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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1880
Page
1
Millheim Banking Co on Main Street Millheim PA advertises services with cashier A Walter and auctioneer Harter offering guaranteed satisfaction.
Poignant meditation on grief for lost children and the mother heart. The speaker questions why children bless the parents and wonders if heavenly music and light ease the sorrow. It hints that only the divine hand knows the measure of mercy or wrath guiding such pain and possible morning relief.
Herbert Wallis, a generous clerk, forges a senior colleague’s signature to cover a promissory note. Elsie Roberts loves him as his world collapses when Mr Hepburn denies the forged signature and Wallis is arrested for forgery. He is sentenced to five years with hard labor. Elsie and Mrs Roberts endure debt and sorrow.
The story traces Mrs. Roberts and her daughter Elsie three years after Herbert Wallis’s conviction. Elsie marries Mr. Waller, a wealthy widower, seeking security while Wallis, released after commutation, becomes entangled in a fatal burglary alongside two other criminals. A police case unfolds with a deadly confrontation.
The article explains that besides major elements like nitrogen carbon and hydrogen a body contains about two pounds of phosphorus four packages of matches worth, sodium and potassium for burns, magnesium for bright rockets, and in principle these materials could be extracted for profit by a reckless chemist from dead bodies.
The California Mountain Messenger describes a experiment at a Placerville foundry where sliced apples were subjected to a three and a half hour cold air blast in the cupola furnace. The fruit dried evenly without harshness or discoloration, staying soft. Compared with sun drying it saved expense and risk and does not depend on weather.
In July 1880 a Crow war party of four hundred pursued four thousand buffaloes into a river gorge near Yellowstone. The stampede overwhelmed riders and beasts as the river surged, with thirty Indians and fifty ponies drowned and hundreds of buffalo fatalities reported.
In early Celtic culture metal halos on saint effigies survived after wood figures decayed and hung by doorways. The circular nimbus later became a decorative substitute for the saint and influenced the spread of good luck charms linking halos, doors, and protective beliefs to a horseshoe icon.
French under secretary proposes three parts for Diaments de la Couronne. Historic jewels to Louvre, mineral valued stones to Ecole des Mines, royal jewelry to auction with proceeds funding a State Fine Art Fund. Regent diamond 136 carats and other highlights noted.
Oldest pure glass piece is a molded lion head in the British Museum with an Egyptian eleventh dynasty king’s name. Glassware and glaze appear over 2000 years before Christ, showing early skill. Pliny credits Phoenicians with spreading glass and Blown glass art appears in Egyptian tomb scenes from dynasties XII to V, some dates remain uncertain.
A Detroit woman keeps many hens and is shocked when a hungry but honest thief returns with a dead hen. He explains he found it outside her fence and offers no reward, but the hen is found frozen solid, hinting at a longer chain of neglect and crime. The incident ends with the thief gone and the woman blushing with embarrassment.
A young park robin named Rob becomes a favored household companion for an uptown family. He perches on the mistress's shoulder, bathes in water, and shows attitude to strangers. After a starch mishap he is cleaned and resumes singing. The article then shifts to beginner archery gear and bows.
Historic trees in America and Britain are described with ages and sizes. Boston claims two first chestnuts on Washington Street aged about 103 years. Legends surround ancient oaks in England and a large sycamore in Perthshire. A Berks County chestnut yields chestnuts yearly, while a long venerable yew in Cowhurst Churchyard is said to be 1450 years old. A fossil forest near Manchester reveals twelve trunks two feet across dating to the middle coal measure period.
The article traces champagne from elite English tables to broader use over 50 to 60 years, noting Napoleon's limited allowance and Churchill-like warnings. It argues Napoleon preferred Chambertin, claims champagne was a ladies drink, and cites port and sherry as favored after-dinner wines for the exile’s table.
On February 22 1812 miner Hubert Goffin of Aus near Liege led 126 miners and his son Matthias from a flooded shaft. When water trapped them he chose to rescue companions rather than escape, and after hours of peril they broke through with help from the son. Napoleon awarded Hubert the Legion of Honor and gave Matthias college admission.
A Colorado incident on the Fairplay to Alma route reports two Chinese travelers forced to ride a stagecoach topper after a sign warned them away. A crowd objected, threatening violence, until the stage returned to Fairplay with the men still aboard.
An ailing man bequeathed $1000 to a person who previously eloped with his wife years earlier, claiming the bequest as repayment for a favor he never forgot. The incident ties a long-remembered favor to a later financial gesture.
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