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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1887
Page
1
Fragmentary legal notice discusses publisher actions for unpaid subscriptions. It mentions subscriber defaults, delivery to former addresses, and continued responsibility until disconnection. The text is garbled but centers on arrears measures and notice procedures.
Polly Rutherford abstains from pearls after learning her grandfather's failure. She uses the inheritance to start Polly-wolly-winkum bakery turning out biscuits and teaching cooking to rich girls while helping poor peers. A court challenge to her honesty surfaces, but she plans to hire Mr. McIlwaine to defend her.
A Penn Avenue car ride ends with a rider attempting to shortchange the conductor who, after four free trips, accumulates pennies as payment. The rider returns with a counterfeit twenty, which the conductor inspects to reveal a queer bill. The scheme unfolds as the conspirator watches the conductor’s reaction.
The Postoffice Department announces color and design updates for adhesive stamps and stamped envelopes. Two cent stamps switch from red to green while three cent stamps move from green to vermilion. envelopes change two cent red to green and four cent green to carmine, five cent brown to dark blue, thirty cent black to brown, ninety cent carmine to purple, with unchanged designs and re engraved heads. The aim is color alignment between envelopes and stamps.
The piece notes deep prejudice against Hessian troops sent by England to subdue the colonies, despite their war prowess. It cites an 12,700 Hessians plus three artillery corps contracted by England with the Landgrave of Hesse, who allegedly fraudulently claimed full pay for the number, plus 5,723 Brunswickers used by England in the revolution.
A Newton Missouri letter reports Matthias Splitlog a half Cayuga Wyandotte born in Canada drove the first spike for the Kansas City Fort Smith and Southern Railway on a 35 mile line from Joplin to Splitlog. He is reputedly the wealthiest Indian and a pioneering railroad man.
A justice of the peace recounts two embarrassed couples at a Saratoga County ceremony. One groom spun a white straw hat, then hid it between his knees before the bride snatched it away with a parasol. In the second, a groom twirled a cigar and finally placed it in his mouth before the official intervened to remove it.
Anton Saverne a Belgian cabinet maker at a Kensington shipyard can produce electric sparks by rubbing his fingers. A nervous man about 40 with keen blue eyes he claims heightened senses and acuteness of hearing sight and smell. His parents live on a Belgium farm near Brussels and he is the youngest of eleven siblings.
An undertaker travels from London to Jamaica and, due to a crossed order for black jacks, receives tin pots labeled Black Jacks. He and a friend profit by selling them as ladles, then test a joke order for warming pans to the father in England, who ships them, but the friend buys and resells them for profit. The tale ends with fortunes made and the maxim that a ready wit can make things fit.
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