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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1880
Page
1
Professional cards listing T. Alexander c. M Kowel LEXANDER & BOWER Attorneys at Law Bellefonte PA with office in Garman's building and B Linn with office on Allegheny Street.
A. Walter listed as cashier on Main Street in Millheim Pennsylvania. Harter assures satisfaction guaranteed.
Poem contrasts patient small efforts with grand outcomes. Coral workers build islands slowly while humans endure tasks day by day. Encourages perseverance and steady progress, citing Rome was not built in a day and nature’s quiet labor.
Lillian Ames, an English heiress, faces a love triangle with Lord Oscar Dering after learning a cousin may still be alive and that the title and estate could be at stake. Edith Loring urges Lillian to hold firm while a hidden passion threatens their bond as Oscar seeks reconciliation.
Edith and Oscar Dering confront past loves as a courtship unfolds amid illness and a social gathering at Ames court. A hunter’s shot and a life saved at Niagara Falls test courage, jealousy, and destiny as Edith accepts marriage to Dering while recalling a past engagement and a dramatic rescue gone wrong.
One year ago Mr Strein bought land near Westport with a vast cave and a spring. Fish culturist Mr Annin explored six hundred feet underground to a three foot cataract then another waterfall. Indian relics nearby suggest historical use as a sepulchre and medicine waters. Annin sent three thousand trout eggs from Caledonia creek and the hatch succeeded.
About six months ago a parrot from the Sisters of St. Boniface Convent vanished and was found in the possession of Pierre Mallet in New Orleans. The sisters sue in the Second Justice's Court for one hundred dollars their third of the property claiming ownership. The bird, fluent in German, is to be brought to court to identify its rightful owner by a sign. If identified, it will testify, promising an amusing courtroom moment.
The article notes a dramatic rise in steamship size and power since 1860. It compares 350 foot, 45 foot, 3500 ton ships of 20 years prior with modern liners from White Star Inman Cunard and Guion, headed for New York, plus looming giants like Servia and City of Rome. It also surveys royal palaces and public access to royal parks, tracing shifting residences and costs.
A West Virginia tale recalls Van Bibber pursued by Indians who corner him on a high river rock near Kanawha Falls. He leaps into the river as arrows fly and his wife, with their babe, fights for his rescue, guiding a skiff and lifting him to safety as the rock bears his name to this day.
A court confrontation with a nearly seven foot tall man ends when the judge, exasperated by drunken behavior, releases the prisoner warning him he can go. The prisoner protests as Bijah escorts him out, calling to assert his rights.
The French government awarded a military medal to Madile Dodu, a telegraph office worker in Pithiviers during 1870. When German troops occupied the town in November, Dodu secretly tapped their lines and relayed critical intelligence to the sub prefect and French command. A German telegram to Prince Frederick Charles was intercepted, enabling a French corps to retreat. The Prussians only learned of the interception near the armistice.
A playful list of improbable desires and paradoxes in a humorous tone. It riffs on idealized cures, flawless people, perfect tools, and satire of media, editors, doctors, and performers, ending with a wry aphorism about desire and restraint.
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