as the hunter consumes entrails, provoking disgust.
Jamie Welch of Detroit confronts a stranger who drops a counterfeit fifty cent piece. After a chase and a scuffle, the coin is recovered and the court calls it the worst counterfeit seen. The offender is fined ten dollars or sixty days in jail.
An old exchange recounts a man who plants corn and, two or three weeks later, adds a new hill every fifteenth row. Dry weather after planting dries silk and tassels. silk can revive with rain but tassels cannot. Without pollen the new silk cannot fill, but pollen from replanted corn can supply silk and finish filling ears. He notes partly barren ears stem from pollen lack, and some ears double their size during this filling.
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