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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1892
Page
3
A weary clerk leans back to draft a valentine to his wife late that night. He ponders meter rhyme and time as he writes, balancing work with a personal note born from fatigue.
On St Valentine’s Day Zouri, Seth’s youngest, secretly writes a valentine to Uncle Joe, farmer estranged for four years over a land dispute and Tennessee’s injury. She brave crosses the pond to deliver it, Joe discovers the note, and the pair bond as Seth forgives and invites Joe home, reuniting the two families.
The article reviews Cornell university experiments over three years on wire worms, their life cycle, and protective and destructive methods. Seed coatings failed. kerosene and certain chemicals work only at high cost. Fall plowing destroys larvae in stages, but requires long-term rotation. A sifter for ashes is described as a labor saver for farm homes.
A collection of colonial era kitchen and craft notes from multiple papers. Recipes include potato cake puff paste vanilla custard and feather pudding with gelatine. cold slaw rice with pears. biscuit glace. and a lamping method using phosphorus and olive oil to read at night. Also includes decorative card designs and a note on not letting egg whites overheat during cake making.
A Chicago account of Malay wedding rites describes a bride deemed soulless, the mosque ceremony arranged by male relatives, and the elaborate public display of wealth and rank. The bride remains passive for three days while bridemaids entertain, culminating in a religious seal and Allah's blessing.
The February Wide Awake offers varied entertaining content including Mary McIntosh Cox’s Jack Brereton's Three Months' Service and The Lance of Kanana. It also contains essays on Indian life, adventure sketches, poems, and short papers. Published by D. Lorster Co. Boston at 20 cents per issue.
A newspaper display ad promises free lithographs if readers send the unique weekly word. The ad notes a crescent mark appears on every ad and urges participation, offering samples and noting the author is The Dr. Harter Medicine Co.
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