10 Mar 1881
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1881
Page
1
A verse urging resilience and dignity through hardship and treachery. It counsels holding one's head high regardless of winds or deceit, stressing labor, honesty, and self-reliance as paths to a better dawn. The poem emphasizes courage, perseverance, and steadfast character across life’s weather.
Madeline Delanney goes to live with her aunt Mrs. Chathard after her father’s death. She clashes with the reserved, aging invalid and meets her cousin Frederic, a gentlemanly but reticent suitor, as she adapts to the lonely seaside mansion and unresolved tensions.
In Paris a Marquis wife faces a helmeted confinement after a flirtation scandal at R Chateau. A helmeted Parisian prisoner clings to life as her husband ignores the siege while a duel ends fatally between two brothers in Saint Denis over a cook Adele Vergers.
Forest country saw over two hundred deer killed during the past season. The notes record Boston’s original area at 783 acres and its present territory at 23661, with wildlife impact noted in Forest country.
A New York office holder in front of St. Pauls recalls prior requests from a mendicant for money to reach Buffalo to bury a wife to pay rent and for medicine. The two exchange blunt truth and humor as the man grants ten cents for honesty. The Texas pecan crop is also noted as unprecedented.
The account links violent anger to fatal outcomes among rulers and notable men. Nerva, Valentinian, Tourtelle, John Hunter, and Charles VI are cited as examples of anger triggering vascular collapse, convulsions, or madness. The text notes lasting harm from prolonged fits and cites medical observations.
The proposal would bring the western terminus of the Euphrates Valley Railway from Alexandretta to Haifa. The route faces steep grades at the Jordan Valley and Esdraelon Plain, rising 250 feet in 15 miles then dropping 900 feet in the next 15 miles before climbing to the Yarmuk highlands and onward to Damascus and Aleppo.
A Mexican writer describes Posadas nine-night Christmas pageants ending at midnight mass and Christmas day. Wax figures, tremulous gates, litany songs, a Bethlehem nativity, and a final street olla game bring family and servant participation, music, dancing, and mixed reactions from outsiders.
The year saw 7207 miles of new US railways, one third more than 1879 and nearly three times 1878, with $145 million invested. Critics warn such lines may divert earnings from established roads, depress stock values, and withdraw capital from trade, risking years of low profits and stalled growth as emigration shifts to new regions.
A correspondent describes Jerusalem gates: Jaffa, Damascus, St Stephen, and David gates open in each wall with two large doors and a Needle's Eye wicket. The piece notes four gates are open while four are walled up, and compares ancient defenses to modern artillery.
A Detroit bound passenger boards the morning train to Plymouth and jokes about leaving items at home. She recalls packing for two weeks and confirms the house is in order but fears she may have left a key detail behind, prompting a playful exchange about spectacles towels and kitchen items.
The yak is praised for stamina and usefulness akin to the reindeer and camel. It yields rich milk and fur, is sure-footed, and helps create highways through snow with coordinated grazing and shifting snow as it climbs. It survives on mountain slopes year round and retreats to high cold areas in summer.
The record notes Wisconsin in 1851 had ten miles of railroad and by now 3,133 miles. It also mentions Lancaster boasting 76 substantial tobacco warehouses as a historical point of commerce.
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