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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1882
Page
3
Town notices include private sale of property and executors offering real estate at public sale on Tuesday November 28th. Council reports and local business praise include Journal Store wares, leather finishing, clothing at Lewin’s, and patent instructions.
The item notes a $20 fine for playing ball in streets at Pottstown and reports Northumberland County paying $16,000 of its debt this year. It cites a store in the Upper Providence Friends meeting house from 1765, Judge Dreher estimating $450,000 yearly for summer boarders in Monroe County, Henry B. Hutchinson bequeathing $1,000 for clothing poor children in Woodstock Vermont, and U.S. 1880 population by race and origin: native whites 36,843,291 colored 6,632,547 foreign born 6,679,952 total 50,155,750.
The Pennsylvania railroad unveils Jumbo with 7 foot driving wheels, drawing a Philadelphia to Jersey City train 90 miles in 80 minutes. Three burglars fleeing a Warren dwelling last week: one drowned, one escaped, one captured. The German Saloon Keepers Association of Pittsburgh canvasses candidates on liquor to curb temperance forces.
A letter from Carrizo Pass Texas recounts a duel in a Pecos mining camp between New Yorkers George Hollenbeck and William Stratton. They faced off with pistols in total darkness. Stratton fired first and again, killing Stratton as Hollenbeck groaned. Hollenbeck later used ventriloquism to misdirect Stratton’s shot.
In the first installment at Linden Mail Mr. Jacob Moyer aged 80 years 7 months 13 days is noted.
A fragmented OCR of items and prices from a grocery listing. Mentions flour wheat bran shorts salt plaster cement butter hams buttered items dried fruit and potatoes with stray numbers. The text is garbled and interspersed with nonsensical sequences.
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