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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1887
Page
4
A drunken night ends with Jack sobered by remorse and family strain. He contemplates reform after a confrontation with his wife, seeks forgiveness, and reconciles with a vow to change while comforting his crying wife and dog as a Vermont memory haunts him. The tale closes with a hopeful, if fragile, renewal.
Mrs. Merriam Grant and seven others perished when their rear car failed in a Chatsworth wreck. A six member singing party in the same car sang of near er to the thee as the engine failed and the train plunged, killing all in the rear car and crushing the front cars.
A jailed tramp explains his method to appear hardworking by toughening hands with a hickory pad and browning the skin. He claims the judge will credit his tale of unemployment caused by strikes, and says the ruse has helped him avoid trouble in court.
In a balcony scene a romantic suitor pleads with Priscilla as he sighs about roses and tears. The exchange ends with a practical quip noting he was also moved by onions, deflating the moment. The mood shifts from ardor to playful humor.
A Cleveland artist A M Willard painted Yankee Doodle a work admired at Philadelphia centennial exhibition. Critics abroad attacked the fife and drum front yet the painting inspired patriotism and circulated widely after showing in Boston San Francisco Washington and Cleveland. Willard born 1863 in Bedford studied painting and carriage painting before pioneering American iconography.
John asks about a woman seen lately, and a second column urges readers to read about her. It claims chemists found the wines absolutely pure and equal to the world’s best. It notes the Board of Wealth in large cities and leading hospitals have adopted their use where wines are needed.
In a playful exchange, Aunt Kate asks if it was the Lord's will for curling hair, to which Jessie replies that God did curl it in infancy and she is old enough now to manage on her own.
A London Tid Bits item recounts conjurers' mishaps with borrowed items such as watches bank notes and rings. It notes substitutions gone wrong and a Scotland south audience example where a watch was damaged yet fully compensated. An eggs illusion at a Christmas party ends with a broken dress and a stinking scene.
A famed literary figure recounts composing a forty line poem in forty minutes under pressure. He describes sending The Light House in a Storm to a magazine, later discovering it published with an engraving in a rival journal. He rushed a second lighthouse poem to fill space and felt relief. The compelled poem, he believes, was best.
The article portrays Syrian wives as central to family labor with water gathering, corn grinding, bread baking in earth ovens, and caring for children. It notes harsh living conditions, crude homes of rough stone and clay roofs, and husbandly leisure on the divan or rooftop.
An old railroad man recalls Castoria and a Kansas quicksand disaster near Fort Wallace. He compares it to the Tay Bridge incident noting an engine and cars swallowed by quicksand or water, with engineers lost and no passengers aboard in Kansas.
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