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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1891
Page
3
A Western tale recounts a wanderer lodging at Lone Oquaw camp where a hidden-room confrontation unfolds. The narrator overhears a violent struggle between a young man and an older adversary while a captivating girl pleads, then quietly helps with a perilous rescue attempt before concealing again in his room.
A country station owner witnesses a kangaroo near his balcony as she retrieves a young joey from her pouch and holds it to a water pail to drink. She stays near the observer, then quickly carries the joey back to the pouch, a display described as a poignant act of maternal courage. The observer, moved by the scene, vows never to shoot a kangaroo again.
A Lewiston Journal sketch recounts a tale of Squire Perley seeking a rattlesnake cure for consumption. Eliza Staples upbraids him at the table before he dies, illustrating old beliefs about the serpent’s healing power and a moral rebuke on sanctifying a snake to diet.
The article details multiple hay rack designs for carts and wagons using 2x3 inch scantling or hemlock and chestnut poles. It covers upright positioning to avoid wheel interference, rack arching, pinning with white oak pins, and sections that detach for easy storage.
The frame design for a wagon uses a turned load support with the wagon body removed. A stack arrangement aids easy turning whether loaded or empty. Wheel protectors employ strap iron or half inch steamed lumber bolted in place to reduce rattling, as illustrated in Fig. 4 for salt hay carting.
The article details a heavy wooden salt conveyance built from three inch square timbers with four wooden rods and a four inch wide top board. It resembles a box for a charcoal wagon, is hard to maneuver and hitch, and is mainly useful in salt meadows though seen impractical for city use unless loading to reach a barn.
A Rural New Yorker notice praises a two wheeled dirt wheel barrel that balances easily and carries heavier loads with less effort. It highlights use in field planting and transporting dirt to central dumps, comparing it favorably to regular wheelbarrows for farm labor. It also offers dairy care tips emphasizing cleanliness, shade for pastures, and vigilant cow health to ensure quality milk products.
A discharging chorister ruins a New England congregation's harmony. A Newport butcher loses two fingers to a sausage machine and glibly accepts them with the meat. A Coxsackie barber replaces the pole with a red white and blue mowing blade. Bethlehem Pennsylvania police officer shows his bullet as a daily watch charm. A Vermont bachelor sews on his first button using a long-carried needle. In art news M Juttay runs 17 studios with 600 students in Paris. Muggacsy's Christ among his disciples to be completed in Paris and eventually in Berlin. Gambetta monument at Villa Avray features two Alsatian figures. Emperor William I commissions Von Werner to paint emperors and army officers congratulating Moltke on his 90th birthday.
Surveys from 1851 and 1882 indicate the Gulf of Mexico has risen over one foot since the first period. About 4,500 species of wild bees are known, 1,100 of wasps, with Britain home to 170 and sixteen respectively. Topics include diving eye inflammation, leprosy research in Simla producing rabbit leprosy, a fossil butterfly sold to the Smithsonian for 1500 dollars, and various public notices and advertisements from the era.
A marketing blurb asserts Dr Pierce’s Medicated Blood-Purifier cleanses the whole system and renews health. It promises benefits in March April and May and guarantees money back if no cure or benefit is seen.
A. Hale, proprietor of the House Lewiston and the Ti Hotel in Brunswick, claims Germa Syrup offers quick relief for coughs and stomach issues. He notes his brothers use it for hereditary coughs and cold symptoms, praising it as the best cough remedy in the market.
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