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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1884
Page
1
A speaker contemplates stately homes and cold hardship. Amid echoes of social exclusion and despair, they vow to resist the tempter and seek endurance with Heaven’s support, aiming for a better afterlife in a “Beautiful Land.”
A lyrical dialogue presents a baby’s origins through questions about birth and creation. The verses attribute origins to divine acts and celestial imagery, with gentle reflections on how love and God shaped the infant and the speaker’s existence.
The tale recalls a 56 season voyage from Mobile to New Orleans on a small schooner commanded by Captain Warrenton. A fifteen year old sailor Ned Allen and a single hand joined the voyage, with two notorious Alabama outlaws Ruell Victor and Dennis Lorne at large and a $3000 reward. While aboard the crew heard voices from the hold as a stowaway is discovered amid cargo and nearing suspense.
A boy narrator recounts Buell Victor and Dennis Lorne escaping Mobile jail by stowing in the hold. The pair plot to seize the ship at night but Captain Warrenton and the narrator overpower them with ropes and hand spikes, seize one, bind others, and turn them over to authorities for a three thousand dollar reward while Ned Allen is punished. The tale closes with moral advice for husbands and a comic dialogue about marriage prospects between John and Maria.
A 19th century column notes strict game laws in New Jersey and the thriving off season market for frogs and reptiles. It describes frog catching with nets on ponds, eats of bullfrogs versus smaller frogs, and the demand from New York and Philadelphia restaurants. It also mentions snakeskin trade, rattlesnake eating in parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and other varied items including a cat trained to steal mackerel, high postage to Patagonia, slavery in San Francisco, homestead law changes, camels for freight, a 100th birthday confession, Fairmount Bridge wire quality, cotton in building material, and a Bath widow who lost her woodpile to a grateful crew.
A peculiar sermon spoof notes a Highland habit of inserting the pronoun he in holy text. It recalls a Rev Mr sermon that misplaces he in the verse about the devil roaming like a roaring lion. The speaker outlines four humorous heads examining who the devil was where he was going who he was seeking and what the devil was roaring about.
Amelia admires dolls and jokes about kissing them. A gallant man replies with playful remarks about the toys, capturing a lighthearted scene in a shop window.
A fragment from the Brunswick scene notes a man asking about cigars and a vendor’s reply. The speaker mocks a buyer who discards a first-class cigar after two puffs, arguing life is hard and cigars are not meant for such folks.
The reader notes that umbrellas tend to rise in price more often than other commodities during price swings. The comment implies a pattern of recurring cost increases in umbrella markets.
Police reporter interviews Willie Howe at the Palmer House in Chicago. Howe dismisses burglaries as rare, noting Joliet confinement of last thieves and explaining hotel thefts target small valuables, emphasize vault security, and avoid locked rooms when occupants are present.
In an address to Lehigh University alumni Thomas M. Crown outlines how iron and later steel emerged from accidental fires and heating. Observations of metal in ashes led to experiments hammering hot metal into a single mass, smelt furnaces, and the controlled cooling that produced steel.
He refused to marry her because she wore false teeth. Later his wife’s nightly toothache and neuralgia kept him awake, and he wished he had married her instead.
A farmer declines to hire a man, citing incessant barbed wire fences that prevent him from getting any rest. The exchange highlights tensions over fencing practices and agricultural labor.
A newspaper quip notes the box office shows the house half full, the stage manager a little more than half, and the leading comedian full to overflowing, highlighting a crowded night.
A haunted studio tale recounts Hogarth hearing a voice like Fielding asking to be painted. Fielding appears, urges completion within a quarter hour, Hogarth sketches the phantom, and Garrick later confirms the impersonation after repeating the scene. Garrick admits a servant kept his secret before death.
A society lady deceives a wealthy lover about a German plan while a candy loving boy proclaims he could lick a big candy man. In Jersey a grocer confesses debt troubles to his clerk who then steals $2000 and leaves a note saying creditors will hardly recover any money. The clerk intends to skip town as the grocer faces failure.
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