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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1886
Page
1
An old newspaper snippet markets shops opposite the Millheim Banking House on Main Street in Millheim Pennsylvania. It mentions offices in Woodings Building with D H Hastings W F Reeder and Hastings & Reeder as a firm.
At breakfast Helly clashes with Glenn and Betty over chores and apologies. A prankish sugar remark sparks a quarrel. later a phone call prompts Betty to seek forgiveness and Helly to forgive, leading to a warm reconciliation and a promise to stay together.
Freddy enjoys his first soda water but compares the taste to when your foot is asleep. His mother treats him and asks how he likes it as he wrinkles his nose and notices a tingling sensation in his nostrils.
Historical notes recount pious endowments for waking worshippers during sermons. John Rudge funded twenty shillings yearly at Trysull for a wakeful poor man, while Richard Dovery funded eight shillings at Clavery. Other regions used threshing-fork shaped wands and beadle staffs to rouse sleepers.
A household celebrates a new cabinet organ and the mother learns to play. The organ's constant practice annoys a neighbor, who asks to borrow the music book. The incident ends with the organ locked to prevent further noise and a request by a neighboring child to ease the ache.
In Southern Indiana a revivalist preacher rode a spirited horse that refused shoeing. A county smith offered to shoe it for free if the preacher sang while the smith worked. The horse remained passive as the preacher delivered lively camp meeting songs, finishing only when the last nail was driven and the smith proclaimed, I knew you could sing religion into that horse.
In Piedmont Georgia a man earns or offers work for forty cents a day. If he hires himself or offers any bill he charges forty cents. When swapping animals or other goods he trades at forty cents either way. The odd pay rate has locals curious about his business methods.
Advertisement notes that a sample pound of Dreydoppel's Borax Soap is the best and cheapest soap likely used by leading families in New York Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington.
Mayo argues wealth is not money nor possession but the satisfaction of essential human needs. He cites air, water, food, shelter, clothing, labor, rest, education, leisure, and spiritual needs as true wealth, warning that abundance without need fulfillment brings poverty. He contrasts riches with futile pursuit of material gain.
A London workingman, once turned away from multiple sanctuaries, returns after two decades when his child attends Sunday school. A chapel steward quietly guides him to a seat, avoiding disruption, and the man becomes a church member, a testament to Christian diplomacy.
Madame Bonaparte in her youth attended a state dinner and was escorted to the table by Lord Dundas. After her sarcastic remarks about Mrs Trollope's America the Englishman asked her thoughts on vulgar Americans. She quipped that as direct descendants of the English they should not be surprised if Americans were vulgarians, ending the scene with Dundas silent for the rest of the evening.
In Virginia a rural ice house is a conical pit lined with pine poles and straw. The author recalls using bottom straw as insulation and stacking ice from a pond, noting heat from the earth affected melting more than air. After ten years the ice remains better than earlier methods.
A Cottage Hearth commentary notes ten thousand saloons in New York City average about 220000 dollars daily and 75000000 dollars yearly in revenue. It argues saloons support many trades and professions and even the courts and legal system, urging readers to consider both sides before condemning them.
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