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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1886
Page
2
Fragmentary diary entries describe marital tension over finances and trade strain. The writer, a wife, notes clothing efforts, a dispute about shirt buttons and pockets, and references to George’s reactions and future hopes amid cautious household economies.
The season promises renewed yachting rivalry as Britain plans to send its fastest cutters to reclaim the international challenge cup won by America in 1861. The Puritan victory last year spurred Britain to field top racing craft, headed by the cutter Gulaten, owned by Lieutenant Henn of the British Navy, to challenge American defenders.
The text describes the Galatea with a remarkable hull and canvas, built at Greenock, competing against rivals including Keath and Pur eis. It mentions the Atlantic, Walla Wer, and Mayflor models in the same dexioner context, highlighting improvements and comparisons among sea vessels.
The Atlantic is described as a 108 ton sloop or yacht with 95 feet overall, 23 foot beam, 8 feet 10 inch draft, and 81 by 48 by 76 foot spars. It will carry 033 tons of lead outside ballast. The crew is a scratch group with few prior shipboard bonds, unlike Genesta’s seasoned sailors.
Fragmentary OCR item notes a Puritan figure or event with a scene of a foe approaching and a power or status laid. It records that someone has been taken in and is successfully aced, with a focus on a nascent achievement and a tense interaction.
Bartley Campbell a noted playwright from Pittsburg is described as a once brilliant but dissipated figure now feared to have mental illness. The piece traces his life from early success with My Partner to later failures and estranged ventures, noting his imagination, financial rise, and eventual decline amid touring productions and personal struggles.
In a sweeping midwestern storm, Kanaas City Missouri and nearby towns endured damaging tornadoes and floods. Xenia Ohio reports twenty six deaths with ten missing, many victims impoverished. The same system spawned fierce floods and tornadoes across Illinois Indiana Kansas and Missouri as it moved eastward.
The first Missouri river bridge at Kansas City, owned by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line, cost 50 000 dollars and withstood floods before the May storm blew the second span away. Telegraph and railroad termini were ruined and Kansas City suffered a terrific tornado.
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