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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1880
Page
1
Local ad promotes a specialty shop next to the Journal Book Store in Rebersburg Pennsylvania run by ee Harter offering satisfaction guaranteed services or products.
A tender lyrical voyage describes a couple’s arduous journey toward a hopeful home. The speaker consoles a weary beloved, promises divine light and reunion, and emphasizes patience and faith as burdensomeness yields to heavenly rest. The poem frames hardship, faith, and promise as a shared pilgrimage toward home.
In 1834 off Galway a British war brig captures a smuggling crew. Captain Dracul sentences the old smuggler to death with a whipping while his boy Robert Kintock pleads for mercy. The old man dies, and the boy vows revenge as a thunderstorm erupts.
A brig battles a gale near Ballymore's Craig with Robert Kintock at the helm as the wreck nears a hidden harbor. After a dramatic rescue and chase, the crew perishes and Robert discovers the captain was the murderer of his father, avenging him at dawn.
A Comstocker tells the barber to spare a long front lock called the family rudder. He explains the lock guides his wife and keeps the home in order, preventing him from becoming unmanageable if cut off. The barber relents, noting its role in steering the household.
A widow in 1875 endures a devastating loss as her husband dies suddenly after thirty years of affection. She lives in a detached house with a large garden and veranda. One December night she hears a strange moan from her bedroom and trembles at the unsettling sound.
A farmer travels eleven miles through mud to seek guidance from Bijah the janitor on farming matters. Bijah prescribes June for planting root beer, an eighth pitch for cow sheds, and confirms onions as a crop and product, ending the audience with the closing remark.
Frank Lamcka, a steel works employee at Harrisburg, plunged approximately sixty five feet into a hot furnace stack while guiding water. He survived with severe facial injuries and no broken bones, an astonishing escape amid initial panic among workers.
The guide extols snipe as inexhaustible on small grounds and offers tactics for hunting. It notes birds rise with the wind, recommends wide detours, and describes favorable weather, ground depressions, and wind-driven behavior. Practical advice covers apparel for spring and fall, movement to stay warm, and caution against long rests.
Twain describes a bleak cold dawn in an Alpine dawn observing sunrise through candlelight at a remote hotel. He and Harris wait as the sun rises over snowy peaks, joking that the hotel profits from shifting light and that they have mistaken the sunset for sunrise.
Eliza Duke accused her husband John of roughing her. He pleaded guilty in Court of Special Sessions claiming she struck him with a clothes-pole. A bloodstained shirt front and a club claim were disputed, and a jurist remembered a prior wedding on Sixteenth Street. John received a one day sentence.
Observations describe western American adobe towns, circular sun temple towers, and cliff dwellings carved into canyon walls. The article notes secret rock passages, enduring cedar beams, and scattered pottery while pondering the civilization of a prehistoric mountain people.
Two bottle nosed sea elephant pups captured by Captain Peters off the Mexican coast about seven hundred miles south of Santa Clara and shown in the city. They weigh about eight hundred pounds each, are gentle and playful, and attract curiosity as there have been no similar creatures seen locally.
Mr Smiley revels in a sunlit morning and an appetite for coffee. A heated exchange about codfish skin and a ridiculous idea triggers Mrs Smiley and Sister Maria. The outburst ends with Mr Smiley storming from the house breakfastless and a wreck in town.
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