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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1886
Page
2
A fragmented reminiscence of graduation mixed with a murder case set in Midhampton. The narrator recalls awkward rites, intense emotions, and a later murder mystery involving Miss Harman, Captain Mervyn, and the bride Edith Brooks. The tale blends schooldays with a detective’s pursuit unraveling a love tragedy and a courtroom resolution.
A correspondent requests the digestible nutritive values of principal grains and clover to show fat muscle and bone production and growth. The note explains water content differences, highlights grains’ higher nutritive ratios, and warns the table reflects averages with real-world variation.
A World article notes evolving female fashion and adornments with references to silk velvets, pearl buttons, small close hats, silver watches, and colorful dress combinations. It describes jewelry trends including coolie collars, hairpins, bonnet pins, and decorative gift exchanges among brides' families, urging returns of duplicates before a stated exchange deadline.
The American Pomological Society president Marshall P Wilder explains success rests on controlling temperature light and moisture. He describes a cool well drained fruit house with north door double windows and cemented cellar where late fall and winter pears are kept through February or March. Apples require slightly warmer conditions and can be kept until June with careful air exchange. After harvest pears are stored in stacked bushel boxes on the north side of the fruit house then moved to the cellar. Wilder notes ice cooled storage dulls flavor and dry texture. For most pears about 40 degrees Fahrenheit preserves ripening equilibrium. Different varieties need varying moisture and heat to suit skin firmness and flesh texture.
A dated column reviews affordable hand care tips from ammonia and borax in lukewarm water to oatmeal and egg mixtures. It compares lotions like glycerine and Roman paste, favoring dry oatmeal and bed gloves, with lemon juice as a cleaning aid. It notes a moral about progress and forward movement in a separate devotional excerpt.
A fragmentary, somber verse piece portrays a child narrator lamenting Dollie’s mistreatment and sorrow. The child recalls long golden hair, a battered state, and fear of punishment as she faces misfortune, while expressing guilt and isolation in a damaged depiction of a tale from a period newspaper.
A large yellow cow named Buttercup slips through a loosened fence to join a Sunday school at a pretty church surrounded by daisies. Panic erupts as children and teachers scatter while Buttercup eyes a stray doll from a boy’s pocket before slipping back to her field led by Bruce Smith.
A miscellany of satirical snippets and quips from various papers. Jokes about frogs, boodle, Java coffee, chicory, luxury, etiquette, and public figures appear in brief quotations and humorous notes from sources like the N. C. Picayune Boston Post Chicago Herald and Punch, reflecting light literary gossip and social satire. The piece includes a Dakota judge remark on inherited public images and an assortment of humorous dicta on fashion, medicine, and home life.
A Detroit Free Press description outlines an electrical cremation method where a shrouded body lies on fire-brick beneath copper pegs connected to high voltage dynamos. Current would carbonize the body instantly with air access, promising rapid action and fewer objections than traditional cremation, with room for further improvements.
In a domestic scene Cleopatra the premed doll laments deterioration after a girl named Midget calls her maimed and useless. The aristocratic Japanese couple observes, while servants discuss past affection and a new plain doll named Comfort becomes favored, ending with a child rejecting Cleopatra.
A youthful telegraph operator in 1857 Delhi kept the line open to warn Lahore and Peshawar as mutineers moved on the capital. His message alerted British forces, enabling disarmament of the Sepoys and preventing further bloodshed. The incident is recounted as a noble example of duty.
A clergyman walking with a pony, a retriever, and a Dachshund near a shepherd’s cottage is attacked by a loose dog. The pony flees, the man fights with a riding whip, and the retriever hides. The small pony intervenes, separates the animals, and the party continues their walk in safety.
A discussion of kissing as universal yet controversial. Dr Samuel S Adams argues kissing has moral and physical dangers, especially promiscuous kissing of babies by adults. He cites diseases and even rare injuries, noting a case where a kiss caused an ear drum rupture and a lighthearted anecdote about a professor using an umbrella after a mishap.
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