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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1890
Page
3
A narrator in love with Phyllis Brown praises her many charms and languages while confessing financial envy and social mismatch. He recalls flirtations and a rejected proposal after receiving a cold note delaying their meeting. The tale ends with a toast to fate and a teasing mention of Nathan Haskell Dole in Century.
At Woodham, Maisie Colville shows calm resistance while Sam Clarke’s affections grow. Constance Colville schemes to win Sam but Maisie’s engagement with him blossoms after a private veranda moment, leaving Constance determined to press her London charm.
A London house near Marble Arch features a twelve by six by four glass structure atop its roof, revealing a black oblong box inside. Local belief holds a wealthy old owner's bones lie within, buried per his will, while the agent doubts the tale but says the box will stay. Also noted: a sea lion was captured in Suisun, California.
Cor. Omaha World describes Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania as enrolling students from fifty tribes, with a ten year curriculum blending academics and extensive industrial training. It notes daily work, self-sufficient farming, crafts, and craft production by students, plus successful farm and dairy outputs and a strong cultural integration into white society through disciplined schooling.
A Lady’s Home Journal article outlines Araucanian wedding practices in Patagonia. It notes the groom may abduct the bride after elaborate speeches, borrows wealth to pay, and completes the union after two days in the woods. The mother’s eventual aloofness follows a ceremonial hospitality test.
The article notes a balance of security at the Bank of England with doors closed by desk knob and bullion rooms flooded nightly to deter theft. It explains alarms linked to managers’ rooms and a system that sinks pilfered piles of sovereigns, revealing theft instantly. It also includes a Harper's Bazar quote about a fictitious Parkesville city tour.
In a New England village an old Yankee schoolmaster recalls a pre high school era prank with a powerful electric machine. He set up zinc strips in the academy belfry. boys climbed the lightning rod to reach the bell and received a controlled shock when they pulled the rope. The town slept before the Fourth as authorities debated the bell.
A Pasadena Tribune report describes a daytime mirage near North Los Robles avenue and Villa street where a water pool appears south of Villa street at noon on clear days. The illusion results from refraction and reflection of light, with details on how observers in a buggy enhance the effect and how the phenomenon varies with weather and elevation.
A compilation of light humor and wry one liners from Munsey's Weekly, Washington Post, Golden Days, Burlington Free Press, The Epoch, The Brones reception, and other papers. Snappy exchanges cover typewriters, manners, marriage, work, and idle chatter with a satirical edge.
The Boston Post notes that imperial prerogative in Russia is checked by four succession rules and church allegiance. It argues the Czar must rely on others, cannot fully direct a vast empire, and must honor primogeniture, age of majority, church faith, and dynastic consent for issue.
Henry M. Stanley received US citizenship in New York Superior Court on May 15, 1881 after declaring himself American and presenting witnesses. Clerk Thomas Leese recalled Stanley’s claim of always serving in the Union army and traveling from London to New York to complete the naturalization. Stanley swore and produced witnesses before departing for Africa.
The piece recalls a 1864 Confederate Christmas box prepared amid shortages in Virginia. Mammy and family hide hams and spoons from raiders, bake ginger snaps, and fashion preserves from gourds to boost morale as soldiers near Petersburg diet.
A Cassville letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat describes a veteran nicknamed a cremation freak whose body allegedly ossified into marble during cremation near Buzzard Roost. The tale centers on Clayback, a wartime figure with six sons and seven daughters, who suffered chronic rheumatism later in life.
John F. Graham recalls FP X Aubrey riding from Santa Fe New Mexico to Independence Missouri nearly eight hundred miles in five days nineteen hours on a wager of one thousand dollars. Aubrey died after a 1854 Santa Fe saloon stabbing by Major Weightman later killed at Wilson's Creek.
A soldier jailed for striking a captain tries to bribe General Banks with a plan to steal and sell government mules. He offers to withdraw charges against Captain B after a favorable ruling and promises to steal a hundred mules monthly for half the profits, adding a year to his sentence.
The Grand Army plans a statue of General Grant to be placed in the statuary hall of the old House of Representatives in Washington. Ten thousand dollars have been collected for the project. Grand Army posts from Hayfield Washburn Ashland and other northern Wisconsin villages are preparing a monument at a point commanding the entrance to Clequimegia bay.
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