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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1887
Page
2
A reflective poem by Tinie B. Saxton in centers aapasine contemplates the churchyard scene. The speaker recalls mourners and departed souls, describing silent graves, moonlit headstones, and the ache of memory. The poem questions who the dead were and if the living can recall their lives, ending with a resolve that life ends in sorrow yet memories endure.
In a Northeastern village, Miss Betty survives a devastating flood when the dam breaks and a younger romance unfolds. May Perkins arrives, John McIntosh's attention shifts to May, and Miss Betty confronts aging, memory, and longing as the town endures a night of rising waters.
A diamond merchant recalls a truth telling office boy named Ted who found a purse containing about a thousand dollars and papers. Ted returned the bag to the merchant then escorted to a Fifth Avenue customer who had lost it. The reward was not cash but a large piece of huckleberry pie. The tale ends with the grateful owner praising the boy’s honesty.
Hon William Dudley Foulke argues for equal voting rights for women citing property, family interests, and child protection as reasons. Articles cover attendants in Indiana insane asylum run by women, and Chicago women forming a Temperance Building Association to fund a national HQ and rental office building with bonds.
In Concord this year an eighty three year old woman, a devoted Emerson admirer, traveled far with limited funds. She lived frugally, bringing a spirit lamp and simple meals to attend lectures, and wandered woods at noon. She fainted from heat and malnutrition after eating a toadstool misidentified as mushroom, a misfortune she bore along with her love of lectures.
A compilation of achievements by women including Muss Moone E. Forsont joining Brookings Agricultural College faculty in Dakota, Frances Mirae editing Our Home Corner, Mrs Gorr securing town treasurer post, and women writers and educators gaining prominence. Also notes Miss Mantan E. Sheldon as the first Moslem girl admitted to a Turkish girls’ school, Boston working-women organizing, and calls for equal pay and training to empower female labor.
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