Bellefonte Office in Garman Building
In Bellefonte Pennsylvania the office relocates to the new Garman building with Jo B Linn listed among the occupants and associated parties.
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1880
Page
1
In Bellefonte Pennsylvania the office relocates to the new Garman building with Jo B Linn listed among the occupants and associated parties.
The text urges resolve to break from sorrow and pursue real labor with hand and heart. It links trust to peace and sees daily events as sanctifying, comparing conscience to a magnetic needle guiding reason as chart. It argues prayer, Bible reading, and meeting attendance as tools, warns sin harms both God and man, and calls laughter a scarce virtue amid care and hardship.
Poem extols mounted knights and war drums as heavenly signs but urges brave men to ride again. It celebrates deathless fame, steel, helm, and knightly duty, while dismissing tears and pleading for courage on the field.
Kathie boards a Boston bound train on a bright December morning. A handsome stranger slips his hand into her pocket, but the purse is later found in his pocket, leading to a humorous misreading and an eventual romance with Mr. Thorn as they renew acquaintance on the return journey.
A discussion of the hunting dog as a link between dogs and hyenas, its features and habits, followed by a warning on peach stone poisoning after a Paris case. The piece then profiles Basque people, their economy, governance, religion, and national identity, noting Constutions and regional pride.
The article describes a winter fishing operation on Chautauqua Lake New York with about twenty coops on the ice. Fishermen use dark boxes with bottom holes to lure fish by a weighted wooden fish and then drop a spear to the bottom to trap large catch. A trio of pickerel weighing 27 30 and 40 pounds were recorded the Monday before New Year.
A fragmented, humorous confession lists resolutions like avoiding chicken salad, quitting cigars, and living within income. The speaker toggles between commitments and doubts, joking that leap year and delayed changes will postpone firm pledges while poking fun at self discipline.
In Washington a Boston editor sought General McCook to discuss the Indian question. The general, after probing, offered to take the editor to Colorado and hinted at paying the editor’s widow a thousand dollars. The editor declined and no interview was written.
Westbound rider Jesse Lovely asks a local for the home of William Humphreys. The villager Squire Roberts claims ignorance and hints Humphreys lives forty miles away on Peter Creek, despite proximity to the Squire's own residence.
In late snow Sam Cook of Applegate with Andy Cook and J W Gilmore chased a large cinnamon bear on the Humbug range. The bear charged, shots failed, and Gilmore struck it with a tomahawk while Andy reloaded. Cook finally killed the bear with a neck shot after a tense struggle. The 400 plus pound animal proved a tough quarry.
Two young women traveling from Chicago to Dubuque ride the Illinois Central train and exploit palace car pricing. In Freeport the conductor quotes extra seats to Dubuque at one dollar, then thirty cents from Galena. After a playful bargain they ride to Dubuque in the costly style they sought, meeting friends at the depot.
The Basques, about 800000 strong with 130000 in France, inhabit Spain's Basque Provinces. They resist subjugation through centuries, maintaining distinct traits despite conquests. They are medium in size, vigorous, and agile with light gray eyes and dark complexions, celebrated for simple manners, fiery patriotism, and hospitable nature. Women are comely, strong, and often perform masculine work, with vivacity and graceful dress.
A customer asks for pins in a very large store while two lady clerks drift into a lengthy in-store dialogue. One clerk finally fetches a box but remains distracted, repeatedly referencing a couple’s movements and implying English pins are in separate supply or not readily offered.
A starving Indian trader and a dog share a bone as officials threaten to bounce the agent and turn him over to new authorities. The tale blends satire of religious groups and government, ending with the trader fleeing with the bone.
After ascending the Leaning Tower, visitors view the Campo Santo a vast cloistered cemetery built six centuries ago. Pisans brought soil from Mt Calvary to sanctify the ground and taught early Tuscan artists there. The walls display historical and sacred scenes, with engravings and bas-reliefs. tombstones pave the arcades, leaving a haunting impression at twilight.
A sharp complaint against a person obsessed with ventila tion. The piece depicts the ventilation zealot as disruptive and suffocating, haunting trains churches theaters offices and homes with relentless blasts of fresh air.
Charley Bennet recalls a moonlit apples theft with a haunted barn and a raven that croaked Ap ples. He ends by warning friends that stealing is wrong and that fear came from the imagination and a raven.
The annual list shows 281 deaths among about 17 000 Quakers, with infant mortality bardzo low. Among ages under one year there were 15 deaths, 1–5 years 18, 5–20 years 11, 20–30 years 19, 30–40 years 15, 40–50 years 11. Mortality rises with age, 50–60 24, 60–70 46, 70–80 65, 80–90 53, and 90–100 5.
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