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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1885
Page
4
A Washington correspondent recalls a scene in a Capital grocery where a nouveau riche woman in velvet and sealskin asserts status by demanding service as an old line Washingtonian and a clerical error triggers a display of class disdain. The contrast ends with the newer entrant leaving in a finer carriage, while the older socialite shows quiet judgment.
In Brooklin a husband, William Fox, threatened to kill his wife and child, then was struck by his wife Julia Fox with an axe during a violent confrontation. He later died from five head wounds while the two year old Georgie suffered severe burns from scalding oatmeal.
A husband, drunk and unaware, injures his wife and child and tells the doctor he is to blame. He is committed to jail as the child is sent to St Catherine's hospital and Fox remains in critical condition. The wife is held to await the outcome while neighbors show sympathy.
An advertisement promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as relief for teething pain and related ailments. It claims quick easing of distress, includes cures for dysentery, diarrhoea, wind colic, and gum inflammation, and notes the product is pleasant tasting and widely available for 25 cents a bottle.
A Wall Street anecdote recounts a man who made $10,000 then planned marriage to a upstate girl in December. He boasts of unloading Texas Pacific on the bride’s father at 48, later facing a stern note when the price jumps to 55. The father’s intervention leaves the suitor facing a $20,000 stake and a tougher in-law dynamic.
The article explains opera glasses magnify from two and a half to five times, moving a forty foot distance to eight to sixteen feet. It offers simple tests to estimate magnification by comparing wall card distances through one barrel with the opposite eye and notes many theater field glasses range six to nine times the eye.
A sale notice itemizes firearms including breech loaders from 1.00 to 10.00, double barrel shotguns from 13.00 to 35.00, revolvers from 1.00, Winchester rifles Model 73 and 76 priced at 17.00 and 18.00, muzzle loaders from 2.50 to 5.50. The listing highlights early 20th century gun prices and varieties.
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