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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1886
Page
3
A narrator recalls a joke as they search a chair for a lost bracelet and stumble upon someone placing a rose in Kitty's hair, revealing an illusion of simplicity and a moment of lighthearted laughter.
The Government employs about four thousand women, mainly in clerical work, across departments. Treasury leads with 1,549 women, including in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. They perform varied duties from accounting and stenography to pat ent examiners, redemption work, and law clerks.
A Tribune report details women employed across Treasury Interior and Post Office departments in 1890s print rooms. It notes manual labor, long hours, piecework pay, and notable salaries including two at 1800 annually in the Treasury, with many others earning from 360 to 1600 dollars, reflecting civil service rules and gender equity in pay for equal work.
Mr. Jacob Van Stein, once a top ostrich breeder, says the trade is played out and he will settle as a farmer. The piece traces ostrich farming from 1865 to its boom years in 1878 to 1880, collapse in 1881, and global decline with prices plummeting.
A collage from home and farm pages offering practical tips. Advice covers cleaning cups with scouring brick, cattle feeding debates on ensilage, the turkey’s need for wide foraging range, and cooking ideas. Also includes recipes for Soda Cake and Stuffed Potatoes, plus notes on corn nitrogen, milk handling, sanitation in horse care, and pearl wheat porridge.
A collage of observations from American consuls notes immigrants in Argentina cannot naturalize, Bolivia lacks factories, U S trade with Bolivia minimal, Quebec gold yet unused, American goods in Ceylon, wide use of American tools, Danish farm wages low, Bordeaux chocolate output, German tobacco decline, Russia adopting American railways, Swiss strong labor focus, Basle burial policy to ease distress, and Lake Dias in Florida fed by a bubbling spring near Delcon Springs with plans to anchor a buoy for accessible cool water.
Harper's Bazar surveys spring and summer dress trends with long draperies and extended skirts. It notes six back plaits, new basque shapes, laced fronts, velvet collars, and bold drapings designed to lengthen the silhouette while keeping a luxury finish.
A Marshfield area tale profiles Fred Grube born in Hanover in 1526 whose swashbuckling career includes forced service in Holstein Denmark, a court martial escape, service in the England Legion, Crimea battles, Holland spying, capture and multiple escapes, Civil War service, wounds in twenty seven places, a stay in Andersonville, pension refusal, and current farming near Auburndale.
A Glenville Ohio mayoral tale profiles L E Holden a Michigan graduate who writes a playful yet pointed proclamation. He jokes of poetry resembling Philadelphia's mayor and seeks to improve prosperity while enforcing odd town rules on circuses cattle and street mischief. The Burlington Free Press notes Glenville supports Holden over Smith.
A collage of oddities and local notes including a circus bear in Greensburg eating pigs, a man named Ellis Reinhart described as Pennsylvania’s smallest, deformed pigs with twin hearts, a wildcat killing chickens, free range Chinese pheasants in Oregon, and various short anecdotes about local life, medicine ads, and a humorous classroom exchange. The items reference multiple places such as Greensburg Pennsylvania Hoxawottamie Ga Newton Factory Georgia and others with a light editorial tone.
Mr Dolph Hotchkiss of Peoria Illinois recounts a December incident where severe ankle pain kept him from stairs, prompting a slide on the railing. After months of suffering and failed remedies, he credits Athlophoros with alleviating pain and swelling within days and claims four bottles cured his rheumatism, ending crutch use and future rail rides.
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