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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1891
Page
4
Fragmentary lines recount a moonlit scene with a bright night and a priest, mentioning Katy in varying actions and a refrain about wedlock. The text reads like a poetic folk fragment with incomplete phrases and repeated N/A references.
An unnamed narrator recalls a cold foggy evening aboard a streetcar when a woman loses her purse containing her money. The conductor presses payment, the narrator covers the fare and gifts the two transfers to a young woman. Later a card from Mr and Mrs Carman prompts the narrator to ponder meeting the upper-class family to satisfy curiosity about the handwriting and day.
An essay argues western Asia as a cradle of ancient states and trade networks. It notes early organized societies with walls chariots and riches in Akkadia Egypt Phoenicia and Palestine, predating Hebrew patriarchs and ancient mythic timelines.
Prof. S A Forbes of the University of Illinois explains the Hessian fly has two to four generations yearly with the first spring brood causing most damage. Larvae injure wheat by feeding at the base of the sheaths while the flaxseed stage is a transition. Prevention includes burning stubble and flaxseeds, destroying volunteer grain, delaying fall sowing, and careful field management to strengthen plants.
The November Wide Awake advertises The Boyhood of Hawthorne by Mrs Rich ard Manning of Salem and Nolan a ballad by Mrs Laura E Richards. It also features Five Little Peppers Grown Up, stories by Margaret Spencer and Kate Upson Clark, poems and more. Prices listed.
The notice reports the death of Mrs. Thurman wife of a prominent Ohio senator illustrating Grippe fatalities. It promotes Reid's German Cough and Cure as a remedy for lingering coughs post illness and urges households to keep it on hand with sales through druggists. The Sylvan Remedy Co. of Peoria IL is cited as advertiser.
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