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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1891
Page
2
Fragmentary excerpt presents moral maximes attributed to W. E. B. Alger in Woman's Journal. The garbled lines urge self creation of happiness through personal deeds and choices. Contains scattered phrases about life, duty, and fate, with no clear event or context.
A shy suitor John Anderson courts Mary Beverly after church in New England. He seeks cure for stammering at an institute in Philadelphia, endures hardship and jealousy, returns home to win Mary as they marry in an Episcopal service.
The Chicago Evening Post recounts editor Hyde firing three shots in his office after mistaking a man for an intruder. Bullets struck, leaving one eye lost and another hole through a hat, with Hyde reputedly bluffing amid the gunplay.
A collage of wry vignettes from multiple papers, including quips on women observers, dining cars, color jokes, dental barbs, door knobs, and a Honolulu letter on Hawaiian hospitality. Notable lines reference Yonkers humor, Harvard Lampoon, and Harper's Young People with varied cultural jests and social observations.
A fragment from a New York Herald column sketches Maude in Fifth Avenue Harlem observing roosters fighting and yearning for the little one to win. It cites other brief items on Jewish farming colonies and a humorous Irish servant tale, ending with note on Mrs Craven who wrote late in life after her fortune failed.
A Washington Star article explores Goethe’s two great nature truths the leaf and stem relation in plants and the brain as a brainstem extension. It links these ideas to the growth of scientific thought and parallels with nature and mind as one.
A collage of quips and brief items covers crime taunts and humor, a decayed mix including a burglar threat in dialogue, street anecdotes, coin mint marks, a balloon incident, a stray horse in a Brooklyn candy store, and a grim 1799 death note. It also includes social gossip, a bag party trend, vestibule cars, and a peculiar shoe stretching business origin story.
A collage of children’s tales and seaside play recounts a sunlit afternoon with Amy and Rover discovering a rescued talking doll. The doll narrates Paris and yacht life while Amy learns to apply revive rules amid playful discovery and curious dialogue.
A collage of childlike quips about ambition listening to a cricket and a three year old asking why a sound is heard near a closed garden gate. A bee sting memory prompts a child to tell his mother about comfort and a clover scene in a dooryard.
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