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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1886
Page
1
Violet Lorrimer, once thought dead by her mother, returns as a clairvoyant who reveals a family secret. She foresees the missing daughter as a widow in poverty yet forgiven, leading to a tearful reunion with Mrs. Lorrimer in the Fifth Avenue mansion.
In a New York Observer piece W M F R notes that while educated speakers of English in the U S and England share a language, common words and senses differ for the masses. He contrasts barbershops signs and transport terms and recounts a Hampstead Heath cab ride with a Bow bells native. The English voice is described as fuller and gentler than American speech.
Humorous anecdotes recount clerical mispronunciations and slips from a parish clerk and others. The pieces feature misused terms like lien and officiate, a mistaken blame of baboon for bassoon, and a noted seller promoting a flour brand Fisher's mill Penn Hall as the best roller flour at Kauffman’s store.
In Albuquerque a ranchman named Shy, wounded yet undaunted, defended his rock shelter from a siege by Apaches. His wife and boy hid as bullets ripped walls. Shy fired from cover, drove attackers away, while his wife toiled toward help and his son was wounded.
A solicitor presses his client with a blunt question about guilt. The client retorts that hiring the lawyer implies innocence cannot be assumed.
An English magistrate records include the Paris police under M. de Sartine who foiled murders by precise intelligence. Tales recount a Bordeaux merchant spared by staged robbery and four concealed officers who seized the assailants. Joseph II admires French policing after a delinquent is found in Paris as described by Sartine.
A travelling man shares a near fatal incident with a railway frog that trapped his booted foot as a train backed down. He escaped injury by twisting away before wheels passed, though his foot and leg were badly crushed. Other workers recall similar accidents and warn that frogs on tracks are treacherous.
In a Nip and Tuck saloon a loosely dressed man bets fifty dollars he can extinguish a candle twelve feet away. He succeeds at once, pockets the money, then leaves. Patrons wonder who the man is, and learn he is believed to be an Indiana congressman who tours fairs and wins bets by blowing out lung testers.
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