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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1880
Page
1
Advertisement notes a specialty shop next to Journal Book Store with banking services by Ees Banking Co. A. Walter cashier on Main Street and a claim of satisfaction guaranteed.
A reflective verse extols the rights of women to labor to love and to pray to weep and to comfort the afflicted The poem envisions guiding children comforting the widow and fatherless and brightening homes with kindness and faith.
Amos Talburton is believed to have married widow Bamford for money and was killed by pistol fire. Robbie Bamford is accused after Charley Bamford confesses, while Charley steps forward claiming responsibility for the murder. The tale follows the family's brutal discipline and a boyish act of violence that ends in tragedy.
In a grim tale of mistaken guilt a judge remands the prisoner while Robbie defends his brother Charley. Old servant John Willis dies revealing he killed his master by accident after misjudging a noise in the hall. Charley fled to sea and returned the day Robbie stood arraigned, restoring the family.
A travelogue notes Tyrolean dress varies by valley with women in vivid colors and jewelry while men wear leather breeches and hobnailed boots. Hats feature feather adornments and a porcelain pipe with a red or blue umbrella carried by both sexes. Even English travelers indulge in Edelweiss and feathered hats, as stated by Mr. Waring.
A narrator describes a lily of the valley adopting a sly scheme to dine at restaurants without paying. The con artist builds credit by dining at new places, then avoids payments through staged excuses, pocketing cash from guests at picnics and moving on to new proprietors. The piece ends noting jealousy deters warnings among peers in the trade.
A Viennese rooster defends its territory in a two-compartment hennery as a daily visitor, a woman, pets the hens. The bird attacks with spurs, blows, and neck grapples, leading to a ten minute struggle ending with the woman retreating and the rooster crowing in triumph.
A hungry old man with a dried herring on a line pleads for a quarter claiming four hours of fruitless fishing at the ferry wharf. He laments deceiving his wife with the tainted bait and contemplates returning home sober or drunk, revealing his moral appeal to the passerby.
Captain Catlin of the U S army, loss of a leg, details five years of pain linked to weather. Dr Mitchell notes storms correlate with neuralgia intensity and duration. winter quarters produce more pain than summer. Pacific-origin storms affect farther away, Atlantic storms milder. Rain not essential to pain.
A detailed catalogue of inn signs in London, listing scripts like The Good Samaritan and The Widow's Son, saints such as Andrew and George, signs of virtue and anchors, numerous historic figures from Newton to Nelson, and a wide array of flora and fauna motifs. The piece catalogs signs by categories including social, literary, classical, floral, zoological, and ethnological, noting hundreds of named entities and symbols.
Dr. Brehm proposes artificial sponge farming to salvage the sea’s best sponges. He creates seven thousand pieces from hundreds of specimens, towed to Socolizza Bay, attached to a framework, and lowered for growth. Fishermen attacked the setup at night, stealing two thousand sponges, while copper wire and stone mounting later aided attachment and growth.
A long assemblage of aphorisms on honesty, temperance, charity, and self control. The piece blends religious and secular counsel, urging prudent living, truthfulness, humility, and responsible action while warning against swearing and vanity. It muses on adversity, perseverance, education, and the dangers of gossip and misjudgment.
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