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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1886
Page
7
A poem praising a steadfast, duty rooted man who trusts in God and endures suffering. It extols the record of a dauntless soul loyal to right, patient under cross, and brave in hardship, worthy of love and a bay wreath. The speaker lauds moral courage above status or creed.
The article traces lace making in the Hartz mountains from its Dutch and Flemish origins to Barbara Uttmann who popularized bobbin lace in Annaberg. It details family workshops, school training, and wage trends, notes the rise of mechanized lace, and celebrates Uttmann's craft legacy with memorials and historical inscriptions.
A Chicago letter reports Americans in Mexican towns probing markets with sewing machines, electric lights, wagons, carriages, plows, and various goods. The writers claim these agents and tourists enjoy reasonable success in the Republic.
The Chicago Inter Ocean was quoted saying there is no marriageable woman in Deming New Mexico a barbed remark reflecting social attitudes of the era.
The column notes Baron Rothschild’s abstinence, Duke of Portland’s vast ground rents, and a London doctor’s mortality study vs other professions. It details a glass bedstead for a Calcutta millionaire, mild Arran climate, Algiers harvest lighting, Irish spending on drink, military line length of European powers, Arnold Morley’s Liberal profile, Italian fish hatchery experiments, and climbs of Mount Bogong and Kosciuszko with glacier clues.
The Golconda mines in Raolconda long owned by the English are now abandoned after enormous output. Brazilian fields in Minas Geraes and Bahia yielded millions in carats, with 1850s to 1860s production and price figures. Discoveries in Bahia and Minas Geraes shifted markets, while South Africa's 1867 finds changed global diamond trade.
Frederick Stearns displays two coco de mer specimens in his office, sent by E. V. Massey the U S Consul at the Seychelles. The palm reaches about 100 feet, bears a double nut weighing 30 to 40 pounds per half, with a four hundred pound bunch. Trees are threatened by leaf harvests though one island reportedly holds thousands.
The article traces the link between engraving and silversmithing pursuing the discovery of Niello work and Maso Finiguerra’s print 1452. It discusses whether engraving on paper from metal existed earlier, the Pax of Assumption, and the shift from sulphur casts to paper proofs as the origin of modern engraving.
The piece compares cradle tales and legends across cultures from Tunis to Europe and India. It recounts how a Tunis Bey judged two Bedouins over a stray cow, illustrating a tale of property and punishment as a folk example. It notes storytellers from the Black Forest to Indian grandmothers passing down myths across generations.
A collection of period cooking and farm tips including Rice Fritters, Coffee Jelly, strawberry beds, Scalloped Meats and other home remedies. Also notes on poultry yard cleanliness, horse care with brine applications, and a Farmers' Cake recipe with pork, raisins and spices drawn from Toledo Blade Western Rural Boston Globe Albany Journal and other papers.
The article explains methods to prevent and combat moths and buffalo moths. It covers sealing furs and woolens in bags, using camphor, cedar, or tobacco among packed garments, sealing carpets, applying benzine, steaming with water and iron, fumigation with sulfur, and using pyrethrum for common moths while buffalo moths resist most remedies. It notes benzine and kerosene as effective but inflammable.
The Lewis Globe-Democrat reports a historic lumber raft started in June 1867, measuring 1 100 000 feet and costing 2500 plus pilots. Thirty men sailed it from Wisconsin to New Orleans with three pilots, viewed by thousands after Vicksburg, and officials met the fleet at New Orleans. The raft sparked a price rise in St Louis when returned by barge and rail.
A Rural New Yorker cornet explains ten years of potato culture shifting from manure and marl to chemical fertilizers. It details marl's effect on tuber quality, three application methods, and the profitability of mixing marl with manure or using high grade fertilizer with careful drill and planter techniques.
The article argues for using soluble substances like gypsum and common salt in farming. It explains that gypsum acts slowly while salt acts quickly, with salt improving soil moisture retention and plant uptake of silica. It cites experiments showing salt can boost yields, such as a Minnesota region test raising sixty acres from twelve to eighteen and two thirds bushels per acre with two hundred pounds per acre, equating to about one dollar more value per ton.
A newly published music trade directory names over four thousand professional musicians and six thousand firms in the trade in the United States. The graphic reference underscores the breadth of the musical profession and industry listings.
A Georgia postmaster’s four daughters named Peart Diamond Ruby and Garnet are noted. A Tacoma boy catches a seven foot sturgeon. Dubuque’s Josery Bero claims a pair of shears once used by Andrew Johnson. Michigan opens a goose quill whalebone substitute factory. An Indianapolis man aims to build a mammoth natural gas balloon carrier. A Walton County Georgia woman owns a 170 year old rolling pin. Dakota houses two judges named Church old and new. A drugstore explosion in Ironton Ohio leaves a man dead. A Birmingham convict escapes a coal shaft via a long wire cable. German cars led to 200 million carp released in U S waters. Chico Creek trout clog a mill turbine. A large sea lion and sturgeon clash near Martinez California. A Millview Virginia man reports a moccasin with a Don’t tread on me button. This Friday year warns of 53 Fridays and five months with five Fridays.
Washington correspondent recalls Delegate Raymond of Dakota who died early in the year. Raymond was the last to see General McPherson alive at Atlanta and was captured by Confederate horsemen. He posed as the dead man to gain exchange at Andersonville, then returned to service.
A promotional passage touts Athlophoros sold by the dozen and names various cures. It lists a druggist Baldwin of Warren Illinois and claims quick results for rheumatism gout and eye issues with products like Pike's Toothache Drops Glenn's Sulphur Soap and Dr Isaac Thompson's Eye Water.
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