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Millheim Journal in Millheim, Pennsylvania
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1886
Page
1
At One Soldier's Grave a Quiet Northern Walk
A traveler meets a graveyard beside a decayed Quaker meeting house on a quiet northern road. A boy decorates Captain Rathbone's grave as an elderly widow recalls her sons Willis and Wilbur, their Civil War split, death, forgiveness, and a hope for lasting peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missis Gilman
Capt. Rathbone
Wilbur Ratilbone
Co. G
Wilbur Rathbone
Willis
Wilbur
Society of Friends
Georgia
Longstreet
Stone
Chickamauga
Leannot
Percy Hastings Painter of the Mouth Dies
Percy W. Hastings of Lunenburg Mass, famed for artistic achievement after paralysis below the neck, died. A trapeze fall in Ashburnham in 1874 left him unable to move lower than the neck but inspired painting with a mouth-held pen and an easel near his chair. He painted watercolors of flowers, with paintings selling for several dollars, highlighting a pioneering example of mouth-driven art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy W. Hastings
Lunenburg
Mass
Ashburnham
Percy Hastings
Percy
Wit Saved Him in Virginia Sheep Incident
A Confederate guards detail near Charleston Virginia confronted a private caught with a sheep. He claimed he killed the animal after the sheep bleated at him while he sang the Star Spangled Banner. The colonel ordered him to proceed, impressed by the soldier’s quick wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Allen F. Hall
Grand Army Sentinel
Miracle Cure Forces Orthodox Switch in Russia
An officer in the Russian army in Siberia fell ill with fever and lapsed into delirium. A Lutheran patient had an orthodox priest administer communion and extreme unction, then recovered. The orthodox church declared him forever after as orthodox, despite his prior Lutheran faith, and the czar could not alter church regulations. The incident underscores the church’s power to compel religious conformity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
St Petersburg
No Man Is Great in All Things Yet Finds A Use
A London linen store story shows a blunt salesman failed at selling but found worth in accounting. The youth begged to try something else and was placed in the counting room where his talent for figures quickly emerged. He rose to head cashier and became a renowned accountant nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katie
London
What Made Him Feel So Bad
A humorous meeting scene centers on John who returns home drunk or sober and a wife chides him for past nights of missteps. The dialogue reveals his pattern and guilt as the meeting adjourns with him crying and acknowledging two sober nights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Four Children Perrish in a Burning Building
Akron Ohio May 19 The home of widow Mrs Mooney three miles north of Akron burned just before midnight killing four children aged 12 to 4. Mrs Mooney and her brother in law Lawrence Mooney escaped with a baby and later tried to rescue the others but were driven back. Lawrence may die from burns and the family mourns as the fire from an overheated stove leaves only insurance and a small plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Lawrence Mooney
Best Seasons for Planting in the Garden
The piece discusses optimal planting times for crops like potatoes corn rutabagas mangold beets beans and peas, noting May as favorable for many crops and June or July as acceptable for others. It explains row spacing drill method bean seeding densities and seed per acre requirements drawn from American Agriculturist May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mangold Wurzels
Secrets of a secret society go awry
Mrs Minks and Mrs Finks exchange gossip about a lodge ritual involving alcohol. One woman peeks at her husband in a private room and witnesses an “awfulest ghastliest” light from an alcohol lamp with a salt‑on‑the wick trick, leaving them believing the initiation is shocking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Minks
Mrs Finks
Mrs. Finks
Household Tension in Kitchen Over Cleanliness
A housewife scolds her colored cook for cleanliness while the cook retorts with blunt humor about cooking and boundaries. The exchange highlights class and race tensions in domestic work with sharp, comic edge.
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D. Geo. L. Lee
D. Deininger
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Journal Office
Penn St
W J. Springer
Millheim Banking House
Gus L. Springer
Main & North Streets
Millheim
Jno
H. Orvis
C.M. Bower
Ellis L. Orvis
Bower & Orvis
Attorneys-at-Law
Bellefonte, PA
Woodings Building
D. H. Hastings
W. F. Reeder
Astings & Reeder
Allegheny Street
Yocum & Hastings
J C. Meyer
Bellefonte PA
Hoy
W. C. Heinle
Centre County
J A. Beaver
J. W. Gephart
Baeeven
Gephart
Alleghany Street
High Street
Rockerhoff
Allegheny ST
C. G. McMillen
Woummins
Bishop Street
Emanuel Brown
Main and
Jay Streets
Lock Haven
Woods Caldwell
Lam
Ebbon Oliver
Wit
Perrish
Jane
Pusson
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