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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1880
Page
1
The notice presents professional cards for GT Alexander and Bower Co of Bellefonte Pennsylvania. It lists names M Bower and offers satisfaction guaranteed for services.
A poetic scene of August weather as lovers wander under azure skies. Locusts hum and asters glow along a sunlit path while cardinal flowers blaze. The blithe wind brings free gladness and the earth seems to laugh at life’s pure joy.
Miss Illiane Howell sits on a Pebble House porch in an autumn tableau as Ada Warden and Linda Lees tease her of a theft tale. Herbert Moore seizes a chance to charm Illiane with a romantic recollection at a theatre, ending with a promised walk along the river.
A miner named Jack Richards allegedly caused a deadly mine collapse at a Delaware and Hudson mine near Carbondale in 1840 by whistling. Seventeen miners and a car horse were buried. Alexander Boyden, superintendent, crawled through debris to reach them and saved most, hauling Richards’ body out. Richards left a crippled sister who died the next day. Three others, including the narrator’s brother and twelve miners, were never found. The tale warns against whistling in mines.
Collection of maxims on financial prudence and virtue. Emphasizes avoiding risk, living within means, insuring well, and avoiding debt. Promotes caution in speculation, timely repayment, patient earnings, and steady savings. Encourages hard work and self reliance but warns against idleness and haste to riches.
A discussion notes Dawkins view that Europe joined Africa in the early tertiary, with river drift hunters in France Italy Spain Greece and North Africa and in India, leading to cave men higher than river drift hunters yet inferior to later farmers and merchants. It mentions their artifacts and lack of domesticated animals and burial, plus a comparison to Esquimaux and a predicted rise in knowledge. It also recounts a tale of twin elms on Stiles Hill in Southbury Conn planted by two girls and ever more poignant after one died, and a Hartford 1838 scene where General Pratt charged a trio creating a Jackson crowd uproar, ending with Old Hickory’s amused smile.
A maxim about focus warns that pursuing two targets at once leads to failure on both aims. It emphasizes commitment and steady effort to complete a single task successfully.
The text describes imitative manias where people copy others actions such as dancing in Germany or mewing like cats in a convent. It notes curiosity mania surrounding notable individuals like John Law, whose notoriety drew crowds in Paris and London, illustrating public impulse to see famous figures.
The article traces silk origins to Huang ti’s era and the mulberry grove, notes silk worms in royal gardens, and charts its spread from China to Greece, Italy, and France. It highlights satin's evolving meaning and credits Octavio Mai with discovering lustre through a serendipitous silk experiment.
The article traces the cultural role of the fan across eras and nations. It notes first Indy 8i as a fan bearer, then recounts Chinese and Japanese uses, Greek and Roman feather fans, Catherine de Medici introducing the folding fan in France, English royal fashion, Elizabethan diamond fans, Mexican and Spanish traditions, and a Japanese fan-based execution practice.
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