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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1886
Page
1
Madisonburg announces deeds and legal papers written and acknowledged at moderate charges. With years of experience the public can expect quality work and modern accommodations. Office in Woodings Building. Hastings and Reeder provide services.
A fourteen year old boy accused of stealing money pleads for mercy in a Boston counting room. The merchant Glendon sentences him, but the truth emerges. the money came from Glendon himself. Twenty years pass as Sanderson and Glendon face a new accusation against the son. Sanderson reveals the documents and forgives, restoring the son and ending a personal feud.
In 1813 a mill in Wal tham Mass is credited as the first in the world to combine all steps needed to produce finished cloth from raw cotton.
A historical comparison notes that the United States possesses roughly three times as many telephones as all of Europe, highlighting vast differences in communications infrastructure and market penetration during the period.
In 1864 a seven year old girl named Sallie fed a sick Union prisoner daily for four months by passing meals to a guarded prison. When Yankee soldiers later re-entered town, one officer claimed Sallie as his Yankee, revealing her mercy had saved his life. He died later in battle, and Sallie grew up to marry and raise a family.
A Detroit stove dealer sold a widow a coal stove with a guarantee. After repeated safety issues from chimney drafts to misused dampers, the dealer faced mounting repairs. The widow finally proposed marriage to ensure ongoing support, and they wed quietly days later.
An old man on a bench laments his wife’s death and loss of wages as a blow to his happiness. He recalls her earnings rising from $12 to $15 a month before she died, leaving him fearful for his future and obliged to seek work.
A man enters a New York railway station ladies room and questions a widow about her missing husband. He insinuates danger and watches her reaction, then confesses he merely warned that peanuts are unsafe this season. The woman discovers her husband alive and confronts the deception.
In a treasury room a high official endures a humor fuelled chill as clerks trigger a prank. A clerk burns the thermometer bulb with a cigar raising the mercury to eighty. The official rushes home sick while colleagues sneeze in triumph, the next day the official claims all is well.
A.B. Allen discusses typical heights and weights of thoroughbreds used for roadsters and carriage horses in the United States and England. He notes breeders favor horses around fifteen and one half to sixteen and a half hands high, weighing eleven hundred to thirteen hundred pounds, with larger stock appearing in England and promising stock from descendants of notable sires in Kentucky.
Rev. T De Witt Talmage preached January 10 in a marriage series. He warned many should not marry and cited England and U S female excesses, opium use, and dishonest courtship. He contrasted temperaments and warned against misjudging partners before ending with his mother’s deathbed scene.
A New York letter describes a speculator who paid $250 000 in commissions to a Wall Street firm over four years and now seeks a clerical post after heavy losses. By contrast a young clerk who started with $200 now owns over $1,000,000 in real estate and securities, illustrating how gains and losses in speculation fall unevenly between individuals.
Advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claiming quick relief for teething pain and associated symptoms. Presents it as the prescription of an experienced nurse and available from druggists worldwide at 25 cents per bottle. Contains multiple health claims including curing dysentery, diarrhea, wind colic, and gums reduction.
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