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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1887
Page
4
At ten o'clock Wednesday night a gas pipe bomb nearly two feet long with a fuse attached was found at St Joseph's Orphan Asylum in Cummingsville. The fuse was cut and police took possession of the device.
London reports William OBrien grows weaker under prison treatment. Friends fear his death fits his consumptive family background. He vows to reject prison clothing. Irish unrest rises as rent reductions in Ulster face resistance. Chamberlain speech in New York draws favorable commentary. Wilmington gunning party meets tragedy near Kirkwood when a gun explodes killing Thomas J. Brown and injuring John Lefevre.
Mr. Thomas Meehan reports on the Muir glacier in Alaska noting a 100 foot wide torrent beneath it four feet deep that flows year round. He describes lake, rapids and waterfalls in great ice sheets and that melting proceeds in sunlight but slows in shade.
A dialogue notes that limiting immigration would hinder municipal officers and the city’s functioning, reflecting concerns about urban governance and labor impacts in New York.
In early 1900s Georgia a Franklin College doctor handles a prankster student named Bob who helped plunder the poultry yard. The doctor chooses a severe yet fatherly punishment by inviting Bob to supper and serving the stolen chickens, turning a misconduct lesson into a memorable, almost poignant, moral.
A young wife tells her husband she plans to interview the post office superintendent for advice on keeping a habitually late husband punctual. The husband blushes and feigns interest as a lodge member is absent that night.
A Georgia paper reports Mr Wheeler of Hancock County cut a watermelon that opened to reveal a distinct W on both halves. The story invokes the idea that it is one of the melons that will W up.
A Philadelphia physician wears shoes made from the skin of Black cadavers dissected in a medical college. The piece details tanning at Womelsdorf, shoemaking in Philadelphia, and similar grisly memorabilia among students and society figures in the city. It notes the doctor defends the practice and cites reuse of human skin for various fashion items and tools while recalling frontier scenes in Colorado mining camps.
The Savage Way article extols nature based cures and laments modern reliance on medicines. Warner's Log Cabin Remedies markets pure vegetable preparations like Log Cabin Sarsaparilla and Log Cabin Cough and Consumption Remedy as safe, grandmotherly cures from past recipes.
ABridgeport correspondent defends shop girls as the hardworking backbone of society. The piece argues against fashionably elite views and praises shop girls and shop boys as the builders of good citizens, mothers, and sturdy families with honest employment and self respect. It cautions against elitist judgments and highlights the value of practical labor.
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