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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1886
Page
3
A garbled recollection from Malrim Douglas and Sam describes a day of wandering in Wayback County. The speaker recalls meeting a delicate looking man and a stranger named Braith and a mistaken identity. The narrative hints at a con and a lost three hundred dollars in a dark room.
Miss Jollibert, noted for wealth and beauty, faces a life choice urged by the Bishop of Malchester. She declares a wish to marry, while he counsels a convent path. After tense debate, he urges marriage as the practical path, and the couple’s engagement ends with a wedding that winter.
The World outlines current trends for women including jeweled hair ornaments and small gold ball earrings, jeweled pendants, fur trims on French velvet bonnets, and new uses for bonnet and scarf pins. It highlights tableware forms, Mikado red tea sets, plush albums, ivory velvet mantles trimmed with white fox fur, slim gem rings, revived long fur boas, and repousse and enamel detailing on silver items.
A collage of domestic notes and cooking hints from early newspapers. Noodles and soup methods mix with livestock care, silver cleaning, wax and honey cautions, composted manure, boiled starch ironing tips, medieval housing notes, and nut Jumbles flavoring guidance. The items imitate a weekday household page with brief, instruction-like lines.
A 19th century farm and public health note describes how ensilage is made from green forage, especially corn, with airtight, watertight silos. It advises testing methods on a small scale, proper weighting, timing of harvest, and keeping moisture balanced to prevent heating, then shifts to a Washington Health Association call for broader hygiene and physical exercise in American schools.
A discussion on the origin of cattle breeds and plant races tracing European cattle movement. Cites German scholar Victor Hehn and theories placing polled breeds from Baltic invasions, linking Hereford, Kerry, Channel Island, Brittany, and Devon cattle to historical migrations and crossbreeding over time.
In lumber camps of Maine and Canada workers crave sour pickles and turn to ants, a curious diet amid poor berry yields. Two camp youths collect large, dormant ants from decayed logs, scooping out a quart in one nest, a meal thought to provide tens of thousands of insects per quart.
A vivid chronicle of JoJo the dog faced young in exhibition and Kee Boo the dog faced girl forming a romance in a Bowery museum. Their courtship spans Boston to New York with Kee Boo feeding JoJo bones, his heart won, and a wedding rumored as the pair brace for a future: a circus of romance amid curious onlookers.
A Detroit poultry buyer in Macomb County was halted by three tramps each with a club. They taunted him to donate to an orphanage near Chicago. He gave two silver dollars, and the trio praised his charity while letting him pass. Detroit Free Press report.
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