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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1886
Page
3
BUMMERSEVTT and WYANDT Kaltore and Proprietors publish in Van Wert Ohio a notice appearing in the Wert Bulletin. The brief item announces a local business or publication matter with minimal readable details and no further context provided.
A comic Irish pastiche from the New York Independent lampoons a wooing scene. A lively suitor Michael McCray extols music while the heroine taunts and teases him with flirtatious wit. The piece blends rustic dialect with playful banter and romantic bravado.
A historical survey chronicles Bank of England note forgery from the 18th century beginnings led by Richard Vaughan through William Price and John Mathison, detailing methods, arrests, and the evolving security flaws. It traces major frauds including the 1780s lottery note schemes, the 1785 double-issue notes, and later high profile cases like Fauntleroy and exchequer deceptions, highlighting shifts in enforcement and penalties.
A historical account traces major bank fraud cases starting 1824 with Henry Fauntleroy’s arrest and forged powers of attorney, including later schemes by Austin Bidwell and associates. It recounts forgeries, trials, executions, and evolving laws that reduced capital punishment for such crimes, ending with a moral on honesty.
Dill Nye muses on funerals and postmortem plans, arguing health and humor matter. He jokes about cremation as a cheerful alternative, critiques crowded cemeteries, and laments high prices that poor people face, imagining a future where bodies are disposed with wit and practicality.
A meditation on nostalgia as a disease called love of home. It haunts minds despite effort and will, sparked by scents, memories, and melodies. The text cites universal longing across men and diverse regions, including Esquimaux, with homebound yearning shown as a soul illness that resists reason or distraction.
A fragment reflecting longing and exile, noting how a man could endure years away and the pull of the familiar, the refreshing well of home, as homesickness tempers his decisions and path in life.
A San Francisco Chronicle report explains the octroi internal tax in France and Italy. It notes how cities levy duties on goods at entry, raising living costs, and discusses repeal prospects, opposition from cities and the wealthy, and potential tax replacements.
An elderly inventor Crosby created a voting machine to log yeas and nays by electric buttons at each desk. It displayed counts on a dial at the Speaker’s desk and could end long roll call delays. After setbacks including illness and death, Crosby seeks 75000 from the government, though removal is planned.
The Bishop of Oxford praised language as the most beneficial discipline in 1885 Oxford local examinations. He argued few educated youths are shaped by science alone, and understanding language is essential to use it well and mend speech, more valuable than tools, a view echoed by the London Spectator.
The Mystic Number Eleven features in Trieste municipal elections with eleven Liberal candidates in the third ward and eleven in opposition in the fourth ward. The mayor won by 1 111 votes as eleven new councillors include eleven advocates, eleven merchants, and eleven dews.
A collage of quips and vignettes from late 19th century papers. Jests on crime reporting, a New Haven rival, ducks and lead mining, a Descent of Man quip, a reporter’s balance, a gun season quip, pension banter, and a mock model man who is deaf.
A tiny Chicago newsboy at Superior and Clark accepted a coin from a North Side Street Railway officer after delivering a paper. The boy kept the 3-cent piece, smiling that he likes to reward honesty, and the dignified official reddened and walked away.
A humorous vignette titled Dave Black and his education ends with the line Davey’s edlocation was complete. The piece mimics a rural Arkansas traveler’s voice and captures a boy’s clipped dialogue with a schoolteacher. It highlights dialect, family life, and mispronunciations in a light, folksy tone. The boy asserts he can spell “hoss” but not “cow” and quips about his pap’s language.
A Philadelphia Mint captain, Harry E. Rulon, kept a shovel for seven years to transfer silver coins from a levying pan. The worn blade reduced by about an inch and a half, yet he claims to have handled roughly 8582,000,000 in that period. He bought the tool for twenty five cents and now uses it in a coal bin.
A youths companion poem by Sulney Dayre contemplates a girl wishing for a fairy wand to grant household wealth and grand possibilities for her mother. She imagines luxury, but admits she must work, knitting, sewing, cooking, and cleaning. Her two nimble hands symbolize practical virtue over magical shortcuts.
Felix learns a hard lesson when his dog ruins a wrapped gift book entrusted to him. Grandfather insists the loss falls on the careless, and Felix confesses to Mr Gay. The tale expands with a war era memory where carelessness nearly costs seven hundred dollars. The moral: wrong actions hurt others.
A tale of guilt and confession follows a theft of money. A man hides funds, haunted by fear and nocturnal noises, nearly suffocates in a fire, and after rescue confesses to his employers. The moral: face faults at once and learn through faithful small deeds.
The tale of William J. born to poverty, who with grit and piety pursued education. He read by pine lanterns and moonlight, rode thirty miles to a spelling match, opened a school at sixteen, studied Latin and Greek, and despite eye strain and bereavement, graduated with honors and became a college professor. His motto No such word agail guided his life.
A feature contrasts vast New Zealand landscapes with almost no animals or people, describing sparse life, rare cattle, a lone Maori pig, and a pest-free bush. It notes dramatic quiet and untouched beauty, then shifts to a separate report on a timber hardening method called upsetting that compresses whitewood by steaming and end pressure to increase strength.
A New York caterer at a recent dinner placed a statuette opposite each guest. The figures caricatured each guest's tastes and hobbies while preserving a likeness recognizable at a glance.
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