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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1886
Page
5
Eyewitness accounts recount the violent earthquake and volcanic eruption at Mount Tarawera. Fire, smoke, and lava filled the sky as towns were engulfed. natives and settlers faced destruction, with many killed or missing and habitats obliterated.
A reminiscence on Cooperstown famed as Fenimore Cooper's home. The piece recalls Otsego Hall, old social scene, and village life with notable families, the shift from stagecoach to railroad, and the decline of Cooper’s estate into neglect after his era. It notes Cooper's democratic, friendly stance and local charity efforts through Miss Susan and the orphanage.
A New Haven Register report describes future desk telephones enabling merchants to talk to New York Boston and Philadelphia without leaving their counting rooms. The rosewood desk hides the bell and transmitter with a movable mouthpiece and a four switch bar linking to distant lines. The copper circuit promises clear whispering across city noise with automatic transmitter alignment and a return to direct city calls.
The article argues many men remain unmarried due to fear of failing to realize domestic happiness, expenses of married life, work obligations, or fear of entanglements. It notes bachelors come from varied motives, including financial caution, career focus, and social shifts, while women’s increased independence and athletic pursuits shape attitudes toward marriage.
A member at the Old Volumes club recounts massage origins from China five thousand years back, naming Kong Fon as a dated manuscript. He notes Greek and Roman use post bath, lomi lomi among Sandwich Islanders, and French terms in early 19th century practice. The field gained scientific footing via Van Mosengeit, with Metzger and over a hundred works in a decade.
A traveler shares a chilling encounter with a maniac inside a train compartment waiting for a delayed timetable. The lunatic demands escape, but the traveler delays by offering prayers for royalty and others, while the struggle to flee unfolds as time runs out.
The piece surveys bee hive design and management, detailing movable frame practices, brood and honey patterns, and the invertible hive method. It explains turning the hive to align brood rearing with storage, timing in spring, and handling sections to maximize brood and honey production.
A collage of oddities and brief items: seven prisoners were captured near Salida by the Citizens' League then released, a Napa post office hoax note, a farmer in Elkhart finding a rattlesnake in hay, meadow moles in the wake, Ghasta County corn and a 174 inch onion in San Francisco displays, snake-eating behavior observations, a boy of twelve electrocuted after attempting to shock an electric line, and a vending line claiming various remedies and products amid a general miscellany.
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