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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1887
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR hints at a poem style item about an old man and a nursery rhyme theme. The text references a historical journal and winter imagery with a character named Bub and red mitts, but details are incomplete and unclear.
The old Trevor House story centers on John Trevor a harsh colonial master and his Narragansett wife Rose Wayland. An Indian captive, a missing boy, brutal fits, and a haunted mansion weave through years of pursuit murder and superstition. The tale ends with whispers that the haunted estate and Trevor lineage fade into legend.
The article surveys legends and reports of extraordinarily tall individuals from biblical giants to modern era claims. It cites Og, Goliah, Maximinius, Patagonians, and various European and Asian observations, noting uncertainty and sensationalism in measurements. An unrelated note on electrical heating stoves in France describes wires through refractory plates and air circulation to heat moving air.
The Ravenhead plate glass works in England operates in a vast building with a central melting furnace and dual working sides. Raw materials include silica sand, soda, lime and cullet, fused for up to sixteen hours then cast on a heated table, formed into sheets, annealed for five days, and finished with sand, emery, and iron powder polishing to a bright surface.
A tall backwoods man walks into a New York State wholesale grocery and boasts he can shoulder a sack of coffee and carry it across the store without laying it down. The merchant offers a year at a hundred dollars a month if he can do it twice. The man does so, hauls the sack, and is hired on the spot. He rises to become senior partner, valued at a million dollars.
A collage of items notes emigration woes with tales of invasive crops like thistles and sweet briar. It cites colonists paying dearly for patriotism while detailing unrelated curiosities such as new flower pots and inventions. The piece references The Industrial World, Philadelphia and Chicago journals, and a Tro y Times data point on cotton consumption.
A collage of quips and humorous excerpts from various papers. The snippets jest about family fortunes, education, fashion, weather, and social mores, naming multiple cities and papers. The tone mimics late 19th century humor columns with playful puns and light satire.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt portrays a tense street scene where a man questions a boy about the date and the boy accuses him of a debt scheme. The passerby expects a note due and a loan request as the conversation unfolds near Griswold and Larned.
A motherly vignette centers on a lively boy nicknamed Jack and a pastoral tale of a shepherd boy who saves a carrier pigeon. The king rewards virtue with a sword promise, teaching that small acts of honesty and kindness can aid the king and shape greatness, as told in Parables for Children.
A child named Myo drives a market wagon with a horse and lines run through a barrel to shield him from rain. His mother worries as rain falls but laughs when she realizes Myo hid under the barrel umbrella, explaining his dry scheme. The tale from Our Little Ones by Mary A. Allen centers on ingenuity and a boy’s trick to stay dry while delivering produce.
A report recalls Lulu Carpenter, twelve, mortally hurt by a cyclone at Sank Rapids Mina. She fled to save her baby sister and was struck by a splinter. her final words comforted Susy. The piece notes brave deeds remembered in faith. Also told is a nine foot winged eagle incident with a Toronto area farmer and a humorous exchange about a drowned man, via Washington Critic.
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