This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 7 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1887
Page
2
Next Saturday is the final day to pay a voting tax and Democrats are urged to attend to the matter. The text mocks Republican stances and notes a separate sailing incident involving a Volunteer yacht and a Scotch Thistle owner seeking to sell the vessel.
On Friday October 21 Superintendent Higbee announced Autumn School Arbor Day and urged superintendents teachers and school officers across the state to push tree planting. The note stresses the civic duty and educational value of expanding tree cover.
The article promotes John Noll as a trusted and respected candidate with a strong past record and broad appeal including Republicans. It asserts Nell will win by a large margin and attacks Governor Beaver for opposing tax revision, claiming corporate interests control policy and harm the common people. It urges voting the Democratic state ticket to counter corporate influence.
Bradstreet's tally shows 6 958 failures in the first nine months of 1887, down from 7 518 in 1886 and well below 1885 1884 and 1883 totals. Despite an expected rise in the last quarter, the year’s total may be about 9 700, marking the mildest failure rate in five years and a sign of general prosperity.
Washington letter describes the three Pullman cars with weatherproof connections, steam heating, electric lights, and $200,000 outlay led by Geo. M. Pullman. The party includes President Cleveland, Mrs. Cleveland, Lamont, friends, and press reps. Secretary Bayard and others named to fisheries commission.
Reports from St Louis Columbus and Philadelphia cover Judge Roe winning G A R commander in chief on the first ballot and set next encampment site in Columbus Ohio Sergeant Holtzworth named national cemetery superintendent in Gerryspura Pa Major Bayne and engineers survey to connect Tape Worm railroad with Western Maryland line near Orrtanna Chambersburg eyeing rapid rail access to Get tysburg and looming coal and mining news from Pottsville Wilkes Barre Hazleton and Portsville including a fatal colliery incident Hungarians leaving Lehigh region amid strikes and a dramatic yacht race where the Volunteer defeats the Thistle by a wide margin.
A 15 year old, George Harrington, confessed to setting the Aug. 31Oak Grove seminary fire that killed a student and later the gymnasium blaze. He was arrested, remanded, and faces grand jury action. Also reported is a prison escape by George Trowery, and a daytime bandit attack aboard a Sewickley Branch train near Greensburg.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.