Local notes and bargains in Bellefonte and Millheim
Bellefonte and Millheim pages report store bargains at the Journal store Lewin Philadelphia Branch and new stock from Spigelmeyer at Whitmer Co. Odd Fellows Hall offers spring goods while a drama in Millheim celebrates Young America with a Town Hall program. The issue notes medical, postal, and church items plus a school report and local reform call to improve civic effort.
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Philadelphia
Bellefonte
Millheim
G. R. Spigelmeyer
Whitmer & Co
Spring Mills
Old Oil Town Tales from Franklin Pa in March Eighty One
A reader letter from Franklin Pa dated March 11 81 describes oil field life near Petroleum Centre and Titusville. It details Odd Fellows founder Adam Holiday claims and local lore about Holidaysburg Johnstown and the oil boom with many wells 20 erected since yesterday. It notes night work shifts pipes and pumps with torpedo explosions and river accidents near Oil City and Tionesta plus a Building and Loan premium sale.
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Petroleum Centre
Adam Holiday
Order of Odd Fellows
Layfayette Lodge
No. 18
Philadelphia
Oil City
Derrick
Holiday
Blaircounty
Holidaysburg
Oll Grentlenan
England
John
Johnstown
Oae
Titusville
Go West Or Stay Home Brush News Sees Local Plans
Jacob Shultz buys Henry Suull farm at sixty five dollars per acre. Hall and Carlin plan to open a furniture store in East Rebersburg. Samuel Losed plans a new house near the town east terminus. Scarlet fever rumored in the community. Shafer and wife return from western states tour.
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Jacob Shultz
Henry Suull
Ellis
Shafer
Messrs
Hall &Carlin
East Rebersburg
Samuel Loseds
Rebersburg
Punishment in North Carolina Ends in Tragedy After Hog Theft
A Black man helped a neighbor butcher a hog and attempted to steal it. While crossing a fence he balanced the carcass on the rail and was caught by a gambrel stick. Both men were later found dead suspended over the fence, one dead.
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North Carolina
Darkey
Hawk Captures Snake in Desert Skirmish
A hawk swoops on a camelback rock where four Fattlesnake coils for warmth and attack. The raptor seizes the rattled neck, lifts into the air, and consumes the snake after a brief aerial struggle in a remote Arizona scene. The piece shifts to news of the New Bible translation, noting England has produced 000 copies and New York prepares import-ready stock, with editions bound in cloth and priced around 60 cents to $1.2.
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Arizona Globe Chronicle
England
New York City
Russia
Turkey
Morocco
Weise
Merican Book Exchange
Her
Yorks
Chicago Lumbermen Exchange Annual Meeting Spotlight
The Chicago Lumbermen's Exchange held its annual meeting. The President warned that ongoing rapid lumber depletion could exhaust the nation's vast pine forests within twenty years. Port receipts for all lumber in 1880 totaled 1.664 billion feet.
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CuicaGeo
Chicago Lumbermen’s Exchange
New Treatment Promises Quick Recovery for Chronic Ailments
An advertisement touts “The Golden Elixir of Life” offering immediate relief for consumption bronchitis asthma and various disorders. It claims rapid weight gain and restoration of strength in severe cases and urges readers to write to B. B. Dispensary in Berrien Springs Michigan for particulars.
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Berrien Springs
Mich
U. S
Canadia
Agia
B.S
Estate of Samuel Gramsey Trustee Seeks Farmland Timberland
March 29 trust action for Miles township seeks sale or management of a farmed 282 acre tract and 218 acres of timberland. Samuel Gramsey named trustee outlines property holdings and fiduciary duties.
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Samuel Gramsey
Miles Township
Obituaries At Logan Mills and Rosecrans in 1881
At Logan Mills Clinton county Pa miner va Jane wife of Janes Cooney daughter of Joel ar of sieterie and membranous croup February 26 1881 aged 21 years 11 months and 24 days At Rosecrans March 2 1881 Elizabeth wife of Lincoln Confer aged 21 years
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Logan Mills
Clinton County
Minerva Jane
Janes Cooney
Joel Ar
Rosecrans
Elizabeth
Lincoln Confer
Corrected Wheat and Farm Produce Prices Listing
Corrected every Wednesday by and Musser notes prices for wheat No 1 and No 2 corn oats buckwheat flour bran and short cut salt plaster and dried fruits with multiple misspelled entries. The fragmentary OCR shows a price catalog style typical of agricultural exchange listings from a historical newspaper.
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Musser
Sebéstlecsaeceses Anebes
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Elizabeth Wise
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Millheim PA
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Main Street
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Portland, Maine
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Washington, D. C
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Afl Ite
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Europe
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