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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1893
Page
5
Fragmented lines recall a country road scene with memories of a past era. The speaker reflects on wages, political figures, and a distant town while noting a shift from old country life to modern times. The piece mentions ambivalent nostalgia and public imagery.
In a dramatic Colorado scene a red headed girl named Ethel Lynch rides Snow Lake to warn a train and save passengers. She confronts robbers, races six miles in twenty two minutes, and after a perilous night the Express clears safely with her as a celebrated heroine.
Reports show Germany's 13 year wine production averaging 56 million gallons with about 60 thousand acres under vine chiefly in Alsace and Lorraine. Northern Delaware wheat yields vary, with farms in New Castle county reporting 10 bushels per acre on 190 acres and other fields giving different results. A massive English band saw aims to cut logs up to 50 feet long, while studies on physics, venom experiments, and oak ages discuss forces, biology and ancient trees. The text also notes tooth-based identification methods used after disasters, and fashion notes on corset covers reflecting evolving styles.
The fragment offers a garbled moral exhortation about truthfulness and honesty attributed to W. Conrk in Golden Day Tricks of Electricity. It references being true in all actions and warns against false colors, urging readers to heed a watchword and stay honest amid dangers.
A lively reader narrative blends old telegraph lore with German and French wartime anecdotes. It recounts how boys tapped telegraph poles, a duke’s clever schemes, and a police pursuit over coded messages, ending with a fable about obedience and transmission.
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