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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1886
Page
1
Borge L. Springer of Millheim Pennsylvania opens a new office in the Woodings Building. The location marks Springer’s professional expansion in the region.
Lilias Wayland confronts Charley’s theft of five hundred dollars from old Glencross to help keep the family afloat. She seeks aid from Glencross himself, who is moved by her plea. Glencross offers forgiveness and later invites Lilias as his guest, while she schemes to repay the debt. Paulus Glencross proposes marriage, settling Lilias’s obligation with a new, healthier debt of love.
Galveston Tex Oct 14 Sabine Pass at the mouth of the Sabine river is reported entirely washed away by Tuesday night's storm. More than 50 lives lost from a 200 resident town. Telegraphic communication cut off. Sabine Pass lies 60 miles from Galveston and 28 miles southwest of Beaumont. Tug entry barred by the storm drawn bar.
A Port Eads dispatch reports widespread damage from a late storm along the coast to Pointe a la Hache. Twenty four feet of water at Port Eads, heavy seas washed over the jetties and a concrete wall, blocks, and a public plank road were damaged or submerged. Many residents fled to the Eastport hotel as water rose to the first floor of several houses.
A powerful gale and heavy rain sweep through Chicago area causing trees to snap and buildings to be damaged. Widespread debris blocks streets as signals warn of continuing severe winds and lake gusts, with downed telegraph lines hampering reports.
Captain Swift and five citizens marching on foot into the Black Hills faced 35 mounted Indians, then over 100 at the forks. They fought a siege, using a timbered bluff and a man-made trench to hold the position. No one was hurt as they endured two hours of harassment.
A collection of humorous snippets from the Santa Rosa Democrat and others features Mr. Vesuvius symbolizing smoking harms, a wife and husband exchange about duties, a singing mouse tale, rough on rats quip, an Ohio factory producing 57 million matches, and a joke about pricing silk yards.
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