Cutting a Specialty Shop Next Door to Journal Book Store
Advertising fragment notes a millheim PA shop next to Journal Book Store with Hart er Banking Co and A Walter cashier. Financial ad promises satisfaction guaranteed.
31 Mar 1881
Page 1
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1881
Page
1
Advertising fragment notes a millheim PA shop next to Journal Book Store with Hart er Banking Co and A Walter cashier. Financial ad promises satisfaction guaranteed.
The poem imagines nature and people mourning a departed bard. Streams, woods, and winds join the laments, though the speaker clarifies sentience lies with the memories of those long forgotten who lived in the poet’s songs. The Maid, phantom Knight, and feudal Chief all fade as the Minstrel’s harp falls silent.
A reminiscence of doctors gathering after a Hippocratic Medical Society meeting. Dr. Gilen Capps chairs as various surgeons discuss how young physicians start, with a tale of Perc y Topham and a misread delirium tremens case amid lively banter and reflections on patient trust.
A long excerpt recounts a physician’s tense debut with a dangerous patient, a comic horse racing mishap, and a ribald tale from Bill Burton’s ranch. It shifts to Irish history describing torched signals in 1880 Galway Mayo and earlier infernal lights in 1832 and 1867, debating whether such flames signaled rebellion or trial runs.
A Washington writer recalls long forgotten guards and oddities around the capital. Sentries at the Sew ard house and a block house near Georgetown lingered after duties ended. A crypt under the capitol and a gray public officer guarding it reveal neglect of historic provisions and expenses.
The article describes Wapoos assigning five deer each and detailing harnessing methods. It notes the deer collars, leather reins, and steering signals, with cautions about handling wild deer. It compares Lapland and Samoyede practices, noting Samoyedes tame deer for domestic use.
The article details Chinese tanning processes with washing, steaming, stretching, and drying to color leather, plus glue from offal and drying methods. It notes the Schdiers Orphan School of Pennsylvania houses about 2600 pupils, with annual maintenance and education costs estimated at $860,000 funded by the state.
A horse buyer recounts a dodgy sale scam seen in a New York stable. A slick seller uses two buyers to inflate prices then disappears with the horse leaving others to chase a phantom Windsor buyer. The tale warns of deceptive tactics in horse trading.
A bald headed man balks at buying a hair growth remedy after a clerk touts a six week guarantee. The man recalls his wife pulling out his growing hair and mocks the product while the clerk suggests a different gift.
A long account traces Wade Sipple alias Pierce and William Gray from early days as a famed hotel thief to decades of petty crimes. He survived a Natchez escape, endured prison terms, and died of apoplexy in Potter's Field after a life of burglary, conning, and flight.
In a neighboring county a dramatic stage journey unfolds with a celebrated actor couple from the Morris House. A dark stormy night, muffled passengers, restless horses, and a halt when a wheel hits a stump frame a tense scene on the road. The man frees himself to speak with the startled driver.
A historic account describes Mr Dorlon’s terrapin farm at Cellar Point on Muogile bay’s western shore. The three acre fenced parcel uses canals to supply water and sunning beds for thousands of terrapins. Expansion plans include purchasing larvae and shellfish with seasonal income from furred and fatted terrapins, with markets in New York.
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