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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1887
Page
4
A roundup notes nationwide fire losses totaling 326 million dollars and cigars and tobacco spending at 206 million. It highlights statistics on marriage, crime, and longevity, California’s metal output, train speeds, and a push for universal safety railcar couplers to prevent injuries and deaths among brakemen.
Zeb Finch narrates Shuck Trotter's July Fourth in the Sick Skillet neighborhood. The celebration features home made powder, a risky plan to bore holes in logs, and a chaotic fireworks display that ends with a flying millon, a toppled crowd, and a loud splash of laughter from Liza Baker and others.
The passage recalls Birdie McHennipin and Gus De Smith after a failed elopement attempt. He storms out in anger after a solemn proposal witnessed by Miss Birdie and her mother, leaving Birdie to question whether her mother’s jokes offended him and reflecting on social expectations in Austin society.
A professor and a student prank a poor laborer by leaving money in his shoes. The man finds two dollars, prays in gratitude, and learns his wife and child are sick. The professor concludes the act of generosity surpassed the joke, blessing the farmer’s family.
A lecturer argues that poor families’ staple foods fail to nourish teeth. He explains that the outer bran of corn oats wheat barley contains lime salts essential for dental structure, while removing it weakens subsequent generations’ teeth.
Four women fishing in Maine on a rainy day launched a boat without a container for fish. A lively pickerel flopped in the boat and one woman wrapped it in her waterproof. Each of the four then wrapped their own pickerel, keeping the fish dry while they stayed soaked.
Bill Nye delivers a patriotic address tracing America from colonial hardship to a boast of liberty. He recalls early tyranny and frontier danger, contrasts past and present freedoms, laments press and class tensions, and critiques railway conductors while praising national progress and public spirit.
The ad verse traces Castoria’s use from infant sickroom remedies to motherhood and grandchildren, concluding with a playful Fourth of July demand. A stray Herald note captions a street scene where a traveler wakes to a display calling for five cent illuminated pediments, hinting at urban commerce.
Mrs Flyaway and her husband recount summer mishaps from Florida to the mountains and sea shore, including malaria bites bears and ivy poisoning, ending with a plan to stay home due to weakness and listlessness.
A young Walter Scott rose to the head of his class by exploiting a classmate's distraction. He noticed a reciter tug at a jacket button and secretly removed it. In the next recitation the boy fumbled, broke down, and Scott claimed the top rank, later regretting the unfair trick. First-class job work done at the JOURNAL office.
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