09 Oct 1879
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1879
Page
1
A fragmentary verse item praises the whip-poor-will, recalling youthful dreams and loves as the bird’s nocturnal song drifts from shadowed groves. It evokes rural scenes, moonlight, and the bird’s haunting, half human calls that suggest memory and longing.
A narrator recalls love for Elwyn Ashton, ten years her senior, amid Aunt Eleanor’s presence. Jealousy, a confession of love between Elwyn and Eleanor forces the narrator to end their relationship. Elwyn marries Eleanor, dies later, and the narrator keeps a hair keepsake from their bond.
A Paris Anthropological Museum display of thirty six guillotined murderers reveals unusually large skulls with an average volume near 1 531 cubic centimeters. Dr Bernier notes parieto occipital development linked to strong action and compares these skulls with Solutre and M Homo Mort prehistoric types.
A Carne farm house tale recounts a cat mistaking its reflection in a floor mirror for an intruder. After repeated attacks and a careful test with a paw the cat concludes the illusion, and thereafter ignores reflections. The note ends with a remark on warm weather and corn starch in cheap ice cream.
A reporter describes how swell thieves migrate to resorts like Saratoga and Newport each summer, studying prey, using companions, and concealing loot by sending it to urban agents. Hotel and banco crews flood watering places, while detectives struggle to curb their careful, polished methods.
A local preacher visiting a Newcastle area village is invited for tea by a minister and his wife. In a comic turn the wife, mistaking the preacher for the husband’s washing, delivers a few raps to his head then realizes the error as the preacher cleans soap from his eyes and the husband waits his turn.
A concise remark defines a hopeless person as someone who deserts imself, implying self abandonment as a measure of despair.
A Jew from Odessa surveys a vast Southern Russian wheat field bordered by poppies and notes the logistics of shipping to Odessa. He negotiates with Prince Nokine, while peasants and a steam mower arrive, revealing a gambling-feeling harvest economy and Benjudas’s careful plans for carts, barns, and ships. An unrelated Cincinnati bank scene shows a seedy wanderer grilling teller Fab Lawson about lending to strangers.
The Hudson River fish commission uses wooden boxes with water screens to collect eels from eddies near the State dam. Large hauls are packed in milk cans with mud and marsh grass, iced for transport to Michigan under Orin M. Chase, linked to Seth Green, amid ongoing eel spawn studies and seasonal abundance.
A mother each reports a missing child found in odd places after an anxious search. One two year old slept in a large iron pot in the kitchen. another child lay asleep in a shipyard bread trough after a servant left the room to gossip. A different mother found her baby in the cradle with disordered clothes after a community-wide search.
A compilation of maxims on love faith patience and virtue. It stresses helpfulness, perseverance, honesty, self control, and worlds beyond the grave. It urges action now, guarding against vanity and promoting character as the true eternal possession.
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