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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1882
Page
1
Poem fragment contemplates the fading of youth as time advances into manhood. It contrasts gains from experience with the saudade for youthful vitality, noting beauty faded from earth and air and the lasting ache of vanished youth.
Elsie and Charlie sneak out at midnight to join a fisher boy at Highbeach. They sail to a rock and help haul a lobster trap while sharing a treasure hunt and a bold plan aboard the small boat under starlit skies.
The First Auditor of the Treasury released an annual year end report showing 7193 receipts accounts totaling $973,687,471.39 and 20802 disbursement accounts totaling $1,025,640,807.75. Bond accounts numbered 1155, with total accounts 29,150 and total certified value $1,99929 279.14. The year over year rise was 922 accounts and $120,768,062.39 in value.
A traveling drummer’s warning of a coming cyclone contrasts with a swashbuckling pirate capture of the schooner Transit off Nicaragua. Captain Thompson frees his crew, captures the six Spaniard pirates, and sails to Bluefields for arrest. The piece then shifts to a detailed look at daily life in Mexican homes with coffee, breakfast, siesta, and evening entertainments. oysters recur as favored fare among journalists and statesmen.
A sequence depicts each month by a figure performing a task: January displays two heads with meats for a banquet, February shows a man by a fire with one shoe removed, March has a girl hoeing in a paled garden, April a man ploughing, May a bathing girl with a tree bough, June a man chopping wood, July a man with a scythe, August a girl with a sickle, September a man gathering grapes, October a man on a ladder gathering apples, November a man chopping large trunks with bare trees in the background, and December a man preparing to strike an animal while a boy holds its head back.
Reports describe fossil prints in rock near Dayton and El Dorado canyon, with references to Stewart and mammoth horse tracks. The Nevada terrain shows ancient lake bottom features, petrified logs from Spring Valley and a Carson River flood, plus a large petrified wood bed and bones found in canyon walls.
The piece discusses English and French oyster supply, domestic American superiority, and threats to oysters including starfish prawns crabs and Portuguese rivals. It notes Virginia seed oysters at 25 cents a bushel and potential profits, and criticizes cross nets and overharvesting affecting prices.
A Detroit shopper in a hardware store pursues coal stoves for winter. She receives a lengthy sales pitch about Michigan base-burners and nickel plating before learning the shop no longer carries stoves, ending with a disappointed glance at available models.
In May families display a fish symbol for newborn boys with a May fifth festival of gifts and clothing, while girls born in March celebrate with abundant dolls and warrior toys on the third day of the third month. Elaborate displays show pride in both genders, with early fish-lanterns visible in late April.
A humorous sketch describes the razor back hog as a Swiss cottage shaped creature living on acorns and roots, aiding farmers and neighbors, and crossing with rail stock to become a Berkshire like hog. It notes the strange breed and a joke about shifting to railroad train crossbreeding.
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