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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1891
Page
2
A rustic reminiscence narrates a veteran Gabe marching home under drums and bugle calls. The speaker recalls a wife at the cabin, a volunteering child, and a village scene where marching music stirs prayers, memories, and the vow to endure till the cannon’s noise subsides.
An excerpted tale from Oregon County reveals Ira Tincher running off to Arkansas to wed a widow, while Sarah Barnes remains on the farm. Old Jim Barnes travels to warn her, but she questions the truth as the pair faced a broken, late nineteenth century romance amid farm life and small-town expectations.
In a spring tale from Oregon County a young farmhand Ira Tincher woos Sarah while she awaits a fiancé. Old Barnes fends off rivals with a pistol as tensions rise, ending with Ira fatally shot in a climactic confrontation. Sarah survives as Barnes faces life in prison and Abe Hochstetler’s wronged kin are left behind.
Two African farmers on a mountain hunt wounded a leopard with a snub-nosed rifle in a ravine. The beast attacked both men. the first hunter died after being mauled on the face and head. The second hunter tried to shoot the leopard but failed. the leopard killed him as the two rolled down a slope. The dying leopard was destroyed by the surviving hunter. Astonishing a Drammer is also reported, about a Cincinnati drummer attacked by a traveling salesman who seized his clothes and a writ of attachment for thirty seven dollars and seventy five cents.
Practical tips for crafting attractive, affordable trellises at home. The article urges readers to build simple supports fastened to stout stakes and trained vines to enhance yards and gardens, noting many readers cannot afford dealer models and promising easy, tasty, workable designs.
The article describes DIY trellis construction using stakes, hoops, and frames, plus spiral wrapping and painting ideas. It then shifts to chunky farm guidance on feeding roots to stock, mixing pulped roots with cut feed, fermenting bins, and milking timing. It closes with observations on intelligent creamery patrons and a simple wagon-tire drag for smoothing corn ridges.
A vivid protest against idleness argues that killing time harms society and personal virtue. It urges immediate labor, cites England’s queen for urgency, and envisions future leaders rising from work. Endorses reading, teaching, and productive effort over idle pleasure.
A mix of domestic tips and essays appears in the page. Corn relief using turpentine wraps, cake and pastry recipes from the Boston Budget and Detroit Free Press, and notes on cheese making and asparagus. An essay outlines what a man reads and how depth matters more than volume, plus a curious tale about crow longevity and branding.
The survey notes Brazil's 1891 93 coffee crop at 4.5 to 5 million bags and rising. It cites tobacco growth in British North Borneo, flaxseed exports from Argentina reaching 40 to 80 thousand tons annually, with Britain and the United States as major destinations. It also mentions Punjab rape seed acreage up 113 thousand acres, wheat area expanding by over a million acres, and Sweden’s small farms. Additional facts compare country sizes and discuss eclectic domestic curios and products.
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