27 Mar 1891
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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1891
Page
1
A reflective poem contrasts the hourglass and youth. It recalls Mabel learning to play while a mother teaches, warning that time slips away. The speaker urges awareness of each hour and hope that youth may endure and be consciously lived. The piece includes a dated tone and references to Amerie.
A young woman earns praise for her courageous act to protect fellow students, focusing on courage and loyalty in a wartime school setting. The piece highlights the selfless choice she made to safeguard classmates and the impact on local morale.
In a western tale Cap daugh ter Vi rides to warn her rescuers a treacherous Sioux ambush. Captain and Jack Bently save Vi and the patrol. Red Hand falls as Vi and her love unite amid the ravine battle and gunfire.
In midwinter the rugged mail carriers trek on snowshoes across the Rocky Mountains delivering letters and packages to frontier mining camps. They face avalanches, storms, and brutal cold while carrying 25 pounds of mail in pocket-sized pouches, with some perishing in snow slides. Swan Nilson, a Swede from Silverton to Ophir, vanished in 1863 and was found two years later beneath a snowbank with the pouch and Christmas mail still strapped to his back.
A survey of stellar distances and light speed explains how early astronomers misread the heavens. Roemer’s observations of Jupiter’s eclipses yield light’s travel time across the Earth’s orbit about 16 minutes, modern estimates place light at roughly 186000 miles per second.
A jumble of short items covers Balboa's Pacific discovery in 1513, diary beginnings, humorous exchanges, marriage broker quips, and odd tales. Notes include a Syracuse street horse tale, a Chinaman at the immigration line, an Amiens circus seizure, Talleyrand in London, Juan Fernandez folly, steam horse cleaning at Palmer House stables, a convict marriage anecdote, and Alaskan mosquito and bear observations by Scribner.
A Woman’s Column discusses American beauty and the value of native rural types versus socialite standards. It argues genuine charm comes from humble origins and character, not glamorous city circles, praising rural and professional accomplishments of women and noting notable female leaders and appointments.
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