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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1883
Page
1
Caleb Dunn recalls a loved one’s return aboard a ship after a voyage. The poem contrasts sunset by the bay, singing birds, and waves with the joy of reunion and the memory of faith carried across the sea. The piece centers on longing, travel, and the consoling sight of a white sail.
Barbara Ferron challenges three suitors to prove bravery by staying with a corpse overnight. Ernest the gunsmith tests himself in a coffin, Barney the blacksmith endures a ghostly vigil, and Fritz the tanner plans a fearsome ruse. A final reveal shows the dead man answering Barbara’s demand.
The captive lovers burst free and fled home in panic. Barbara later awakens to find the man back from the dead and marries him despite invitations from Fritz and Barney that go unanswered. The trio never confronts Barbara’s chilling triumph or her gleeful gaze.
The Shetland pony is a small, fearless, and obedient animal bred for hillside work. It carries peat in cassies, moves carefully on rugged terrain, and remains calm under rough conditions. Its winter coat traps heat, though it sheds it in spring, revealing a sturdy, well adapted farm companion.
Do not invite quests if you do not want them. Do not run in debt to entertain them in style. Do not upend your house for them. Do not wear Sunday dress while cooking dinner. Do not show them off publicly or hide them if poor relatives. Do not alter family prayers to match their religion. Do not tell them every minute to feel at home. make your house feel home-like so they feel welcome.
A brief line notes that the speaker and a partner split five thousand dollars between them that night, highlighting a joint financial decision without further context or details.
Professor Bell explains the telephone arose from two long studied lines of thought that blended into one, tying his work on speech and electricity to deaf teaching and sound writing. He details experiments with a membranous diaphragm and smoked glass, then linking them to produce the telephone.
A Philadelphia Times article argues that training can mend some idiots, notes bones of the insane are brittle, and supports hospitals for the insane to protect both the insane and society. It cites Cowper and public fatigue as examples of derangement and urges proper care and safeguarding.
A Scotch farmer, relieved after securing his hay crop from frequent threats of weather, declares that with his day safely in the world would be much improved by a light shower. The anecdote notes human self interest in a humorous light.
The essay recalls Bedouin valor during raids and battles, noting prisoners and casualties, then explains how tribes avoid blood feuds by mediating with third parties and settling blood money to restore peace, as observed by observers of Blackwood's Magazine.
A woman in a Cass Avenue yard was sitting in a hammock when a ragged tramp climbed over the fence and settled in the ham mock. She returned with a knife and severed the rope, dropping him to the ground. The intruder left after a shouted taunt about a photograph.
A rustic scene unfolds as a couple pass each other on the road and exchange glances causing a shared, whispered inquiry. The pair keep to their path while neighbors observe and later gossip spreads of a forthcoming union and a bonnet on a gate signals a forthcoming engagement.
A hazy collection of humorous bits and tall tales from early comic prose. Jests range from wordplay about canards and canny cautions to shy misunderstandings of manners. A Kansas joke delivers a cyclone punchline as a husband escapes into the storm.
A broad-shouldered man walks on Chatham Street clutching a painful boil on his calf. Two friends plot a dog prank to frighten him, one grabs his leg and barks as he pursues him. The victim jumps, recites the alphabet, grimaces, and searches the street for his prankster, who hides grinning from a cornice.
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