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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1886
Page
1
In a Civil War tale, Lieutenant Charles Monteal pursues Miss Angell across a divided North and South. He discovers the captain leading the rebels is Edith Angell in disguise. Edith dies in Monteal arms after a doomed romance ending in murder and war’s toll.
A narrator recalls a trip where a presumptuous passenger asks him to guard his seat. The seat changes hands amid refusals and antics by several travelers, culminating in the original owner returning and the scene resolving amid comic chaos in a Detroit Free Press account.
The Cincinnati Inquirer notes the frequent appearance of seven in Bible stories as a prophetic symbolic number tied to creation, justice, feasts, jubilees, and endings. It cites seven days, seven doves, seven lean kine, seven weeks, seven years, and sevenfold judgments among both Old and New Testament passages.
Jim Webster asks Sam Johnsing for a dollar with no use to him. Sam lends a counterfeit lead dollar claiming kindness to friends. Webster bites the coin and realizes its false nature, expressing surprise at the luck and Sam’s reply about generosity.
Local printing house pride as JOURNAL Office completes high quality typesetting and composition for readers and advertisers with timely, accurate results and professional service.
The story recounts Judge David Davis declaring that no law prevents a railroad from stealing a farm, but noting he will not allow the farm to be kept. The case features a vindicated farmer in Vermillion County after a deed was paid with par stock later found valueless.
A discussion from Popular Science Monthly explains that land and sea levels continuously change relative to each other. It outlines various ground motions including earthquakes, earth tremors, pulsations, oscillations, and long period shifts, noting their interrelation and historical examples.
A man from Peoria Illinois travels from the White Mountains and asks for an outside stateroom on the Fall River Line steamer for the night after tomorrow. The clerk jokes about ordering a northwest breeze and the man leaves satisfied.
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