17 Mar 1881
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1881
Page
1
A. Walter listed as cashier and Harter as auctioneer in Rebersburg Pennsylvania with a satisfaction guaranteed promise. The compact notice highlights staff roles and ensures consumer confidence for bidders and buyers.
A moral exhortation urges a man to resist sinful passions. It warns of ruin from indulgence and praises constant effort to reform. The piece frames conscience, liberty, and inner struggle as the path to reclaiming body and soul. It emphasizes perseverance and eventual freedom through steadfast resistance.
Miss Jessie Conrad pursues Harry Hazelton at Lyndehurst, using wit and charm to win his heart during a ball and garden words. Hazelton declares love, Jessie yields, and the neighborhood learns he is the Lyndehurst heir, Harry Hazelton, after years apart.
The article threads a hunting tale of bears raiding ground nests and yellow jackets, a New York police gag with Thothmes Obelisk, a girl Patty and Honeysuckle Hall charity, and a note on Russia’s beard tax shaping aristocratic fashion.
In Detroit Bickles learns his wife’s mood turns to past regrets and future sighs. A visitor offers a thousand dollars to see her, name unknown, with dialogue hinting at a blind man and a cryptic clue about Lucas Wentwing.
A Pacific Mail captain boasted of a five foot sawfish beak with twenty teeth per side captured at a San Blas tide marsh. He claimed sawfish jab whales to damage engines, a tale the reporter weighed for credibility as the 20 foot fish was stranded there.
A rosy pink awakens a garden fairy named Heart's Content who and helps a sick girl named Flora. Helen loves the flower, kisses it, and shares its magic with Flora as her mother urges kindness and care. The tale ends on a cheerful note of healing and happiness.
Two dogs on Fourth street near Michigan avenue in Detroit fought as a crowd of about fifty gathered. A ministerial figure urged a milk dealer to drive through the animals, knocking them aside. sixteen gallons of milk spilled as horse and sleigh dragged into the snow. The milkman fled noting a man in a plug hat heading toward City Hall at high speed.
A Detroit area railroad asks a cow owner to settle a Teal cow damage claim after a train ran over the animal near the Grand Trunk junction. The owner claims various values from 15 to 70 dollars, finally agreeing on 25 dollars after discussion and honesty about the cow’s true value.
The article describes Russian winter life with double windows and warm stoves, noting how houses stay dry and interiors warm. It details layered clothing for outdoors, frequent nose care against frost, and the dangers of sleigh rides for various social classes. It contrasts aristocratic sleighing with working class warming habits and mentions mujiks sleeping on stoves.
A historical column describes Chinese marriage customs with dowry absence for brides and arrangements made by agents. It notes the betrothal as a paid purchase by the husband or his kin, the bride presented to the husband unseen until the wedding day, and the bridegroom deciding by the hidden chair test. It mentions trousseau items and family rights to rurbbs money.
A Detroit grocer played a prank on a new clerk by stealing twelve dressed chickens and hanging them at the back door to scare him. The clerk was blamed and told to pay, but the chickens vanished when the grocer retrieved them, as a thief in the alley had taken the birds to last the week.
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