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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1877
Page
4
A fragmentary verse notes a solitary figure on a desert island awaiting a death unknown, as waves of memory and fear shape a life of waiting. The poem describes a castaway arriving at a tree built house and the strangers who learn of a life endured and the tears shed for an unfulfilled hope.
A tale of Reuben Eden and Ada Romer ends in tragedy when a quarrel over control leads to a churchman’s ruin as a fire destroys the Romer mansion. Ada survives a city of ashes, saved by a servant, while Eden recovers and later reconciles with Ada who returns in disguise.
Mr J S Long of Jasper County shares hog raising tips from the West Liberty stock convention citing a soap lye copperas treatment to force hogs to drink. He says to repeat cold baths and dosing weekly to cure or kill non drinkers, offering ten cents a pound for every hog not cured if still drinkable on intake.
A dialectal quip from old Si discusses whether Democrats should seize offices from Hayes. The Cleveland style cartoonish exchange imagines political power shifts and humorous lines about feeding hungry voters and colts that whinny for a sine before moving on.
October 17 marks the 100th anniversary of Burgoyne’s defeat at Saratoga as supporters push to lay a corner stone for a commemorative monument. A 1864 New York law pledged $100,000 toward the shaft if a matching sum was raised, a goal not met, prompting a petition to obtain the state funds despite the shortfall.
A Chinawoman was sold by her husband to a fellow countryman in California for $250. She remained healthy at first but became ill and disabled, and the purchaser killed her with a cleaver, according to the report.
The President invites the rival Governor of South Carolina to a personal consultation and sends a commission to Louisiana to assess conditions and prepare a peaceful, satisfactory path forward, aiming for just and considered action acceptable to all fair minds.
Engineers explain the process to raise a 22 million pound bridge cable. Four cables total, each with six thousand No 7 steel wires weighing 22,800,000 pounds. Wires laid singly, strands bound by compression and steel bands to form 15 inch diameter cores.
A small blaze occurred in Scranton when sun rays reflecting off a citizen’s nose focused on a frame shed. The owner, not a temperance member, argued that a little wine for the stomach’s sake would harm no one.
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