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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1892
Page
7
A fragmented verse collage recalls Santa Claus lore and Christmas imagery. It quotes Florence Pratt and Youth's Companion, contrasting childhood wonder with the ache of aging and the call to keep holiday cheer alive amid loss.
Narrator recalls a rough Christmas at a sheep camp where Old Man, Corb, and a young woman Miss Belle face weather, jealousy, and social tensions. The night storm tests loyalties while a tender bond forms between the Old Man and Belle, culminating in a quiet, hopeful proposal and a pledge of care as Christmas dawns.
A veteran speaks of roaming after Lee s surrender and choosing Paris as a home, only to grow homesick and flee to Rome then New York. He recalls a carnival song from Kentucky and ends with a toast to The Old Kentucky Home in Louisville, as he bids farewell to Rome.
A collage of notes covers aluminum corrosion, early Greek astronomy, Central American exports, banana cultivation, Malayan flora, California raisins, brain work limits, and potato agricultural experiments. It highlights aluminum resistance, Thales, Costa Rica cocoa and sugar, Honduras fruit crops, a mysterious flower, rising raisin production, cautions on caffeine sleep, and a French potato yield method.
Californian reports an ancient temple on Waverly Street dedicated to the Queen of Heaven, claimed by the Sam Yap Company. The legend centers on a Chinese young woman of the Lum clan born in Fokien who guided sailors through a typhoon after sensing danger, then died at sea after grieving her father’s drowning.
A Chicago breakfast tale recalls Texas stockmen and a famed stockwoman who judged cattle by eye. An old longhorn boasts he can name a steer’s brand from a finished steak, promising five hundred dollars that the meal came from a steer branded B C. Also a brief cartoon quip about women voters and praying.
A long fragment from The Woman's Column presents poetic praise of women as creators, nurturers, and leaders. It extols beauty, strength, wisdom, and moral influence, portraying women as central to love, nation, and education through grand, old-fashioned verse.
A survey highlights Louisa May Alcott as a symbol of female resilience, detailing her poverty battle and family devotion. It reviews achievements by women in science, medicine, invention, law, arts, and education, noting figures like Herschel, Nightingale, Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Mary Lyon, among others, and underscores single women’ broad contributions worldwide.
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